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[quote=Anonymous]Northeastern's good.. great even... all about fit for the right student. But I don't think it's anything special.

Having witnessed three DCs' and their peers' college processes, I'm just not impressed with Northeastern—didn't make it onto any of my DCs' lists.

Sure the acceptance rate is low, but it's not viewed in accordance with that around Boston. TONS of kids from the Boston suburbs go every year, it's not a crazy admit. A lot who go seem kind of basic, nerdy, computer science oriented. Also a lot of nouveau riche, and kids in a very blatantly aspirational pursuit of wealth.

Also, the most blatant yield protection ever—I've seen NEU reject valedictorians but take kids much lower in the high school class who NEU knows will enrol. Then they send hundreds of kids abroad for their first semester or year, and they're technically enrolled in like "professional studies" or some other academic unit of the university where their admits are excluded from the acceptance rate, and their standardized test scores are not reported. So they inflate their numbers, deflate their acceptance rate.

So definitely a great fit for some, and honestly kudos to them. I want everyone to find their best fit! Northeastern seems great, but it doesn't seem like an intellectual place, or one I'm particularly impressed with over other colleges. The acceptance rate doesn't say much when they engineer it so hard.[/quote]

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