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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BU and BC transitioned in the mid to late 80’s by John Silber and Doug Flutie. Silber was a dynamic President of BU and Flutie won the Heisman Trophy at BC in mid 80’s. Don’t know what accounts for NEU popularity?[/quote]

This is how NEU grew in popularity: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2014/08/26/how...he-college-rankings/
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Kudos to NEU. It basically says NEU played by the rules fair and square (and made vast improvements) while others were cheating.

"Meanwhile, other schools that couldn’t successfully game the system were trying to cheat their way to the top.
In 2008, Baylor University told newly admitted students that they’d receive a $300 campus-bookstore credit if they retook their SATs, and $1,000 a year in student aid if the scores improved by more than 50 points. In 2009, an administrator at Clemson University, whose president shared Freeland’s rankings fixation, admitted the school misrepresented financial information and purposefully rated institutions low on the peer assessments.

In 2011, Iona College officials admitted to misreporting acceptance rates, SAT scores, graduation rates, and alumni donation amounts over the course of a decade. In 2012, Claremont McKenna College copped to misreporting SAT scores for several years. Also in 2012, George Washington University admitted to inflating the percentage of students who graduated at the top of their high school classes, and [b]Emory University[/b] said it had misreported high school GPAs for four years and SAT scores for nearly a dozen years."

UCBerkeley and Columbia are some of the recent high profile examples.
I [b]almost think it's might be Emory haters who keep posting the article.
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Probably a Northeastern or BC grad. They have a fixation against Emory. [/quote]

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