Makes sense. Thank you.
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Generous with 4âs and 5âs is great to hear! Thank you!
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Did you get into the Boston campus?
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Thanks to all who responded about the co-op and 4 year graduation rate question. This is very helpful. US News has 0% down for NEU 4-year graduation rate. I can fully appreciate the exposure and real world experience that the co-op program afforded the students especially if they are slotted into summers. Great to hear many do graduate within 4 and the fact that NEU is generous with the AP credits. Itâs an also a great point that this is particularly helpful for nursing or pre-med track students where shadowing is one critical requirement for med-schools. I was simply trying to think about the cost and returns of the 1 additional year. Super helpful discussions. Thanks, everyone.
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Something else for you to consider, Northeastern is 6th in the country in retention rates. That metric shines a bright light into what the students think of the school from the inside.
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That is simply wrong. Even when the 5-year program was the norm there were still students graduating in 4 years.
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When we visited NE they said you do NOT pay tuition during co op. So, even if you take 5 years you only pay for the semesters that you attend classes, which is typically only 4 years (at least thatâs what they told us). Honestly, my feeling when I heard that was that I think it sounds great. You pay for 4 years of college over 4 1/2-5 years during which you also get 2-3 meaningful work experiences and, likely, post grad job opportunities.
My daughter applied EA but pulled her app last week after getting in to her ED1. Good luck to all!
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Northeastern has never charged tuition during coop terms.
There was a CC member on here several years ago who chose Northeastern because at the time National Merit finalists got a full tuition scholarship. With the AP credits she had she was planning to finish in three and a half years with two coops. Her second coop was at a laboratory in Germany (Max Planck lab?). She was offered a third coop at another famous lab. She ended up graduating in five years, With the likely help of those coops on her resume, she received a Marshall scholarship to study for a masterâs at, I believe, Imperial College London. Last year she received a Ph.D. from Harvard.
So you never know the path you will take or where it will lead you.
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I didnât see it. I was responding to the person who saw it⊠Thanks for clarification I thought I was going crazy from these responses re: summers off! I even went to NEU website like âam I crazy?â I KNOW that slide (at school visit) showed ONE summer off because it was literally all my kid talked about on walk back to our hotel 
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Daughter applied EA Business college to NU Oct 23rd. Are results expected only in Jan ? or is there a chance before the holidays?
Her first choice was NU London .
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I was not offered merit. Do you need to apply? I figured I wonât get it since Iâm not in the income bracket.
Same question. The portal has Financial Award Letter to encourage us to fill css though understanding we didnât chose Financial aid from the common app.
We are not qualifying the need based. I am curious if we need to fill this for any possible amount of the merit based. Otherwise it would be waste of time and efforts for both parites. Any suggestion? Thanks.
Northeastern doesnât put out EA decisions until after the new year. The date listed is Feb 15 and I wouldnât expect the decisions to come out much before that. 
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My understanding is that merit is only awarded through Admissions and is not based on need. Applying for FA is always a good idea (FAFSA and CSS) because you never know if/when you finances may change (death, serious illness, other change in financing) and if all of your FA docs are in, then the campus can run a new analysis for you.
Two years ago my second year student received his EA decision on January 26th. Fingers crossed they have the capacity to do it again for this application cycle.
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Sorry I disagree with what NU is doing. My D did ED and was accepted to the Oakland campus. We live 45 minutes outside of Boston and she wants to study biology. What could possibly be the reason to send her 3,000 miles away to Oakland. And they will not change her campus when I know that there will be other students accepted who didnât apply ED and then going to Boston. At the tour it was explained that it was an option if you wanted it. They bought a college and are now wondering how to fill it with students. It shouldnât be the students who have to pay for a decision by the school. Now I have to pay for a trip to CA to see a school campus that wasnât even considered. Shame on NU
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Sorry for the disappointment, but they are at least offering her an option. (I am assuming that she listed Boston as her preferred choice and Oakland is now a non binding offer.) Otherwise, you can consider it a denial in her ED1 choice and move on to her other college choices.
It looks like the Oakland campus offers Biology as a major so that is one consideration. They couldnât offer for ED in Boston but this is an option as an alternate entry.
Like I said, they cannot please everyone and certainly cannot accept all ED applicants. Only Admissions knows how and why they accept some students and not others or what the entire pool of candidates looked like.
I wish you both all the best in this process.
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The campus is really beautiful (woodsy, green), large and seemed secure. You would never know you are in Oakland or any other city. I think the commitment is only 1 year. After that students have the option to go to Boston and most take that option. I took a 3 hour tour and learned all this. I was really surprised how beautiful and peaceful the grounds look. I would not want to be there 4 years but 1 year seems ok.I would be open-mined.
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It sounds more like the tour guide gave you unclear (or wrong) communications and you didnât quite understand the location acceptance/assignment system and this was a surprise. There was no bait and switch. Your kid wasnât accepted with their first choice. I have good friends whose kid applied ED and they knew that there was a chance their kid would âonlyâ get in to a non-Boston location (and were planning to turn that down).
Northeastern has no problem filling seats with a <10% acceptance rate. I am not sure what you mean by that they are âwondering how to fill itâ? If they hadnât bought that campus your child likely would have been deferred or rejected as there would have been far fewer seats.
The also possibly want geographic diversity in campuses as that is something kids want in a school. There is a chance your kid was assigned to CA as admissions dinât actually want more local kids in Boston 
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I think you meant this for @NewGrad24. Her child was accepted there.
I would prefer NEU to send my son to Oakland because that would be not binding. You will have many options. Your daughter can at least come back to Boston a year later.
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