Why is Northeastern (NEU) so popular with both parents and students these days?

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Anonymous wrote:NEU is totally the new Harvard. Everyone knows this.

It's closer to MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.[/quot

It’s supposed selectivity would decrease in a heartbeat if admin had the guts to include supplemental essays to its application.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.[/quot]

It’s supposed selectivity would decrease in a heartbeat if admin had the guts to include supplemental essays to its application.

Nope. Case Western is ranked same at #53. It's a well respected good school, but not as popular as Northeastern.
So supplemental essay must not be a major factor at all.

Also the whole purpose of supplemental essays is for the schools to pick the right(best fit) students for the schools.
Northeastern is already doing one of the best jobs, hence it's retention rate is like top 5.
So no need to impose an extra burden to the students.
Schools should already have plenty of data and information.

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NEU is the Harvard of third tier universities

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

There's the T20 and everyone else which obviously has some great schools.

NEU is part of the "everyone else," which is perfectly fine. IF and when it cracks the T50 much less in the tier of the other colleges you mentioned above in the future, then let's chat. No one is promoting tons of posts on UMD, Rutgers, Lehigh, VT, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.[/quot]

It’s supposed selectivity would decrease in a heartbeat if admin had the guts to include supplemental essays to its application.

Nope. Case Western is ranked same at #53. It's a well respected good school, but not as popular as Northeastern.
So supplemental essay must not be a major factor at all.

Also the whole purpose of supplemental essays is for the schools to pick the right(best fit) students for the schools.
Northeastern is already doing one of the best jobs, hence it's retention rate is like top 5.
So no need to impose an extra burden to the students.
Schools should already have plenty of data and information.

Disagree. If NU required supplemental essays it would receive (far) fewer applications. But with AI now who knows!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

There's the T20 and everyone else which obviously has some great schools.

NEU is part of the "everyone else," which is perfectly fine. IF and when it cracks the T50 much less in the tier of the other colleges you mentioned above in the future, then let's chat. No one is promoting tons of posts on UMD, Rutgers, Lehigh, VT, etc.

Ranking is a good reference, but it’s just one of the references and I think actual data and metrics are more important. More people are selecting schools based on those now and that's why the school is getting more popular.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

What's the source?
Anyways acceptance rate is a part of the selectivity together with applicant quality and yield rate.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

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NEU acceptance rate is actual 1.8% for 2024.

[Anonymous]

I see the anti-NEU trolls are back to gaslighting this thread again.

No one compares it to Harvard. NYU, BU, BC, Tufts, yes.

But the anti-NEU troll can't leave enough alone.

Top SAT, top retention rates, top results in CS/Engineering placement, top results in B-school undergrad, top results in med and law school placements.

Some academic programs are superior to BU, BC. Some are not.

Why this bothers the anti-NEU troll so much is a mystery.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU is totally the new Harvard. Everyone knows this.

It's closer to MIT.

Pretty clear to anyone paying attention at this point that Wisco and NEU are on the verge of seizing spots in the Top 10 any day now.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU is totally the new Harvard. Everyone knows this.

It's closer to MIT.

Pretty clear to anyone paying attention at this point that Wisco and NEU are on the verge of seizing spots in the Top 10 any day now.

Why are people obsessed with ranking?
Someone brought up Harvard for some reason., so just saying it's characteristics are closer to MIT than Harvard.