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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Texas saw a massive increase, from 72,000 to 90,000.  USC got more than 42,000 EA applications.  UVA saw a huge spike.  Northeastern went from 98,000 applications to over 107,000.   Overall, applications in the Common App increased from 6.3 million to 6.7 million.

I thought that the demographic cliff would be kicking in, but it looks like it is harder than ever.[/quote]
Two of those are a great educational value 
Northeastern likely up from marketing and fee waivers [/quote]

Northeastern is actually better performing  school than the other two[/quote]
Lol.  Sure. [/quote]

Granny, wake up.[/quote]
You are seriously delusional if you think anyone puts NEU above UT and Michigan.  [/quote]

Retention
NEU 97%
UT 96%

Graduation
NEU 90%
UT 84%

4-year-out salary outcome
NEU 93K
UT $75K

Acceptance rate, yield rate, median SAT, ect., NEU beats UT in every metrics.
Wake the F up to 2025 granny, it's not 1986.[/quote]

The demographic at UT includes a lot of FGLI kids that get in through the 6% rule from low income high schools and they tend to drop out at higher rates. There was a 60 minutes episode about the difficulties these FGLI face when they enroll at UT. I don’t think the numbers reflect that NEU is a better quality school. [/quote]

This is the same at the majority of flagship state schools.  That's why you see even schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA have such low 25% SAT's (precovid).  Flagships take students from all the high schools and some of these high schools are very low performing but get the same percentage of students admitted as the higher performing ones.  Iowa has open admissions practically.  Illinois admits a large percentage of students from Chicago who need remediation. Schools like Northeastern and other private schools don't have the same mandate.[/quote]

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