What is the NU.In program really like?

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Is anyone else concerned about this program? It seems like a scam to raise NEU’s average SAT scores, by shunting some of the lower score students off for the first semester so they won’t be counted.

The Northeastern overseas schools look real dodgy. Check them out on google streetview. Some of these places look like rundown cheesy apartment buildings. I mean, this makes me think of University of Phoenix.

According to the website, you might have to bring your own cookware and plates when you go!! Why? Because they don’t provide any food!! You have to buy it and cook it yourself. I’m trying to imagine my student packing up a bunch of pots and pans and spatulas to take them overseas. Oh and you might have to take public transportation for up to 30 minutes each way to get from the group apartment where you’re housed to the so-called “school.” Not exactly what I imagined as a first-semester college experience.

I guess it could be worse. my student could have ended up like some of the legacy kids that get housed at a cheap motel off-campus and take BS courses in “entrepreneurship”. Do a search on the “ContiNUe” program and you’ll see what I mean.

Is this program for real? Or is it just a “pay to play” program to get an extra $36,000 out of parents?

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The NU In program has been around for over ten years. The “overseas schools” include McGill University in Montreal, University of Sydney in Australia, University College Dublin etc. Your mind has been made up so I will not argue NU In’s merits.

It is unfortunate that your student did not get Fall admission in Boston but it is time to move on to his other college choices. .

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Thanks. We did indeed move on. I’m actually glad for the NU.IN admission, because it inspired us to scrutinize the whole school more closely. We probably wouldn’t have done that with a regular fall admission. And that would have been a big mistake.

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Parents on the Northeastern Parents FB page, whose kids started in the NUin program rave about how amazing it was for their children.