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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy App. Gamed the system and people have been easily duped. It’s working, they’re getting the applications and ED at that.[/quote]

I understand the full picture (e.g., how they set out to climb in USNWR rankings), but I find these comments dumb. We've now visited 10 very competitive colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern is like no other. In fact I have a brother who works in Boston and he said that sometimes kids from other boston area colleges have trouble getting internships etc because folks take Northeastern kids.

So 2 things can be true... NE worked to game the system AND it's actually become a great school with rare opportunities and lots of smart kids. 
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What are these “Rare” opportunities that you claim for the school? Many others offer Co-ops. So what is it at NEU that is rare? [/quote]

Co-op opportunities at a coveted school in a great college city.[/quote]

why is co-op popular?  don't we work our whole lives- i would've hated to miss one semester of college to go work (and there's nothing for an undergrad besides research to do in my field so would've been a waste or just a desolate campus if all my friends left).  [b]also what's up with the start college abroad?  is that to some how game the system- like they don't count in the stats if they don't start in main campus the way some schools do january freshmen to evade the stats?[/b] [/quote]

Interesting and probably accurate.[/quote]

The stats for "non Boston start" programs are not lower (may have been 10 years ago but not now).  However, majority of the "non Boston start" are full pay/rich kids.   It's Jan start or sophomore start except NEU has found a way to capitalize on it by requiring you to start freshman fall at one of their many "off campus locations". [/quote]
Proof?  Don't think there is any since NEU not reporting any stats on non-Boston start kids[/quote]

I personally know kids in several of those programs and I follow the Parents pages (have an upcoming kid who might be interested and one who applied a few years ago but chose not to attend).  They have almost 100K applications. The kids in these programs have 1500+ and near perfect GPAs and tons of AP courses (most have 6-8+AP courses).  That is not "lower stats". There are kids in those programs with 1580-1600 and 4.0 UW.  The notion that these kids are 1400, 3.7UW and no APs is not accurate.  
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Not from what I have seen on college confidential, reddit, and knowledge of admitted students from our local HS. [/quote]

You know kids with 1400 (who submitted them) and no APs and sub 3.7UW gpas that got into NEU?  Not what I see on CC or Reddit. Plenty of reddit posts where kids stats for NUIn are higher than the kids who got into Boston.  So nice try.  
Fact is all kids getting in are top stats---they have 96K+ kids to select from.

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Not true for ED.   
CDS speaks a different story even for Boston admits.  Have a read if you want to look at some hard data versus speculation. 
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CDS does not break out data points for ED vs EA/RD.  Given that only 28% submit SAT and 8% ACT (and assuming there's a few overlaps), that means less than 35% even submit their scores (and again no breakout for ED vs EA/RD).  The 25% is 1460, so 75% of kids submitting scores are over 1460.  And 95% of kids had a 3.75+ GPA Exactly what you'd expect. 
There is no further breakdown of data.  So not sure where you get your story. 
So in reality you have no real clue what the other 65% of students got on their SAT/ACT and the numbers go up each year as more go TO and don't submit unless they have 1540+
My kid got in NUBound/GS (full year in London) with a 3.98UW, 10 AP, and 1540 (submitted score--800 Math for engineering major) This was the year they had to offer less kids Boston because they had overenrolled the previous fall.  We are full pay, did not fill out FAFSA (so school knows you are full pay).  Cost was $85K, no meals included.  Yes, I'm 98% certain majority of kids offered this were Full pay, considering you cannot use federal financial aid for this program until back on Boston campus.  Nobody who needs aid to attend can afford $100K for a year of school without aid (hey kid has to eat as well hence the 100K) 
GS and NUIn are filled with mostly full pay kids, read the parents pages and CC and reddit. There are no "hard facts" for that but common sense indicates that has to be the case, along with antidotal evidence from online sources

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