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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC making a decision soon but I'm puzzled how this school seemed to come out of nowhere onto the top of most student lists here (one of the W schools). I get that their acceptance rate has dropped to 1 to 2% and that can drive a fomo feeding frenzy but what also is causing this?[/quote]

[b]One reason that they get so many applications is that it’s a very easy to apply to school with a simple check mark on the common app.[/b] Most better schools require additional essays. [/quote]

This.[/quote]

Yup!  Pay the fee and hit submit.  Easy to do for a school in Boston which is a great college town. NEU definately markets well to get the apps near 100K this year.  It's a good school but has grown rapidly and is still catching up.  If you don't start on the Boston Campus fall freshman year your kid is at a disadvantage for housing. [/quote]

That is actually yet another piece of misinformation. [/quote]

Please tell me how this is "misinformation"?  The parents pages currently have several posts of Global Scholars parents realizing that their kids did not get to select housing until the very bottom of the barrel (after all other students). They are considered transfer students. So yes, maybe NUIn are treated the same since they are "spring start".  But GS kids are treated differently.  That is fact.  And when they started NUBound (what is now GS), initially those kids were not even going to ever get housing on campus, but they relented when parents complained.  I know because my kid was part of that. 
 
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I feel bad for you that you were rejected and feel the need to come here regularly to rant, but I refuse to feed you facts, when you have clearly no first hand knowledge of your pet topic. [/quote]

I'm not the OP.  However, my kid was not rejected.  They were admitted to GS/NUBound in a year where many fewer students were admitted due to the miscalculated yield the year before (way more students chose to attend than NEU anticipated---because yield calculation is not a guaranteed science).   Sorry that you do not want to believe the facts about housing issues for current GS students (1st year fully off main campus).  [/quote]

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