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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.
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BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic. 
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate. [/quote]

Ummm.  
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.  
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.  
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.[/quote]

Disagree - it's not a safety for anyone.
Disagree - Northeastern looks for fit, in other words, students who are happy to attend and stay. 
It's evidenced in the retention rate - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
 
Agree - they mostly like high stat kids.
Strongly agree  - "The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery". 
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Retention rates are like graduation rates.  It's high for everyone.
Northeastern is absolutely a safety for anyone with good stats.
A safety school is a school where your chances of admission are higher than 60 or 70%  
High statted kids have a really high acceptance rate.  It is absolutely a safety for a kid with a 1520 SAT and an unweighted 3.6 or higher.

If your argument for why a school is good revolves around freshman retention rates, your school isn't that good.
Northeastern is need aware in admissions.
The majority of the students are not submitting test scores.
That means you are probably talking about a lot of rich kids with low test scores that can afford to pay full freight and a lot of well testing poor kids that cannot.

This is how colleges crawl up the ranks.  They provide a good deal for smart poor kids and let in less smart rich kids.
Heck Harvard does the exact same thing.
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- Retention rate and graduation rate are not high for everyone. 
- 60-70% expected success rate is not a safety.  If you choose a path and you get 40%-30% chance of death, does it sound like safe? Sounds very scary.  Safety is 98-99% chance and you have 1-2% WTF surprise factor.

- Retention rate was referenced in relation to selecting students with good fit. 
If a school choose bunch of students with bad fit, they will leave resulting in low retention.

- Test scores didn't change much compared to pre-covid when it was mandatory.

- A good is measured with combination of many major metrics such as retention rate, graduation rate, cohort quality, outcomes, etc.

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