For reference, I was accepted into Macaulay @ Baruch, Rutgers @ NB, and NEU. I had pretty good scores but did not take any subject SATs because I thought the schools that required them were too expensive.

I actually disliked NEU at first after seeing it, but it grew on me really hard the more I thought about it. Here are some reasons in bullet points.

1. Campus is enclosed but a city is close by, so it's best of both worlds.
2. International (1 in 3 is international, allegedly), so lots of new people to meet.
3. Generous aid
4. Boston is a great student city. Much cleaner than NY (I live in NJ and go there often), but still has things to do. Feels like a really, REALLY big suburb.
5. Close to home (for me personally)
6. It's a good "generic school". It does a lot of things well with no real concentration (ie. it's not, you know, THE engineering school where everything else is shit). It's like a better Rutgers, basically. This is good because you'll see great business majors, great engineers, great programmers, great teachers, whatever here. Lots of variety.
7. Gets better and better with time as it's appreciating in quality.
8. Campus is sized JUST right. It's big enough for things to do, but small enough that getting to classes won't take more than 10-15min by foot.

I chose it over Baruch because NYC is too dirty/close to home for me, and over Rutgers because Rutgers is High School 2.0 for me.