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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a combination of many good things that makes the school popular.

- Great urban location, there are ton of kids who prefer good urban location. Boson is also one of the most popular
- Relatively cohesive nice modern looking campus for an urban location
Our family of 5 visited the four peer schools - Tufts, Boston College, Boston Univ, and Northeastern Univ, and Northeastern was top choice for all of us for the location + campus combination.
- Satisfaction level based on retention rate. It's like top 5 among national universities.
- Good balance. The school pay much attention to CS, Engineering, Science and other STEM areas, but also very strong in Business, Art & Design, pre-med, and other areas. It's well rounded unlike other Engineering heavy schools
- Outcomes. Coop program contributes to this, but ultimately outcome is great on par or better than many T25ish schools
- Quality of student body - smart, intelligent, independent, motivated, top notch, most of them have stats for T25ish schools.
- Sports and Greek life is relatively weak, but it has very good D1 hockey team and have little bit of everything for everyone.
- etc.

It's not one or two factors that can make a school popular.

This.

And NEU is intentional in wanting to be a global campus. With over 98,000 applications, they can be picky for all programs.

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Agree.  It seems the parents that come here really thought that their kid would be admitted, for some reason.  Now, since they were not admitted, it is their life's mission to come to DCUM every few weeks and try to repeat their weak arguments.  I certainly hope none of the OPs, and those like them, are lawyers! All of their "arguments" have been disproved several times by people in the (actual) know, to their dismay.

You learn so much about people on even the most ridiculous DCUM threads. Like attracts like. Hi Marcy!

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