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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you get more kids to apply by gaming the system, it doesn't mean they are a great school because they turn away 80% of the kids. It means, they were smart with gaming the system. They are not a top 20 school, nor will they ever be. And as for the co-op program, students complain that it makes it really hard to have consistent friendships on campus. Furthermore, every school, at least every school I've visited, have amazing internship programs and often pay the kids for them, So... I'm not sure what the appeal of the co-op is....[/quote]

Some schools get a lot of kids to apply to them by having a great football team.
A lot of "great schools" with great rankings have those rankings because of their "elite" reputation--despite the fact that students will be taught by graduate students the entire time they are there and may never get in to the classes they want to take.
Literally, every colleges raves about their "internships" and "study abroad programs" and "opportunities for undergraduate research" and "student relationships with professors" and "small class sizes"....but most schools have maybe one or two of those things that they do really well.  For NE, it's the co-op.  It may not be important for all kids, but for some kids, it's really appealing. Just like for some kids, an urban school is really appealing (I don't get it but it's a real thing).

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