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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Nice summary.

DD will likely apply this fall.

Thanks.

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I grew up near Boston and can’t believe Northeastern is being talked about this way. I’m sure it’s changed but give me a break. It wasn’t  that long ago it was a commuter school. Like an urban George Mason that has also grown.  They must have someone in admissions on this blog. It’s not a bad school it’s just not even close to being in the realm of some of the schools being compared. [/quote]

You need to go way back to talk about it being a commuter school.  Same with Boston College.  
I don’t know why people need to compare the schools.  There are schools all over the country that used to be something else.   Does it have a strong program that the student is interested in should matter.  Who cares where they rank in retention rate or whatever.  [/quote]

Boston college was never a commuter school. Never.[/quote]

Really?

From BC website

&quot;Boston College was founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to educate Boston’s predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community. It opened its doors on September 5, 1864, in a building on Harrison Avenue in Boston’s South End, a “small streetcar college” for commuting students.&quot;[/quote]

Facts and citations  &gt; DCUM trolls[/quote]

Nope…real person sick of this thread[/quote]

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