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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown fills up its class with more than 50% early decision admits, so does BC which is 65%, Boston University is 66% Barnard 60% of freshman are early decision, Middlebury 68%, Claremont McKenna  67%, Vanderbilt 50%.

Northeastern only fills up its freshman class with 43% early decision admits.  Myth busted.[/quote]

Perhaps because not that many people apply ED binding to Northeastern because it's ... Northeastern?

This thread isn't about how popular ED is. It's about how the college does things like: 1) have zero supplemental essays so the application is 0% effort after you've made a common app personal statement, 2) have zero additional requirements - interview or optional video, 3) offer fee waivers liberally or just waive application fee altogether, 4) offer non-headquarters campus starts (at satellite locations or abroad) so they aren't counted in the admission stats. All of these tactics either encourage non-serious candidates to apply just so they can have more applications on record, or in the case of #4 hide some admission data that doesn't help their numbers.

Northeastern does all 4. So yeah myth is NOT BUSTED AT ALL.[/quote]

What drugs are you on? Northeastern's ED applications have skyrocketed in the past decade.  3,466 applied early decision in 2024. This year it's over  4,000. Not bad for a plucky former commuter school.[/quote]

Heavy marketing to international applicants selling Boston location and newly lower admission rate (heavily manipulated to defer and not accept truly high stats folks who would never accept & free and easy applications for all to encourage more casual appliers). In 2024, nearly 10,000 applications from Northeastern were actually non-US internationals.[/quote]

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