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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop with the “brilliant marketing”. Many colleges have been doing this for many years. 
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I'm not the NEU booster---I actually think it's an overhyped university.  Good school, but not nearly as good as they hype has made it in the last 5-8 years.  So yes, it is the "Brilliant marketing" that is getting it there.  They have convinced 90K kids that NEU should be on their college list and the fact there are no supplemental essays is a huge part of this.  And they sell the NUIn/NUBound program really well, as is evidenced by people on the Parents FB pages who can see that the program isn't really the best for their kid and see the obvious flaws, yet are trying to hard to justify paying $75K+ food and other expenses for the opportunity, despite the major flaws for their kids (ie. not having any valuable courses to take for most of the year).  THat's the definition of good marketing. 
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Agree to disagree. It’s the common app, no supplement essays. Just one click.
 (I have a niece who graduated from this program and a DS who took advantage of a similar program elsewhere) [/quote]

Most of the schools have a supplemental essay about 'why our school' which isn't really a big thing. 
Higher ranked school like Case Western doesn't have supplement essay either, but it's acceptance rate and yield rate is way lower than Northeastern.
Why?    because it's a combination of many factors that applicants consider.

If applicants add Northeastern because easy application, then it's yield should be low, however it's exactly the opposite. 
It's yield rate is going up which in fact caused over enrollment for the past a couple of years.  It means students not jus apply but actually choose to attend.

Then again once they attend, they stay because they are satisfied with the education, service, experience, and bright career placement.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Northeastern is below only 5 schools - MIT, UChicago, John's Hopkins, Northwestern, Notre Dame.
It's it's a hype, it can't be this high LOL

NUIn/Bound is an optional offer instead of rejection. A lot of schools have similar programs.
It could be a great option for some students. If you have a better option, simply pass. 
Looks like someone got really offended and obsessed by this LOL.

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Case's yield is lower because it's in Cleveland and not Boston.  Drop Case into Boston and they wouldn't have a yield issue, IMO.   Visited both and there is no comparison to the locations.  Boston is a college town, and that makes all schools their very attractive.  It's also tech hub that many would want to work in after college, cleveland not so much (may have tech, but certainly not a place that as many people want to actual stay in)

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Location is certainly an important factor.  
However there are many mediocre schools in good locations and many selective schools in shitty locations.
So yes as I said it's a combination of many things. 
Northeastern took good advantage of the location, and turned it into a very attractive selective school.
NYU is another case. There are many schools in NYC, but not all are as successful as NYU.

[b]Kids these days prefer urban setting schools in general[/b].
One of my kids applied to all urban schools except one, but end up choosing the only non-urban school considering all things.

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DP.  No, they don’t.  Your kids might, but many others prefer suburban or rural settings, with traditional campuses.  [/quote]

Kids that want an urban campus are very odd because it in no way delivers the classic college experience. Dumps like BU, NEU, NYU, etc are horrendous conglomerations of random buildings with no cohesive campus, no school spirit, no shared culture……just humorless diploma mills for wealthy foreign students and Americans with no imagination.[/quote]

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