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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern received 105,000 applications. It also committed $511 million in need based aid compared to 2019, when they committed $296 million in need based aid.

This guy is worth every penny. On the YCBK podcast they said Northeastern is the gold standard for how a university should be run and that it's model is being studied at B schools. McKinsey uses its model to reform other colleges.

When you have colleges as diverse as UChicago, Middlebury, Xavier and American U running into problems, it makes sense to stay ahead of the curve.

Georgia Tech asked Northeastern for help in designing its co-op program, Vanderbilt is opening up a NYC campus.

It really is a case where you adapt or die.

A lot of their appeal is the revival of cities and Boston adoration. Middlebury literally can’t get the hype that northeastern gets.

How to market trash 101

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern received 105,000 applications. It also committed $511 million in need based aid compared to 2019, when they committed $296 million in need based aid.

This guy is worth every penny. On the YCBK podcast they said Northeastern is the gold standard for how a university should be run and that it's model is being studied at B schools. McKinsey uses its model to reform other colleges.

When you have colleges as diverse as UChicago, Middlebury, Xavier and American U running into problems, it makes sense to stay ahead of the curve.

Georgia Tech asked Northeastern for help in designing its co-op program, Vanderbilt is opening up a NYC campus.

It really is a case where you adapt or die.

A lot of their appeal is the revival of cities and Boston adoration. Middlebury literally can’t get the hype that northeastern gets.

Northeastern received 105,000 applications. It also committed $511 million in need based aid compared to 2019, when they committed $296 million in need based aid.

This guy is worth every penny. On the YCBK podcast they said Northeastern is the gold standard for how a university should be run and that it's model is being studied at B schools. McKinsey uses its model to reform other colleges.

When you have colleges as diverse as UChicago, Middlebury, Xavier and American U running into problems, it makes sense to stay ahead of the curve.

Georgia Tech asked Northeastern for help in designing its co-op program, Vanderbilt is opening up a NYC campus.

It really is a case where you adapt or die.

"All panelists had agreed to share early decision data.

An underling showed up in Mr. Nondorf's stead at the last minute, and she did not have the data. The slides Mr. Trout had prepared for Chicago ended up with blank spots, and they went up in front of hundreds of people who had been hoping for a peek.

To this day, the university won't release a full set of early decision data, and Mr. Nondorf, 58, did not respond to my messages about it.
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Chicago has frequently deployed an early decision move that makes some high school counselors uncomfortable.

After early application deferrals into the "regular decision" pool go out at other schools in the middle of the admissions season, Chicago sends a note to many of its own applicants. Should your feeling about us have changed, the message goes, consider moving your application into our binding early decision second round.

It's a soft squeeze. Not quite Al Capone if-you-know-what's-good-for-you material but maybe something his grandson's cousin might try."

Anonymous wrote:How much do you think Yale's big book costs? The marketing arm of Johns Hopkins is massive. Ask how much Harvard's Extension brings in in revenue. This is big business.

The worst offenders:

"Davidison leads the pack at 69% of its class in early decision, followed by Middlebury, Emory, Bucknell, Claremont McKenna, Lehigh and Washington University in St. Louis."

UChicago was referred to as a gangster!

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This article pissed me off sufficiently to cancel my NYT subscription.

How much do you think Yale's big book costs? The marketing arm of Johns Hopkins is massive. Ask how much Harvard's Extension brings in in revenue. This is big business.

The worst offenders:

"Davidison leads the pack at 69% of its class in early decision, followed by Middlebury, Emory, Bucknell, Claremont McKenna, Lehigh and Washington University in St. Louis."

UChicago was referred to as a gangster!

Anonymous wrote:University presidents make even more. At least those guys actually bring in revenue.

A lot make far less. It’s not abnormal to see other staff members paid more than the president; the president makes more if the board appreciates how much money the school is raking in.

University presidents make even more. At least those guys actually bring in revenue.

How much are people in similar positions at top universities paid? That’s the relevant question.

Very poor journalism, IMO.

this doesnt seem like a very hard job

fee waivers*

just send tons of marketing and application few waivers to people like the above.

unreal

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/business/tulane-university-chicago-early-decision.html

A fresh look at an AO's career ...

According to federal filings from 2023, Chicago’s vice president for enrollment and student advancement, James G. Nondorf, received $967,000 over a year from the university and “related” organizations. At Northeastern University, the executive vice chancellor and chief enrollment officer, Satyajit Dattagupta, got $1.079 million in compensation after decamping in 2022 from Tulane, where he had a strong run in a similar role.