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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've got a kld heading to Northeastern this fall.  I am very excited about the program and opportunities there (and I think my kid is too!).  The housing stuff outlined above is concerning, but I think most colleges/universities have issues which arise from time to time.  My older kid is at William and Mary, and the parent Facebook pages are full of complaints about different things (poor food/food availability, unhappiness with the dorms, problems with registering for classes, etc.).  My alma mater, a small, very selective liberal arts college, is having its own housing issues as the incoming freshman class is apparently much bigger than usual.  Virginia Tech had enormous problems with housing a few years ago.  Ultimately, almost no experience is going to be perfect, and hopefully the housing issues PP details above either work themselves out or are only short-term problems for any one kid. [/quote]

Yes, housing issues is not unique to NEU or any other school.  However, similarly, I wouldn't have sent my kid to VAtech when they had the major housing issues a few years ago.  Basically, know your facts and make informed decisions.  If the housing at NEU doesn't bother you then go for it.  However in Boston, it's not cheap or easy to find alternatives and NEU is still holding to the "live on campus freshman & sophomore years" requirement.  So it's not like you have an alternative.

My own kid would not do well in a dorm room with only 60 sq ft of space, not incredibly picky (their College just has basic dorms, nothing fancy but they are all over 100 sq ft per student, some even larger).  For 80K/year, I'd prefer to start at a school that is not currently overcrowded, as it's not just housing that has issues when there's overcrowding.  My kid found a perfect school for them where getting into classes you want also does not appear to be much of an issues.  If I check the course schedule for last 2 years, very few Lectures are at 100% capacity---labs and recitations are but there were still sections with availability.  Having already experienced college with 3 older kids, I know how stressful it can be to constantly fight to get the courses you actually need for your major at the times you need them (so you can take the next course in a sequence on time as well). And by fight I'm not talking, "man I don't want to take X at 8am or have any friday classes or have Professor ABC they suck", 
I'm talking "I need Y this semester and there is NO space and I'm on the waitlist" or "I registered and have only 2 of the 5 classes I need for Spring semester.  I am only registered for 6 credits because everything else is full".  I know life is not perfect, but if we are paying $80K/year, I expect my kid to be able to register for meaningful courses when they need them. [/quote]

My kid is majoring in CS which is one of the most popular majors.
Registration and taking courses turned out very fine. 
I think it's at least better than the crowded public schools.

She had to share a double room with two roommages wich was not desireable, but she would have made the same choice of school.
They admitted significantly less students this year, this will resovle majority of the problem, and hope she gets better dorm situation in the 2nd year.

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Good to hear about registration for classes! Yes, large state schools are worse, and that's why my own DC has no plans to attend any school that big--NEU was pushing the size limit for DC.  
Hope she hears about her sophomore dorm situation soon, but I've heard it might not happen until late June.  [/quote]

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