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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern[/quote]

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

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So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities?  I don't get it. [/quote]

[b]Northeastern beats UVA on most of the major metrics[/b] except for the business program.

On top of that it's in one of the best location compared to the middle of nowhere
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Didn’t you read Selingo? Northeaster manipulates everything it does to maximize US News. For example if US News has a metric like percent of classes with less than 20 students, NE puts a cap of 19 students on many classes. Its acceptance rate is bs. Tons of international crap applications. Admits tons of kids TO. The whole thing is contrived. Congrats to them though as they escaped bankruptcy. And to some extent perception has become reality. Rewind 20 years and no one who could get into UVA would probably even apply to NE. The fact that UVA remains ahead of NE in the rankings (despite NE’s constant trickery) is also meaningful. There is no comparison between Thomas Jefferson’s brainchild and a regional work study school that almost went under not so long ago.

Like what?[/quote]

Like outcome, retention rate, student quality(based on test scores), etc.[/quote][/quote]

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