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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]speaking of happiness, retention rate and graduation rate would be good measures.

For retention rate, Northeastern is #3 among national universities
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

For graduation rate, Northeastern is #29 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/

It's 21st century, age of data and information.  
Hope you parents and students make good informed decisions. 
Good luck.

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Except the NE data is always skewed because they report only for kids who started in Boston freshman year.  The data they report accounts for less than half the kids in a graduating class

I actually have nothing against the school but the posters who continue to tout the incomplete data after being told why it is misleading te super annoying.[/quote]

Do the kids that start in other locations--internationally or outside of Boston have lower credentials ? Is that why they aren't included in the stats?[/quote]

That’s the rumor.  No one can say because zero data is released about them.[/quote]

The "non-boston start" kids do not really have lower stats.  Everyone admitted has high stats.  Majority of those kids are Full pay because the programs are expensive and you cannot use federal aid for them.  last year Nu Bound in London was over $85K and NO FOOD was included in that price.  So you are looking at $90K+ easily.  My kid was admitted, their stats were inline with the CDS[/quote]

Did your kid actually attend?  Anecdote is not the same as data.  If the stats were the same, NE would release them.  Emory provides all stats  for students who start at their Oxford campus.[/quote]

My kid did not attend--they wanted to spend their freshman year on the main campus not overseas studying abroad---they also wanted to take meaningful courses for their degree freshman year and with all their AP credits there were not high enough level math courses for them (would not have had a math class to take fall semester as an engineering major).  
However, they were admitted NUBound, and were slightly above the 50% for the CDS for that year (2022 fall) for the admitted students on the Boston campus.  So given that only 33% of those admitted submitted SAT scores (and only 11% for ACT, and lets assume at least 4-5% of those were double) so approximately only 40% or less of students submitted scores, and my kid was above the 50%, so I'd argue that there were likely plenty in the "not included in the data points" who were above the 50% and would not "drag down the scores". If anything including my kid's data point would have actually RAISED the scores in the CDS.

Maybe 5-8 years ago, those admitted to NUIn had slightly lower scores (note I stated slightly, because it was still competitive back then).  In the last 3-5 years I don't believe that's the case anymore.  Also, it's highly likely that majority of the 60% of kids who started fall in Boston who did NOT submit scores had lower scores than my kid---my kid just choose to submit their scores (790 math to show strength for engineering major).  [/quote]

Admitted kids with high stats who chose not to enroll don’t really tell us anything about the stats of the kids who did enroll.[/quote]

It demonstrates that kids admitted to "off campus fall starts" are NOT just kids with "lower stats".
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