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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]only 31% submit test scores. 69% of freshman rank in top 10% of class. acceptance rate is low along with student quality[/quote]

And remember those stats are for the subset of students they report data on, i.e. does not include the students starting late, abroad or at other campuses.  [/quote]

And those "off Boston start" students are not really lower stats.  With 100K+ students to choose from, there are plenty of high stats kids.  Most off Boston start are high income, as FA doesn't apply at all of the programs.

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That isn't the case for Northeastern, though; they don't need to tap into a significantly lower pool at all.[/quote]

But they do.  Most kids apply to NEU because they want to be in Boston. To fill out the profit centers in Oakland, London and everywhere else, they have to deal with a materially lower yield percentage. If a “high stats” kid gets into NE Oakland, chances are they are getting into a normal school that doesn’t send them to a satellite money grab for the formative first semester of their college experience. So…they go down the food chain to pull the raw number of top-of-the-funnel students to yield what they need to fill the beds in the less desirable campuses.  And, they don’t want to report that for fear of tarnishing the click-n-pay application factory that allows them to mislead families into believe that it’s a hyper-competitive admit.

It’s well-done but obvious, not sure why there is such resistance unless parents “need” to think that their NEU kid is at some kind of top-tier competitive school. [/quote]

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