Northeastern in Boston

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This. There is an entire book about how they gamed the system to falsely shoot up the rankings. If you push to get a ridiculous number of applicants (with the majority not qualified) your acceptance rate can look like it’s very selective. It’s fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

I am sure Northeastern is an OK school with a good coop program but they definitely gamed the system to move up the rankings. Glad to see they are now more where they belong because as at least for tech, I do not believe they are that prestigious.

They have no essays so it's a popular school to apply to. Also they give out fee waivers. They admit lower stats students who they guess are likely to attend to satellite campus and then do not count their statistics. They accept large numbers of kids on ED to also improve their yield. They tried to woo other colleges to improve their peer ranking. In 2023 they admitted kids for 3-4 years at satellite campus then completed changed course mid-cycle when people complained. If you want you kid going to a school like this, go for it.

This school is very controversial on here since any time there is a thread there is a person that insists all the negative comments come from one person, when in reality there are many people with less than positive view of the school.

[Anonymous]

For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

[Anonymous]

^in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

I am sure Northeastern is an OK school with a good coop program but they definitely gamed the system to move up the rankings. Glad to see they are now more where they belong because as at least for tech, I do not believe they are that prestigious.

They have no essays so it's a popular school to apply to. Also they give out fee waivers. They admit lower stats students who they guess are likely to attend to satellite campus and then do not count their statistics. They accept large numbers of kids on ED to also improve their yield. They tried to woo other colleges to improve their peer ranking. In 2023 they admitted kids for 3-4 years at satellite campus then completed changed course mid-cycle when people complained. If you want you kid going to a school like this, go for it.

This school is very controversial on here since any time there is a thread there is a person that insists all the negative comments come from one person, when in reality there are many people with less than positive view of the school.

DP. And it became a yuppy trend so, of course, there’s bitterness when this was all exposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That isn’t the true acceptance rate, it’s close to 25 percent over all programs/locations and well over 30 percent ED.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

I would definitely choose NEU over BC for CS and Engineering.

[Anonymous]

Whenever Northeastern comes up, trolls babble about 20 30 years ago and gaming.
Until the 1960s, US colleges were regarded as inferior to European colleges.
The Ivy League schools had acceptance rates of 60-70%, and they invented things like ED, EA to game the system to lower their acceptance rates, and rise in rankings. College today still play by the games they actually invented.

You can say whatever you want about 30 years ago, but we live in the 21st century now, and smart people make informed decisions with real, important data that matters, such as

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/rankings/best-undergraduate-business-schools-business-school-rankings/4/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

Have you seen acceptance rates? They choose YOU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That isn’t the true acceptance rate, it’s close to 25 percent over all programs/locations and well over 30 percent ED.

Not sure if this is supposed to be a "gotcha", but schools regularly have a higher ED rate than overall. Do you have a source for the "true" acceptance rate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

For what?
I have two kids in colleges.
BC was high on the list for business major kid other than T20ish reach schools.
NEU was high on the list for CS & Design major kid other than T20ish reach schools.

Business kid got into a T20 school.
CS/Design kid is attending NEU.

[Anonymous]

Does UVA Wise campus admission counted toward UVA admission rate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

This. There is an entire book about how they gamed the system to falsely shoot up the rankings. If you push to get a ridiculous number of applicants (with the majority not qualified) your acceptance rate can look like it’s very selective. It’s fake.

So? They did so legitimately, and above board. You can call it what you want. The school has more applications than almost any school in the U.S. If that bothers you, then do not apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

Have you seen acceptance rates? They choose YOU.

Apparently. OP is having such a tough time with this fact, that OP has to post about Northeastern on the regular.

OP, you need professional help. Anyone that posts about the same topic regarding the same sub topic, on DCUM, on a regular basis, needs professional help. You can get this post deleted, but it does not change that simple fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a private school like that I’m Boston. I’d definitely choose Boston College over NE.

For what?
I have two kids in colleges.
BC was high on the list for business major kid other than T20ish reach schools.
NEU was high on the list for CS & Design major kid other than T20ish reach schools.

Business kid got into a T20 school.
CS/Design kid is attending NEU.

NEU has outstanding programs, and OP can not seem to accept that, according to their regular Northeastern posts.