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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the US News rankings out and northeastern taking a big hit in the ranks, I was absolutely floored when I saw the stats that this school boasts.

An acceptance rate of 7% and sat averages on par with northwestern and higher than a couple of the ivies, can anyone explain without getting too into the weeds why this school is ranked so low but has extremely high levels of selectivity?

How is this school generally perceived in the DC area?[/quote]

Northeastern is one of the most applied-to private schools, together with schools like NYU and BU, from the DMV area.
Schools like NYU also hit hard, but their acceptance rate will continue to be a single digit.
BU defended pretty well, but it's still relatively low-ranked in the 40s, yet it maintains relatively high level of selectivity.

Northeastern is popular because of several major factors it's doing well: salary outcome, peer quality, location, retention/graduation rate, etc.
It's top-notch in these major areas.

If you look at private schools, there's really not much change, and Northeastern is still in a good position.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, [b]Northeastern[/b]
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

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This has to be the stupidest response I’ve ever seen. Why would you take out all of the public schools?  With them included, Northeastern is 53rd.

Bizarre omission. [/quote]

Not everyone wants a public school, for their own reasons, and that is fine. [/quote]

That doesn’t change the rankings though.  NEU is 53rd among national universities.  Not 31st.  53rd.  [/quote]

[b]Applicants and particularly, accepted students to any top schools, including NEU, do not consult rankings for their educated decisions. [/b][/quote]

If that were true for NEU, they would not have felt so compelled to game the ranking system.[/quote]

Whatever NEU and any other of the many schools do to legitimately "game" rankings is of no issue, to those of us who know which schools are the better schools.

You may wish to ask yourself why rankings matter so much to you, and why you keep posting about them. [/quote]

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