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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They choose to keep their freshman classes small."

Yet when a college with a finite campus expands with satellite options (Northeastern), we lose our minds.

Some top schools could expand if they tossed up new dorms and made classes bigger, but the experience wouldn't be the same.

If more people expanded the idea of what "elite" was, they might include more of the big state universities that definitely have room for their kid.[/quote]

Yes, the experience would not/is not the same.  NEU is a good school, but most applying have no interest in attending NEU Oakland/Mills college for 4 years.  Most have much better options for them and take it.  And NEU just grows without putting infrastructure in place. 
Harvard would not be Harvard if they had 10K undergrads and they do not need to become that.  There are plenty of great schools in the USA if you stop being obsessed with attending a "T25" school.  Apply, hope you get into one, but if not have several backups to choose from, because you will likely be attending one. 
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DCUM loves to hate on certain schools- doesn’t make DCUM accurate.

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So you'd send your kid to NEU Oakland/mills college if that's what they were offered?  Versus attending Rochester, Wake forest, cWRU, W&M, Boston U, WPI, Tufts, etc?  You would consider NEU Oakland to be equivalent to NEU Boston and just go with the flow for the "NEU Name"?

I'm not the anti-NEU booster.  But I'm sure as hell smart enough to recognize the facts: they have grown too rapidly to support the students on campus and there are no real signs of change.  Both my kids considered it, and one more is, so I follow what is happening.  I'd feel the same way if Harvard or MIT did something similar (and my kids were interested).

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Surely you do not wish to turn this into a NEU hate thread, but my short answer is yes.  Also, there are a couple schools you mentioned for which I would not do so. [/quote]

Okay, so you think NEU Oakland is the same quality as NEU Boston.  Interesting.

Yet if Harvard or MIT did it you wouldn't feel the same way.  Very interesting[/quote]

This process of starting up satellite campuses works pretty well for the UC system. The new campuses aren’t highly regarded right off the bat but they gain ground. There are now 6 UC campuses in the top 35. [/quote]

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