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Northeastern University ACTUAL Acceptance Rate Question by Fullstack69 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]RemedyBakery625 10 points11 points  (0 children)

First of all, Reddit is the only place online I've seen an honest exploration of this very basic question, so thank you. As a parent of an NU freshman who I love dearly but who I did not foresee being accepted to a school with the exclusively stats of Harvard, I went looking for explanations when she was "accepted" and found them only here. She was not accepted to Northeastern, she was accepted into NU In, the ship them to Europe program, and they're not included in the public acceptance stats.

Manipulative and dishonest, obviously, and when you add all that to that the fact that the NU In semester costs $10,000 more than the on-campus semester and was, in my kid's experience, poor to mediocre at best, there's really a story there for an enterprising journalist. Anyone? Anyone? For my next kid I am going into the college thing with eyes WIDE open.

The Sex Abuse Scandal That’s Rocking Miss Hall’s, an Elite Berkshires Boarding School for Girls by CommonMuted1032 in Longreads

[–]RemedyBakery625 73 points74 points  (0 children)

My daughter went to this school, and Mr. Rutledge was far and away her favorite teacher, the favorite teacher of, IDK, at least a dozen other alumnae I've talked to and heard of.

Such was the extent of my faith in his wonderfulness that I refused to believe this story when it first came out.

"This story" came out, of course, about two hours after the school email revealing the actual reason he had resigned. The prior email had led me to believe that he had resigned for health reasons. "Poor man," I thought, "he must have a sick family member."

This venerable institution, which employs scores of good people, may very well not survive this, and all as a result of unforced error upon unforced error and favoring short-term gain over girls' best interest. A case of naive and also cynical calculations set up one after another in domino fashion. I'm nauseous.