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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given that over 100,000 students apply annually, many disagree with you.   But hey, you do you - that they are living rent free in your head does say something about you though[/quote]

100,000 students apply because they want to go to school in Boston (a great city for college students), NEU misleads itself as a selective institution, and if you tour NEU they send you a waiver for a free application (they did this for our DS) and then the application on the Common App requires zero supplemental essays. So it's a bit of mindless but relatively easy work to fill out. My son toured and didn't think it was a great fit for him but he wanted to attend college in Boston, and the application was free and easy. So he'd get counted in their "high demand" but no it's just easy and no cost to apply.[/quote]

This 1000%

NEU is a good school.  Their marketing is brilliant, as they manage to make $$$ off the "Spring start/first year abroad or elsewhere" by making you attend their programs (most other schools just have spring start or guaranteed fall sophomore transfer, but you don't attend their schools before that).

And yes, no supplementals and being in Boston (which is a great place to spend 4 years in college) and free application for many is a way to ensure tons of applications....what do you have to loose?  No extra work and at most a $75 application fee.

But talk to students and parents of current students.  NEU has grown very fast without NEU having proper plans in place for all the required infrastructure.  How great is the coop program when your kid applies to 250+ places and gets no interviews (and these are kids with 3.8+ GPAs at NEU)?  
It's becoming difficult to find coops in the last 3 years (partly due to economy and also due to an additional 4-5K students on campus searching the same network for coops).  
When my kid was accepted to "first year abroad" the program was offered but not fully planned yet.  My engineering major would only have had 1 calculus course to take that first year (in spring semester) because nothing else was offered (only calc 1 and 2 were offered in fall semester).  Who becomes an engineering major without taking calculus fall freshman year (HINT: no one should do that it's the basis of the major). Same for Chemistry (as a Chem Eng major).  So we smartly decided it wasn't the best program for our kid.  But the parents pages were filled with parents trying to justify joining this program despite all the issues with academics the first year and questioning if they should choose another option (most of them did just like my kid and selected another acceptance).  
But we were not paying $85K for first year (no dining/food included in that, so in reality it would be $95K plus airfare), to not have meaningful courses to take that would keep my kid on track to graduate in 5 years with 2-3 coops.  The only way to stay on track might have been to take multiple courses in the summer sessions---and I don't believe most STEM courses (think Orgo, Calc3/4 and more) are the best courses to take in a 5-6week session to actually learn the material[/quote]

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