Northeastern in Boston
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Anonymous
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With the US News rankings out and northeastern taking a big hit in the ranks, I was absolutely floored when I saw the stats that this school boasts.
An acceptance rate of 7% and sat averages on par with northwestern and higher than a couple of the ivies, can anyone explain without getting too into the weeds why this school is ranked so low but has extremely high levels of selectivity? How is this school generally perceived in the DC area? |
Anonymous
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Northeastern has gamed the system to rise in the ranks - and they thought they won.
If you apply to Northeastern - and if your GPA / SAT is not in the range they want to report, you are accepted to a Satellite campus and those #s are not counted for USNews. |
Anonymous
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Here is a great article on how Northeastern focused solely on breaking the rankings code and had the sole focus on optimizing everything they did around rankings. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/
When you do this - you get a # - but you may leave your soul behind. |
Anonymous
Northeastern is one of the most applied-to private schools, together with schools like NYU and BU, from the DMV area. Schools like NYU also hit hard, but their acceptance rate will continue to be a single digit. BU defended pretty well, but it's still relatively low-ranked in the 40s, yet it maintains relatively high level of selectivity. Northeastern is popular because of several major factors it's doing well: salary outcome, peer quality, location, retention/graduation rate, etc. It's top-notch in these major areas. If you look at private schools, there's really not much change, and Northeastern is still in a good position. 1 Princeton 2 MIT 3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford 5 Yale 6 UPenn 7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke 9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern 12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago 15 Rice 16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt 18 Notre Dame 19 Georgetown 20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL 23 USC 24 NYU 25 Boston College 26 Tufts 27 Boston University 28 Lehigh 29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest 31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern 33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara 36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova 40 Tulane |
Anonymous
| Do you mean Northwestern? |
Anonymous
That isn’t the true acceptance rate, it’s close to 25 percent over all programs/locations and well over 30 percent ED. |
Anonymous
+1 True, but the Northeastern hater who trolls about Northeastern regularly, does not want to hear all of the valid points about Northeastern, he only wants the hateful rhetoric to perpetuate his point, yet again. If only the respondents were limited to those who have actually set foot on Northeastern campus, instead of those who Google random incorrect and inaccurate information. |
Anonymous
Northwestern in Boston? Northwestern has a campus in Doha Qatar. |
Anonymous
| I know Northeastern from the 90s when it was a third tier commuter school. I do acknowledge that it has made a comeback in a big way and the investments to the campus and education system are noteworthy. The co op program was super unique back in my time, less so know. That’s probably the big differentiator from a student experience. My DC decided not to apply after we visited bc the co op to her seemed disruptive to the traditional college experience. Boston is a great city for students and Northeastern’s new ranking is probably correct now as I do think it was overrated before. |
Anonymous
| Oh boy. Another troll thread |
Anonymous
+1. My sister attended in the early 2000s, and enjoyed the co-op experience, which definitely made her job search after graduating easier. But I didn't get a sense that she got a liberal arts education and there wasn't much campus life (she lived off-campus all four years). Of course, to some extent the education depends on the major, and she was doing business/marketing. |
Anonymous
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Many private schools hit hard including WashU, NYU, Tufts, Wake Forest, URochester, Tulane, etc. I don't see people will switch to big state schools because of the rankings. 2nd tier UCs, Texas, Ohio, etc. Nope.
Looking at the private schools, three schools ahead of NEU - Lehigh, URochester, and Wake Forest won't surpass NEU in popularity anytime soon. Next three are the Boston peer schools - BU, BC, Tufts. After that NYU nd T25ish schools. Nothing much has changed for Northeastern. |
Anonymous
*haters, as in more than one hater. |
Anonymous
| The good news is that Boston University holds the bottom slot in the area given they are associated with intellectual giants like AOC and Kendi. |
Anonymous
+1 Why are the repeated disingenuous threads, about the same schools, allowed? OP, reread one of your last multiple threads about the same topic. Better yet, take your meds. |