@TomSrOfBoston : Your question, despite it’s rhetorical nature, is hard to resist. All schools find a way to offer funds to applicants they really want and/or have financial need. Some more than others. Northeastern, so far in my experience, offers less than the others and they have quite the endowment. Northeastern is known in my part of the world as a school that offers the least $ of schools in the northeast that kids apply to 'round here. It seems with a 795 million endowment, they could offer more, but choose not to. That’s their right, and my right not to pay them more for an education, that ratings say is substandard to others that offer more. Northeastern made my kids decision really easy, and for that I guess I should be grateful.
@chipperd An $800 million endowment is minuscule. BU has $1.9 billion by comparison. An $800 million endowment would produce $40 million in a good year. Most of that is restricted by the donors for specific uses, some of which is for scholarships. Northeastern tries to fund the students it really wants, primarily those with need who show the potential to excel. Many applicants received excellent aid, it is unfortunate that your student did not.
They are pretty comparable rank and prestige-wise - as you mentioned, it’s usually a matter of cost/fit preferences between them in the case of business.
With both schools being expensive, make sure you can afford either before committing to one.
As mentioned, you’ve got two schools (and maybe more coming) which should prepare well for a career in the industry and provide a solid education. A tough problem but a good problem 
For what it’s worth, the urban environment was a big part of the decision for me when in a similar comparison 4-5 years ago. I also wasn’t personally a fan of the social scene at schools like Syracuse. Of course, neither is better, it’s just a preference thing.
Hi people!
I needed your opinion.
I got into Northeastern Honors program with a 15k scholarship. I also got into JHU (but no scholarship whatsoever). Also I want to major in Computer Science and Criminal Justice at NU, and Computer Science at JHU.
Really appreciate any input! (I’m still waiting on ivies but not counting on them too much)
JHU is a great school generally for many subjects but it isn’t really known for CS - you can see how far down it ranks when it comes to research output:
http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2007/toyear/2018/index?all
I’m a bit biased as a Northeastern CS, but the teaching program here is one of the best around and while created here can also be found adopted by many other known CS schools. Add the resources of co-op to that and it’s hard to beat without naming the top schools in the field. Add in cheaper, it seems like the best choice 
I’d be happy to answer any questions on the specifics on the program - I TA the intro course here as well so I’m very familiar with the introductory curriculum which is unique here:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developers.html
@PengsPhils Thank you so much! Yes, of course, I knew that JHU isn’t very well known for CS. I was hoping to specialize in cybersecurity - but wanted to first start with CS in general. Do you think it’s a good plan?
@TomSrOfBoston : Your right Tom, 22k/year scholarship won’t cut it at our income level vs what he is being offered at higher ranked schools. And when presented this info, Northeastern admit folks said go pound sand. So yea, since logic didn’t move that needle, no sense in continuing that relationship.
@TomSrOfBoston any idea why the Northeastern endowment is as you put it miniscule- are alumni not willing to give ?
@quinntheeskimo For one thing Northeastern has spent about $700 million on construction in the past 20 years. If you take a walk around campus you will see where that went.
In Boston philanthropy circles think of Harvard as an enormous vacuum cleaner, sucking up money from corporations and foundations. Even BU’s $1.9 billion endowment is small when compared with similar schools like Emory and USC.
@chipperd You were offered $22,000/year in grants? Sorry, but that seems generous to me. In the past couple of years Northeastern has been shifting the mix in aid from merit based aid to need based aid for lower income families. A practice that BU and other colleges also seem to be following.
@chipperd In January you wrote
You simply cannot expect a private or out of state flagship to have the same bottom line cost as you in state flagship. That is aa very unreasonable expectation.
What higher ranked schools was your son accepted to with more generous aid? You only posted about Bentley which I would not consider a higher ranked school.
@TomSrOfBoston - thank you for the clarification !
@mmstanfordbound Yeah, that sounds good - the first year won’t be any different so there’s no harm in waiting.
@PengsPhils I’m also waiting for a few ivies (tho it’s unlikely)
@TomSrOfBoston : For what he wants to do, Bentley honors is higher ranked relative to a non-honors Northeastern experience and much cheaper
So I suppose I didn’t get any scholarship. My sat was 1380, it is clearly not very high.
@TomSrOfBoston I don’t have that tab 
@ brunov just be happy you got in plenty of people with 1530+ didn’t
Accepted into the College of Engineering(Mechanical Engineering and honors program.
$15K Scholarship
1380 SAT
95.61 GPA(WEIGHTED)
AP Literature
AP Language
AP U.S. History
I take college classes at one of my local colleges.
I was a middle school mentor, Captain of the tennis team, a single shooter on the archery team, played table tennis, 1st base in softball, and I have a leadership role in a program that I’ve been in for 7 years.
I applied to this college randomly just to see and didn’t really get to know it until after I was accepted and visited the campus.
Hope this helps.
@Brunov I got the same SAT score as you so I don’t think that’s how they determine scholarships.
how does waitlist notification work- if anyone is offered a spot off the waitlist I would assume notification would be sometime after the May 1 response deadline ? are spots open for both normal admission and NU in ?