Most selective R1 universities by acceptance rate

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No one gets impressed by Northeastern. Literally no one.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that is a list that means something.

Notice that Columbia ranks second on the size-adjusted list, after CMU. I’ve seen people here questioning whether Columbia is even a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:No one gets impressed by Northeastern. Literally no one.

Employers are not no one, and in fact they are the most important.
They seem to be impressed by Northeastern.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about the University of Illinois, but why/when/where did it become such a sought-after computer science school? It's not like it's located near Fermilab.

As a follow-up, is there any movement by UVA to become more CS/AI focused? Looking at that list of schools, that's where you want your public university to be heavily invested. I know that you still need to train doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc., but the schools on that list will just separate further from the schools that don't emphasize the future.

It’s been like that for many years. When I was applying to CS graduate school in the 90s, it was a top destination. In addition to University of Illinois, here were the other schools that were top CS destinations for grad school back then:

CMU
Cal
Stanford
University of Wisconsin
MIT
University of Washington
Cornell
CalTech
Georgia Tech

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one gets impressed by Northeastern. Literally no one.

Employers are not no one, and in fact they are the most important.
They seem to be impressed by Northeastern.

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Of course they are - but how would OP possibly know or admit that important fact?

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Anonymous wrote:Not a lot of publics on this list. Reminds me of the "Big Law" and "Big Med" lists. And this is why the Ivies and the like will never die.

Anonymous wrote:For the CS/CS engineering outcomes:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech

Rank (Adjusted) Institution # Employed Top Employer (Total) Top Employer (Share)
1 Carnegie Mellon University 1,356
2 Columbia University 651
3 Stanford University 661
4 MIT 405
5 California Institute of Technology 78
6 Harvey Mudd College 72
7 Georgia Institute of Technology 1,094
8 University of Southern California 1,252
9 Rice University 235
10 Harvard University 260
11 Duke University 304
12 Cornell University 612
13 Northeastern University 604
14 University of California, Berkeley 1,212
15 University of Pennsylvania 352
16 Princeton University 170
17 Brown University 236
18 Santa Clara University 180
19 Northwestern University 226
20 University of Illinois 877

The mission of a state flagship is to offer MORE opportunity, not less.

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Anonymous wrote:The Northeastern number is really sus

It has no business being in the same range as Princeton, Penn, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern.

I don't know what voodoo magic that school is doing. It was a commuter school for cops from Revere twenty years ago.

More than twenty years ago. And cops from Revere and ordinary Bostonians went to Northeastern to become lawyers and work in business. Since then the school has become more high tech and more well known around the country.

If you think you’re being insulting or witty by sneering at its history then you’re just a mean spirited person.

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NP here. It seems every time NEU is mentioned, it is by an OP whose DC was not admitted. It is not so difficult to figure out that there is an obvious chip on OP's shoulder.

If we are going to talk about past commuter schools - many, many schools, including Harvard, would be included. GMU is a current commuter school.

NEU has not been a commuter school since the 1950's, when it was also known as a top Engineering school. NEU has always been a top Engineering school, and also one of the first and best Computer Science Schools, as well. NEU programs are nothing to sneer at, and it is extremely difficult, to be admitted to NEU. OP seems to be well aware of this, otherwise, why would OP be so persistent about posting false information about NEU, in particular.

OP should know what they are talking about before they post. There have been other pieces of misinformation that OP has posted about NEU. OP's posts are obvious and incorrect.

I don’t know anything about Northeastern and I don’t mean this as an insult, but Northeastern (and Suffolk) were still considered commuter schools when I graduated college in 1996 (I attended a different college in Boston).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Northeastern number is really sus

It has no business being in the same range as Princeton, Penn, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern.

I don't know what voodoo magic that school is doing. It was a commuter school for cops from Revere twenty years ago.

More than twenty years ago. And cops from Revere and ordinary Bostonians went to Northeastern to become lawyers and work in business. Since then the school has become more high tech and more well known around the country.

If you think you’re being insulting or witty by sneering at its history then you’re just a mean spirited person.

+1

NP here. It seems every time NEU is mentioned, it is by an OP whose DC was not admitted. It is not so difficult to figure out that there is an obvious chip on OP's shoulder.

If we are going to talk about past commuter schools - many, many schools, including Harvard, would be included. GMU is a current commuter school.

NEU has not been a commuter school since the 1950's, when it was also known as a top Engineering school. NEU has always been a top Engineering school, and also one of the first and best Computer Science Schools, as well. NEU programs are nothing to sneer at, and it is extremely difficult, to be admitted to NEU. OP seems to be well aware of this, otherwise, why would OP be so persistent about posting false information about NEU, in particular.

OP should know what they are talking about before they post. There have been other pieces of misinformation that OP has posted about NEU. OP's posts are obvious and incorrect.

I don’t know anything about Northeastern and I don’t mean this as an insult, but Northeastern (and Suffolk) were still considered commuter schools when I graduated college in 1996 (I attended a different college in Boston).

Welcome to the 21st century.

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I think part of the reason so many people are ignorant of colleges today is that they have no conception of the computer science, data science revolution that has occurred on campuses. They're stuck in the 1980's when MIS was what was taught, or some such thing.

Northeastern through luck or pluck has built a powerhouse engineering and computer science program. So it would be weird to take someone from the 1980's and ask them should I go to BC or Northeastern? Of course, back in the 1980's, for all programs, it would be BC.

Now? Ask them if you want to do computer science. You'd get laughed at if you said BC over Northeastern.

I have a neighbor's daughter who went to NEU for premed. She's at Tufts Medical right now. According to her there are more NEU graduates at Tufts than from any other school other than Tufts undergrad.

It's almost 2024 people, not 1995.

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UIUC attracts a lot of international students.