Northeastern in Boston

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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.

You are the one that needs help. Or do you work at NEU? How do you know that the OP is simply not a 2024 parent with a legitimate question?

It is so obvious that this is one of the same trolls about the same topics, over again.

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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?

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

This has to be the stupidest response I’ve ever seen. Why would you take out all of the public schools? With them included, Northeastern is 53rd.

Bizarre omission.

NP. The new ranking formula emphasizes factors that pushed up most publics. Many in this forum may feel that those particular factors are unimportant for them personally.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? If what you’re saying is true, then relying is on those very same rankings, but just taking out the public schools makes no sense.

DP here. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants to apply to a public school?

It’s not. What I’m saying is that it’s ridiculous for someone to remove public schools from the rankings because they think the rankings are inaccurate but then uses the same rankings for just the private schools is ridiculous. The rankings are either reliable or they are not reliable. To say “we will use these rankings, but take out the public schools because these rankings favor public schools“ is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

It is more ridiculous for a grown adult to post and rely on college rankings, continuously.

[Anonymous]

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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?

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

This has to be the stupidest response I’ve ever seen. Why would you take out all of the public schools? With them included, Northeastern is 53rd.

Bizarre omission.

NP. The new ranking formula emphasizes factors that pushed up most publics. Many in this forum may feel that those particular factors are unimportant for them personally.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? If what you’re saying is true, then relying is on those very same rankings, but just taking out the public schools makes no sense.

DP here. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants to apply to a public school?

It’s not. What I’m saying is that it’s ridiculous for someone to remove public schools from the rankings because they think the rankings are inaccurate but then uses the same rankings for just the private schools is ridiculous. The rankings are either reliable or they are not reliable. To say “we will use these rankings, but take out the public schools because these rankings favor public schools“ is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

Rankings are just reference points, and there are various other rankings.
USN&WR ranks LACs separately. Some other rankings combine them together.
USN&WR also has a ranking for the best public schools.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
This must be ridiculous to you and stupidest thing you ever heard?? LOL

Many private schools were affected by the new methodology.
It's also a good reference seeing relative positions among the private schools.
I think it makes more sense to rank publics and privates separately just like LACs are ranked separately.
Is your kid in a public school or something? You are truly weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

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

This has to be the stupidest response I’ve ever seen. Why would you take out all of the public schools? With them included, Northeastern is 53rd.

Bizarre omission.

NP. The new ranking formula emphasizes factors that pushed up most publics. Many in this forum may feel that those particular factors are unimportant for them personally.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? If what you’re saying is true, then relying is on those very same rankings, but just taking out the public schools makes no sense.

DP here. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants to apply to a public school?

It’s not. What I’m saying is that it’s ridiculous for someone to remove public schools from the rankings because they think the rankings are inaccurate but then uses the same rankings for just the private schools is ridiculous. The rankings are either reliable or they are not reliable. To say “we will use these rankings, but take out the public schools because these rankings favor public schools“ is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

Rankings are just reference points, and there are various other rankings.
USN&WR ranks LACs separately. Some other rankings combine them together.
USN&WR also has a ranking for the best public schools.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
This must be ridiculous to you and stupidest thing you ever heard?? LOL

Many private schools were affected by the new methodology.
It's also a good reference seeing relative positions among the private schools.
I think it makes more sense to rank publics and privates separately just like LACs are ranked separately.
Is your kid in a public school or something? You are truly weird.

You are an idiot. Liberal arts colleges are not separated by public or private school either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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

This has to be the stupidest response I’ve ever seen. Why would you take out all of the public schools? With them included, Northeastern is 53rd.

Bizarre omission.

NP. The new ranking formula emphasizes factors that pushed up most publics. Many in this forum may feel that those particular factors are unimportant for them personally.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? If what you’re saying is true, then relying is on those very same rankings, but just taking out the public schools makes no sense.

DP here. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants to apply to a public school?

It’s not. What I’m saying is that it’s ridiculous for someone to remove public schools from the rankings because they think the rankings are inaccurate but then uses the same rankings for just the private schools is ridiculous. The rankings are either reliable or they are not reliable. To say “we will use these rankings, but take out the public schools because these rankings favor public schools“ is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

Rankings are just reference points, and there are various other rankings.
USN&WR ranks LACs separately. Some other rankings combine them together.
USN&WR also has a ranking for the best public schools.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
This must be ridiculous to you and stupidest thing you ever heard?? LOL

Many private schools were affected by the new methodology.
It's also a good reference seeing relative positions among the private schools.
I think it makes more sense to rank publics and privates separately just like LACs are ranked separately.
Is your kid in a public school or something? You are truly weird.

You are an idiot. Liberal arts colleges are not separated by public or private school either.

ok
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

[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?

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

NYU also fudges their statistics. 25% of the freshman class is not reported in statistics.

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

I'm all with you on college experience - I'm a BC alum and it's a great place to be academically/socially and Boston is awesome. But there are some degrees where BC wouldn't be the right choice. That said, I also wouldn't have a "Boston or bust" agenda and say "Northeastern is the place" if I were applying for engineering or CS. There are schools in other parts of the country that'd beat out Northeastern for me and BC shouldn't be on the list to begin with.

[Anonymous]

I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

Or maybe we’d rather send our kids to a school that doesn’t play games and instead focuses on actual learning.

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Anonymous wrote:I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

Or maybe we’d rather send our kids to a school that doesn’t play games and instead focuses on actual learning.

I love after the years and years of games and shenanigans to falsely inflate the school to game the rankings—once it’s shown it was all fluff and they were readjusted accordingly —it’s now “rankings don’t matter” from NE. Ha!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

Or maybe we’d rather send our kids to a school that doesn’t play games and instead focuses on actual learning.

I love after the years and years of games and shenanigans to falsely inflate the school to game the rankings—once it’s shown it was all fluff and they were readjusted accordingly —it’s now “rankings don’t matter” from NE. Ha!

What?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

Or maybe we’d rather send our kids to a school that doesn’t play games and instead focuses on actual learning.

I love after the years and years of games and shenanigans to falsely inflate the school to game the rankings—once it’s shown it was all fluff and they were readjusted accordingly —it’s now “rankings don’t matter” from NE. Ha!

Me too. I always knew NEU was no top 50 school. It’s now been confirmed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always assume the people who condemn Northeastern the loudest are mostly ticked off that NEU figured out how to game the rankings before their own favorite schools did.

Or maybe we’d rather send our kids to a school that doesn’t play games and instead focuses on actual learning.

I love after the years and years of games and shenanigans to falsely inflate the school to game the rankings—once it’s shown it was all fluff and they were readjusted accordingly —it’s now “rankings don’t matter” from NE. Ha!

What?

That pp is disturbed and apparently traumatized in some way by northeastern. Wish you the best, obsessed poster. time heals all wounds!

[Anonymous]

I am surprised to see northeastern among the top 100 lists.

[Anonymous]

I have very mixed emotions about all this. My son is at NEU and I sort of detest the whole thing having been to school in the area with recollections of what it was. Clearly there is some smoke and mirrors here. Clearly, though, there is also real progress - that was evident to me when I toured it. I don’t know. I struggle.