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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't Wellesley above Tufts? It's a consistent top 5 ranked LAC and it has direct cross registration privileges with MIT.

Here's WSJ/THE's ranking of the top 10 in Boston: https://graphics.wsj.com/table/COLLEGE_RANKING_BOSTON

Here's Niche's: https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/m/boston-metro-area/

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Isn't it girl's only school?
So half of the population is not interested.
Out of the half, majority is not interested in LAC, so[/quote]

Wellesley is one of the Seven Sisters schools.  For those from Boston, Tufts and Wellesley are very close to the same level, which is, very difficult for admittance. [/quote]

Added Wellesley.

- Student Stats by SAT middle 50% (2021)
TU: 1380 - 1530
BC: 1330 - 1500
BU: 1310 - 1500
NU: 1410 - 1540
WC: 1350 - 1520

- Retention Rate
TU: 95%
BC: 95%
BU: 94% 
NU: 98%
WC: 96%

- Graduation Rate
TU: 94% 
BC: 91% 
BU: 89%
NU: 91%
WC: 92%

- Salary Outcome
TU: $74K 
BC: $96K 
BU: $81K 
NU: $89K
WC: $76K

These schools are all similarly very difficult for admittance.
Looks like Wellesley belongs to this group very well.

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Utterly meaningless given how NEU “games” its stats. Easy example - it accepts many students into first semester abroad or in CA and none of those students scores are factored into these number. [/quote]

Again, most other schools accept 20-30% incoming students from transfer.
Most of them are admitted from lower tier schools. They don't provide stats on them.
For example a T20 schools like Berkeley accepts 30% incoming students from transfer and many of them are from community colleges.
30% of Columbia is  GS students who's stats are not calculated together with College of Engineering or Art & Science.  
Nobody ever question these.  
Besides many schools have first year somewhere programs.  I believe BU has one.

The quality of NU's internal transfer students are in fact almost as good as Boston direct admit students in terms of stats.
They were actually evaluated the same way and chosen with stats unlike transfer students for other schools.
Their stats are slightly lower if lower. Some of them actually have higher stats than the ones admitted in ED1 or ED2.
People just like to pick on Northeastern without thinking.

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I don't care either way about Northeastern, but at my kid's school (small SF private), every single kid who applied ED got in to the Oakland program. I know some of their stats and it surprised me (but good for them).  I think being full pay went farther than stats.[/quote]

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