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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]speaking of happiness, retention rate and graduation rate would be good measures.

For retention rate, Northeastern is #3 among national universities
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

For graduation rate, Northeastern is #29 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/

It's 21st century, age of data and information.  
Hope you parents and students make good informed decisions. 
Good luck.

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Except the NE data is always skewed because they report only for kids who started in Boston freshman year.  The data they report accounts for less than half the kids in a graduating class

I actually have nothing against the school but the posters who continue to tout the incomplete data after being told why it is misleading te super annoying.[/quote]

Do the kids that start in other locations--internationally or outside of Boston have lower credentials ? Is that why they aren't included in the stats?[/quote]

That’s the rumor.  No one can say because zero data is released about them.[/quote]

The "non-boston start" kids do not really have lower stats.  Everyone admitted has high stats.  Majority of those kids are Full pay because the programs are expensive and you cannot use federal aid for them.  last year Nu Bound in London was over $85K and NO FOOD was included in that price.  So you are looking at $90K+ easily.  My kid was admitted, their stats were inline with the CDS[/quote]
I do seem to recall that, last year, some high-stats kids were admitted to NEU but not for Boston. The full pay angle you suggest makes sense.

However, if NEU is admitting high-stats full pay kids to not-Boston, it is easy to imagine that the yield would be abysmal. My (high stats full pay NMSF) kid might prefer NEU to, say, BU, but not enough to attend a not-Boston NEU campus for any period of time and would view such an acceptance as a rejection. Those anecdotes from the last admission season really made me question what the heck NEU is doing.

(As a parent of a kid currently in the application process, I am neither a booster nor a basher. I just want accurate information.)[/quote]

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