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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question, what does it matter what their acceptance rate is? Are people really choosing a school based on it's acceptance rate? [/quote]

It seems like some parents weren't familiar with Northeastern and became attracted by the low published acceptance rate. Then when they finally got a clue they got all butthurt about it and now trash the school any chance they get.

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I am flabbergasted how parents can agree to sink significant money into this school without even doing basic research on the history/trajectory of a school. I'm no expert, but even I googled NEU and read Selingo's excellent chapter on how they artificially climbed the rankings by gaming class size (essentially creating numerous classes of 1-2 students only that few students had heard of or knew about) when class size was an important metric for USNWR rankings. When USNWR dropped that criteria, they stopped those fake tiny classes. Now to game admission rate, they hide half their accepted students and label them as rejected for purposes of calculating the rate so that they can seem so desirable.

My advice to prospective students and parents is DO YOUR RESEARCH before spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on any college. And if you find out something you don't like after accepting, it's not irrevocable. You can transfer or switch.

Be informed everyone. [/quote]

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