<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>some girl was bashing Northeastern University at my school today and one of her comments was: Northeastern is really ghetto, why would you go there?</p>
<p>Is that true?</p>
<p>Nope. </p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>You should tell her to do her research a little better, because it hardly makes any sense to call the school ‘ghetto’.
She probably wasn’t accepted or something…</p>
<p>Good grief absolutely not-what a strange thing to say.</p>
<p>I agree with zaphira, she was probably among the 66% of applicants who were not accepted.</p>
<p>I can’t really think of any way in which Northeastern matches the definition of ghetto. If you have been accepted (or are considering applying), I recommend visiting campus if possible, which is a good idea for any school, whether or not you are concerned about ghettoness.</p>
<p>Haha. Naa she’s very stuck up(she got accepted to Duke).
Ok, I thought so. I was really confused when she said that.
Question. How is the area surrounding Northeastern?</p>
<p>Mostly good, but as you go towards Roxbury it gets a little rougher. I must add that there really is no reason that you’d venture into Roxbury anyways. It’s a major city, so you’ll always have bad areas as well as good areas. The crime rates aren’t really any higher than other colleges in major cities, relatively speaking.</p>
<p>Yo nahh, dawg. Northeastern ain’t ghetto at all.</p>
<p>i was there two days ago and it’s not “ghetto” by any means. it’s really urban and trendy just like the city around it.</p>
<p>I visited with my son yesterday at an admitted students day. We spent a lot of time after the event just walking around campus and the surrounding area. It is quite nice really. I felt very safe and very impressed by all the beautiful buildings on and around campus. </p>
<p>My son is definitely not a city kid like I was so he suffered from culture shock during our first visit in November. Yesterday he started to fall in love with the place-it’s urban but manageable-check it out for yourself. :)</p>
<p>Boston is a beautiful city and Northeastern is apart of that greatness. A short walk away there is Newbury and Tremont Streets, high end shopping etc. The Prudential Mall is a high end mall also within walking distance. Northeastern has the best of both worlds, a modern inner city campus and the rest of downtown just beyond the boundries of campus. Boston has changed over the past 30 years, for the better. I graduated from BU 30 years ago and back then Kenmore Square was sketch, but now it is nice. Look at Ruggles station once to be avoided is now beautiful (if a T stop can be beautiful). You can even get Duncan Donuts there, oh how I miss DD! NU is far from the ghetto.</p>
<p>If my understanding of street vernacular is correct, she didn’t mean it was “in” a ghetto, or was dangerous like a ghettos often are. She meant it was fadish, cheap, 3rd-rate, unestablished, and/or fit together in an un-artful and haphazard way…what people get when they are not classy or sophisticated enough to get something genuine or classy.</p>
<p>People’s views of colleges usually don’t keep up with the changes that colleges actually make. The academic prestige of schools like Washington U in St. Louis and U of Southern California have risen dramatically over the past couple decades (if US News is to believed). Their improvement has been met with suspicion, resentment, and scorn by the musty-minded traditionalists who are surprised that any school could be considered prestigious that doesn’t have a signer of the Declaration of Independence as an alumnus.</p>
<p>Northeastern’s improvement in just the past decade has been amazing. It seems to be on nearly everyone’s list this year, and its acceptance % is dropping like Charlie Sheen’s credit rating. Some people are threatened by this, like Hillary Clinton might be if Vanessa Hudgens moved into the house next door and did a lot of sunbathing in the back yard.</p>
<p>Thanks for that heads up-boy I am just another old clueless Mom-when the heck did that happen?</p>
<p>Thanks for the laughs. :)</p>
<p>Perfect explaination!!!</p>
<p>I love this video of Northeastern:
[YouTube</a> - Northeastern State of Mind](<a href=“Northeastern State of Mind - YouTube”>Northeastern State of Mind - YouTube)</p>
<p>[The] Boston [area] is the most competitive college town in the world. I think at one time or another all of the better colleges in that area (MIT, Wellesley, Tufts, BU, Brandeis, BC, and now Northeastern) were scoffed at as brash upstarts who were foolish to even attempt to rise out of the ooze and strive to be respectable despite being in Harvard’s shadow. But they all stuck with it and have carved out their own niche and distinctive identity. I really respect the progress Northeastern has made; it sounds like a great place.</p>