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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others.[/quote]
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Rice+University&with=Northeastern+University
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Northeastern+University[/quote]

Not sure how reliable parchment is when the sample size is so small.  It's been shown it has little validity for most comparisons.  The same parchment says 60% choose Harvard, and 40% choose Northeastern.  That figure isn't accurate.

But it looks like 1/3 of the kids go to Northeastern and 2/3 go to Emory. Parchment also claims that 20% choose Emory over Harvard.  I very seriously doubt that.  Harvard's yield is 80%. And of the 20% who decline Harvard, the vast majority are doing so for Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, not Emory.

Parchment also says that 2/3 of students choose Northeastern, and 1/3 choose Boston University.  I would venture that the sample size is much larger and that probably is decently accurate.

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You clearly didn't read the website and its notations about statistical confidence levels carefully.[/quote]

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