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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy App. Gamed the system and people have been easily duped. It’s working, they’re getting the applications and ED at that.[/quote]

I understand the full picture (e.g., how they set out to climb in USNWR rankings), but I find these comments dumb. We've now visited 10 very competitive colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern is like no other. In fact I have a brother who works in Boston and he said that sometimes kids from other boston area colleges have trouble getting internships etc because folks take Northeastern kids.

So 2 things can be true... NE worked to game the system AND it's actually become a great school with rare opportunities and lots of smart kids. 
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What are these “Rare” opportunities that you claim for the school? Many others offer Co-ops. So what is it at NEU that is rare? [/quote]

Co-op opportunities at a coveted school in a great college city.[/quote]

why is co-op popular?  don't we work our whole lives- i would've hated to miss one semester of college to go work (and there's nothing for an undergrad besides research to do in my field so would've been a waste or just a desolate campus if all my friends left).  [b]also what's up with the start college abroad?  is that to some how game the system- like they don't count in the stats if they don't start in main campus the way some schools do january freshmen to evade the stats?[/b] [/quote]

Interesting and probably accurate.[/quote]

The stats for "non Boston start" programs are not lower (may have been 10 years ago but not now).  However, majority of the "non Boston start" are full pay/rich kids.   It's Jan start or sophomore start except NEU has found a way to capitalize on it by requiring you to start freshman fall at one of their many "off campus locations". [/quote]
Proof?  Don't think there is any since NEU not reporting any stats on non-Boston start kids[/quote]

I personally know kids in several of those programs and I follow the Parents pages (have an upcoming kid who might be interested and one who applied a few years ago but chose not to attend).  They have almost 100K applications. The kids in these programs have 1500+ and near perfect GPAs and tons of AP courses (most have 6-8+AP courses).  That is not "lower stats". There are kids in those programs with 1580-1600 and 4.0 UW.  The notion that these kids are 1400, 3.7UW and no APs is not accurate.  
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Not from what I have seen on college confidential, reddit, and knowledge of admitted students from our local HS. [/quote]

All anonymous. Fascinating! DP here. Ie: there are multiple posters who find OP’s rantings insane. [/quote]

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