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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Northeastern number is really sus

It has no business being in the same range as Princeton, Penn, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern.

I don't know what voodoo magic that school is doing. It was a commuter school for cops from Revere twenty years ago.[/quote] I'm from Boston too so I know you're true. 
But you're going to get branded as "The Northeastern Hater" and your posts will be deleted. [/quote]

With respect to Northeastern, even the most virulent NEU hater will admit that the quality of students, teachers, facilities, research and outcomes is so far different than the 1980's.  30 years ago, BC's acceptance rate was over 50% and any decent kid was accepted.  It was filled with parochial school kids who were average in their not-so-rigorous high school.  30 years ago, BU's College of Basic Studies was an open-enrollment college.  Pre-covid, NEU's average SAT score was 1500. Post-covid with test optional, a million kids think that they can get a lottery ticket in, so they apply.  They attract the top kids that would be indistinguishable from Cornell or Dartmouth if you swapped them out.

And I'll say it out loud, from my DC's high school, NEU is a hotter school than BU. [/quote]

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