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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird take — writer is upset that they LIE because they only give the main campus numbers and so many more are accepted to other programs, but goes on to say no one wants those other programs when they apply. Well, if applicants only want the main campus, then that 5% or whatever stat isn’t a lie, is it?[/quote]

NP yeah, it is.

Using easy number, if 20,000 apply and 2000 are admitted to the main campus and 4000 are admitted to satellite campuses, their acceptance rate is 30% but they report it at 10%. [/quote]
But the main campus is what people care about, so it's accurate to say that the main campus has a 10% acceptance rate.

In the case of NEU, even if you included all the side channels, you would get a total acceptance rate of around 10%, which is still very low.[/quote]

No I don't think you understand. They're counting everyone in the denominator for their acceptance rate, even those that applied to any of their campuses (London, NYC, Seattle, Oakland etc.) but they're only counting the students that start on the Boston campus as the only students in the numerator. That artificially reduces the numerator while counting every single applicant to any campus in the denominator. And all those people who start out in satellite campuses with lower stats and lower ECs/recs eventually find themselves on the Boston campus and become the peer group. So you go to school with a big span of different students that reflects the different selectivity standards. It's odd enviro and also misleading to students and parents.[/quote]

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