Class of 2023 - Acceptances/Rejections

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern isn't a particularly good school. I mean, it's fine, but I don't know that it is in any way better than UMD.

+1

It's an overpriced hype school that has used the UNWRT rankings system over many years.

When I was in high school decades ago, it was where the mediocre local townie students went to school.

You need to get out of the past. There are many many school that were super easy to get into decades ago that are really hard to get into now, like Univ of Southern CA and many others. Decades ago when I was looking at colleges, I laughed out loud at Univ of Richmond. It was literally accepting any and all students that would pay. I knew a guy that got in that didn't even break 1000 on SAT. But now, it's apparently really hard to get into. Can't believe it. I'm not disputing what you're saying was true decades ago about Northeastern, but it doesn't mean the school hasn't changed. I don't have a child there, but I know some really brilliant kids at Northeastern now. I also know some B+ students there. It's a mix. It has been able to attract some top top students with the Boston location, co-op program & great merit aid. And then it has some B students who are just happy to have gotten in. Nothing wrong with that. Bottom line: numbers are numbers. They have a 19% acceptance rate.

Bottom line: Numbers are numbers. Their Common Data Set figures for standardized test scores and GPAs are comparable to those for UMD-CP.

The acceptance rate does not tell you what the average incoming freshmen is like in terms of performance. That's what the CDS does.

[Anonymous]

Per the Merged CDS file, the avg SAT:
Northeastern: 1434
UMd-CP: 1337

That is a statistically significant difference. USNWR gaming aside, Northeastern now has really bright students. And I also remember it as a commuter school in the 80's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern isn't a particularly good school. I mean, it's fine, but I don't know that it is in any way better than UMD.

+1

It's an overpriced hype school that has used the UNWRT rankings system over many years.

When I was in high school decades ago, it was where the mediocre local townie students went to school.

You need to get out of the past. There are many many school that were super easy to get into decades ago that are really hard to get into now, like Univ of Southern CA and many others. Decades ago when I was looking at colleges, I laughed out loud at Univ of Richmond. It was literally accepting any and all students that would pay. I knew a guy that got in that didn't even break 1000 on SAT. But now, it's apparently really hard to get into. Can't believe it. I'm not disputing what you're saying was true decades ago about Northeastern, but it doesn't mean the school hasn't changed. I don't have a child there, but I know some really brilliant kids at Northeastern now. I also know some B+ students there. It's a mix. It has been able to attract some top top students with the Boston location, co-op program & great merit aid. And then it has some B students who are just happy to have gotten in. Nothing wrong with that. Bottom line: numbers are numbers. They have a 19% acceptance rate.

This is the 'gaming' of spending massive resources on increasing applications in order to move up the ranks in USNews. Northeastern is considered one of the poster child schools for this--marketing very heavily to up the selectivity, recruiting high stats kids with lots of merit money to up stats. It was particularly successful because its general location is a must-go-place for high stats kids' college visits so it's easy to add on. It will be interesting to see what new practices emerge from colleges when yield is no longer a big factor in USNews scores.

[Anonymous]

Correct, but the fact is that they have been successful in attracting these kids; they are sandwiched between Dartmouth and Cal-Berkeley in avg SAT.

At Wharton orientation many decades ago, they said they could lock us in the room and just have us talk to each other for two years and we would still be in very high demand at graduation.

There is something to be said for having a strong peer group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern isn't a particularly good school. I mean, it's fine, but I don't know that it is in any way better than UMD.

+1

It's an overpriced hype school that has used the UNWRT rankings system over many years.

When I was in high school decades ago, it was where the mediocre local townie students went to school.

You need to get out of the past. There are many many school that were super easy to get into decades ago that are really hard to get into now, like Univ of Southern CA and many others. Decades ago when I was looking at colleges, I laughed out loud at Univ of Richmond. It was literally accepting any and all students that would pay. I knew a guy that got in that didn't even break 1000 on SAT. But now, it's apparently really hard to get into. Can't believe it. I'm not disputing what you're saying was true decades ago about Northeastern, but it doesn't mean the school hasn't changed. I don't have a child there, but I know some really brilliant kids at Northeastern now. I also know some B+ students there. It's a mix. It has been able to attract some top top students with the Boston location, co-op program & great merit aid. And then it has some B students who are just happy to have gotten in. Nothing wrong with that. Bottom line: numbers are numbers. They have a 19% acceptance rate.

This is the 'gaming' of spending massive resources on increasing applications in order to move up the ranks in USNews. Northeastern is considered one of the poster child schools for this--marketing very heavily to up the selectivity, recruiting high stats kids with lots of merit money to up stats. It was particularly successful because its general location is a must-go-place for high stats kids' college visits so it's easy to add on. It will be interesting to see what new practices emerge from colleges when yield is no longer a big factor in USNews scores.

Northeastern is being smart moving forward - investing in their infrastructure, growing their science & engineering departments, increasing their NIH funding across all disciplines. And of course, Co-op is their thing, no one does it better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Correct, but the fact is that they have been successful in attracting these kids; they are sandwiched between Dartmouth and Cal-Berkeley in avg SAT.

At Wharton orientation many decades ago, they said they could lock us in the room and just have us talk to each other for two years and we would still be in very high demand at graduation.

There is something to be said for having a strong peer group.

Agree, and there are any number of schools where that can be found, including e.g. UMD.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. But PP said that the Common Data Set was comparable for Northeastern and UMd-CP, and they are not. Northeastern is closer to MIT than UMd-CP, and I don't think anyone on DCUM would say MIT and NE are comparable.

And I think UMd-CP is a great school.

[Anonymous]

Both NE and UMd have started playing the spring admit game as well.