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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.
- [b]Sports and Greek life is relatively weak, but it has very good D1 hockey team and have little bit of everything for everyone.[/b]
- etc.

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

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This sockpuppet is getting tiring.

The bolded is one of many reasons this school sucks according to my kid. He wanted football weekends and got to an elite school with great football. We actually appreciated that because we would travel to see him on those weekends. Northeastern is lackluster and sad by comparison.  PS, DC did not apply so don't say we were rejected lol.
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Understandable, of course Northeastern is not for everyone.
If football and greek life are high priorities, it's not a school for you.

However three are also ton of people who think those are not high priorities at all, thus schools like NYU and Northeastern are insanely popular.  Besides, you get a lot of sporting options in places like NYC and Boston, thus people care less about college football.[/quote]

Correct, where prestige and job prospects take priority over school spirit and sports, northeastern shines. It's why students choose NEU over Cornell, MIT, etc. There are zero cases of people choosing a Michigan for example over Cornell and MIT.[/quote]

Notre Dame has prestige and great sports and a stronger alumni network than NEU. You don't have to give up prestige for school spirit and sports. ND vs. NEU:

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Northeastern+University&with=University+of+Notre+Dame
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One of my kids is in ND. Excellent school and my kid is doing great. However you have to give up location. Also sports is not important for many people and they prefer good location/urban environment. Northeastern is relatively very well balanced overall.[/quote]

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