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[quote=Anonymous]This is a really interesting article, even though it's from 2014: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/

This quote is especially interesting, and possibly why it feels like NEU is unique among other schools. The emphasis on admitting so many kids abroad for their first semester seems like an outlier...It's a way to deal with the overcrowding on the Boston campus, AND a way to increase the scores ranking. Also, the cost of actual attendance for a school in, say Ireland, is MUCH less than a US school, so is NEU charging 80k for a much less expensive foreign program, and then pocketing the difference? This is not unique to Northeastern, of course. All universities run the study abroad racket.

[i]"Aoun also began using spring enrollment to his advantage. In 2007 the school introduced N.U.in, a program that invites students with lower grades and SAT scores to spend their first semester abroad and begin their on-campus experience in the spring. U.S. News does not collect data for spring entrants, so those students’ lower grades and scores are excluded from the rankings. Editor Brian Kelly explains that U.S. News doesn’t require spring data because the federal government doesn’t either, but he concedes, “It’s possible that is a gaming window.”[/i][/quote]

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