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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But everyone (even wikipedia!) knows northeastern is gaming the system.  It's private so its Presidents can do whatever they want to march up the rankings but UVA is a public and has to serve the public of Virginia.  [/quote]

I'm sure not everyone knows it, but the bottom line is it appears to be paying off.  Applicants certainly think Northeastern is a much better school than it was not too long ago when it was viewed as a regional commuter school.  Chicago and Vanderbilt obviously started far above Northeastern, but they have played the game well.   Chicago in my memory had a near 50% acceptance rate at one time and is now upper Ivy League in stats.  I think Michigan is probably the public that is pulling the most levers, but they have the benefit of having nearly half now from OOS.

BTW, I wrote the original post mentioning Northeastern, but it was not to compare to UVA.  It was just to say that all schools play the game to different extents, even UVA and W&M.  In the case of these two schools, they are quite dependent on OOS applications to keep acceptance rates down, so there has probably been a lot of focus there.  [/quote]

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