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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]mind boggling it’s only ranked #44 by USN given the level of selectivity and superlative quality of the admits.  Is a gem that punches well above its weight, legitimately competing with the lower half of T25 (WashU, Cornell, Emory..)

let the haters hate but tippy top kids are applying (and often rejected) in droves..[/quote]

Do they even admit any tippy top kids? They seems to prefer the next tier down..[/quote]

Northeastern likes high stat kids.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10

This was when test scores were mendatory.
Top 20 for national universities

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Cornell is

First of all, this list is from 2016.  Wasn't that around the time NE was engaging in questionable tactics to rank higher in USNWR?  And where are you getting top 20?  These are the top 20.  NE is 25, so not sure why you need to twist the truth here.  Amazing how these boosters try to spin stuff to make their school look like something it absolutely is not.

1. Caltech (1544)
2. MIT (1507)
3. Olin College of Eng. (1506)
3. Chicago (1506)
5. Yale (1498)
5. Vanderbilt (1498)
7. Harvard (1497)
8. Princeton (1490)
9. Harvey Mudd (1484)
10, Rice (1482)
11. Stanford (1479)
12. Columbia (1473)
13. WashU (1469)
14. Northwestern (1460)
15. Penn (1457)
15. Brown (1457)
17. Notre Dame (1455)
18. Hopkins (1453)
19. Amherst (1451)
20. Duke (1450)

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NE use to buy national merit finalists with full,scholarships.  They don’t do that anymore and instead just take lots of kids test optional.[/quote]

TO rate for most of the 'elite' schools is 50-60%.  
Northeastern is about average.

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This is false.  Nearly every top 20 is 30 percent or less TO, exceptions are Columbia and Candy which are closer to 40.  60 percent TO is an outlier, at least for schools that weren't TO prior to covid.[/quote]

Provide source? 
These are some from the Notre Dame thread

"50% of Notre Dame is test optional. Washu is also 50% and Cornell is 70 % test optional."

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College Confidential, Note that I am talking about the percentage of students [b]accepted[/b] test optional, I believe you are referring to percentage of [b]applicants[/b] overall.

all 2021 Admits: 100% - % Submitted SAT - % Submitted [ACT]
Caltech – 100% not reported (test blind)
Northeastern – 58%
Barnard/Vassar – 49%
Hamilton – 48%
CMC --47%
Middlebury/Smith – 46%
Tufts – 45%
Emory 1:Oxford / Tulane – 44%
Vanderbilt/Brandeis – 43%
WUSTL/RPI – 42%
Haveford/Wellesley – 41%
Harvey Mudd / Swarthmore – 40%
Cornell – 39%
…
Stanford – 21%
Brown/Penn – 19%
Northwestern – 18%
Chicago – 16%
Harvard – 15%
GeorgiaTech / Yale – 11%
Princeton – 9%
MIT: Negative 4% (some submitted both)

GT has since gone back to requiring test scores.
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