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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…[/quote]

Great episode confirming a few of my suspicions. You can almost see it on our hs’s Scattergrams. I think they grab these full pay kids with 1200s on the SAT but TO. The yield is sky high for this cohort. [/quote]

I just listened to this.  I can't believe that Northeastern only counts the admit rate to their Boston campus to make the admit rate seem a lot lower than it is.  It seems that most kids get admitted through the other transfer options.[/quote]

Makes sense. Northeastern is synonymous with the Boston campus.  No one cares about Oakland or London.

One can quibble about the admit tactics, but it's obviously evident that it's Boston campus is a popular and desirable location for admission.[/quote]

When you apply, do you have a choice in the matter?  Or are you just told " congrats you have been accepted to the Oakland campus"?   I'm a mom of a junior and so all of this is very new.[/quote]

You don’t really have a choice.  They ask “are you willing to be off Boston campus freshman year” but it’s largely ignored.

If neu is your top choice nuin and global scholars are a viable way to get there.  Just know what you are getting into.  
The parents Fb page currently has 2 + posts about parents complaining their nuin kdid did not adjust well.  Several are planning to transfer, and are asking “when did it get better for your kid”
  Got housed with people they didn’t know, often upperclassmen because that’s who goes on coop.  There’s even an upper-class parent complaining their kid got some of those Jan freshman and it did not go well.  So just know the facts going in—housing can be a bit rough and transitional. 
Me personally I cannot imagine my kid doing well with a semester abroad then being assigned housing with random strangers for Jan in Boston.  So they turned down their NUIn offer and chose somewhere else.

Also know that with the economy the way it is, coops are much more challenging to get.  If tech companies are layingoff people they likely are not hiring coops.  So you have to work extremely hard to find coops now, and might not succeed [/quote]

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