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[quote=Anonymous][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]
NP. The new ranking formula emphasizes factors that pushed up most publics. Many in this forum may feel that those particular factors are unimportant for them personally.[/quote]

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? If what you’re saying is true, then relying is on those very same rankings, but just taking out the public schools makes no sense.[/quote]

DP here. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants to apply to a public school? [/quote]

It’s not. What I’m saying is that it’s ridiculous for someone to remove public schools from the rankings because they think the rankings are inaccurate but then uses the same rankings for just the private schools is ridiculous.  The rankings are either reliable or they are not reliable.  To say “we will use these rankings, but take out the public schools because these rankings favor  public schools“ is the stupidest thing I ever heard.[/quote]

Rankings are just reference points, and there are various other rankings. 
USN&WR ranks LACs separately. Some other rankings combine them together.
USN&WR also has a ranking for the best public schools.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
This must be ridiculous to you and stupidest thing you ever heard?? LOL

Many private schools were affected by the new methodology.
It's also a good reference seeing relative positions among the private schools.
I think it makes more sense to rank publics and privates separately just like LACs are ranked separately.
Is your kid in a public school or something? You are truly weird.

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You are an idiot. Liberal arts colleges are not separated by public or private school either.  [/quote]

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