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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now that the hater troll is banned, here's a grand summary of why it's popular for those who are curious and interested.

- Great urban location, there are tons of kids who prefer good urban locations. Boson is one of the top destinations.

- 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 the top choice for all of us for the location + campus combination.  However if you like more of a traditional looking larger campus in a remote location, it's not for you.  Visit the schools before making a choice.

- Satisfaction level based on retention rate. It's #3 together with Columbia, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Rice, etc.  Of course there might be people complaining about this and that, but you can see it's simply amazing.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

- Graduation rate is also great, #29 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/

- Good balance. The school pays 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 the outcome is great on par or better than many T25ish schools such as Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Rice, WashU, Emory, etc.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

- It's famous for COOP but don't get it wrong. It's a research university first and plenty of research opportunities.
There are only 39 R1 private universities in the US, and Northeastern is one of hem. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States

- Quality of student body - smart, intelligent, independent, motivated, top notch, most of them have stats for T25ish schools.  #25 including LACs Based on average SAT when scores were mandatory in 2018.  Student body is also very diverse. 
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10

- No football team and Greek life is relatively weak, but it has a very good D1 hockey team and has a little bit of everything for everyone.
https://youtu.be/-yT83Ns1cAo?si=CjYgJt-A0RA3ux2T&t=497

- etc.

Of course a school can't be for everyone and fit is important. If your school must have a football team or Greek Life dominant culture, it's not for you.  It's not one or two factors that can make a school popular, it's a combination of many good things put together.  [/quote]

Why are we allowing this over the top advertising over and over again? This is the most bizarre over compensation for an average school I have ever seen. Moderator, please ban this poster and put us out of our misery.[/quote]

I'm not sure if OP was really one of them, but there are people genuinely wondering and interested.
Hater tolls have been sabotaging the thread. Hope you are not one of the trolls.
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