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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Why are you so obsessed with ED? Harvard does ED too, doesn't change the fact that on a percentage basis NEU is more selective.

Because NEU lets in a many kids on ED then very few on EA and RD.

Their application has no essay which then prompts many EA and RD applications. Since they filled most of class on ED, most get rejected and waitlist. Boom, low acceptance rate and high yield. Of course they are not the only school playing these games but truly selective schools don’t do this.

Below is from and email sent to counselors last fall after MEU ED1 was released:
3,400 applications
1,470 admitted to Boston campus
160 students to Oakland
480 students to NU.in
145 London Campus
"more than" 75 Global Scholars
70 NU immerse

Anonymous wrote:ED was invented by the Ivies to increase yield and lower acceptance rate in the 1970s or something like that LOL Schools like UPenn had 70% acceptance rate in the past. After they got on the high ground and secured dominance, some of them like Harvard Yale turned to REA. LOL Others still have them. LOL

Prestige whores who have no clue today blame schools like NYU Tufts Northeastern for utilizing ED. If you don't like ED, bame them for inventing that LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Why are you so obsessed with ED? Harvard does ED too, doesn't change the fact that on a percentage basis NEU is more selective.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Why are you so obsessed with ED? Harvard does ED too, doesn't change the fact that on a percentage basis NEU is more selective.

Because NEU lets in a many kids on ED then very few on EA and RD.

Their application has no essay which then prompts many EA and RD applications. Since they filled most of class on ED, most get rejected and waitlist. Boom, low acceptance rate and high yield. Of course they are not the only school playing these games but truly selective schools don’t do this.

Below is from and email sent to counselors last fall after MEU ED1 was released:
3,400 applications
1,470 admitted to Boston campus
160 students to Oakland
480 students to NU.in
145 London Campus
"more than" 75 Global Scholars
70 NU immerse

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Why are you so obsessed with ED? Harvard does ED too, doesn't change the fact that on a percentage basis NEU is more selective.

Because NEU lets in a many kids on ED then very few on EA and RD.

Their application has no essay which then prompts many EA and RD applications. Since they filled most of class on ED, most get rejected and waitlist. Boom, low acceptance rate and high yield. Of course they are not the only school playing these games but truly selective schools don’t do this.

Below is from and email sent to counselors last fall after MEU ED1 was released:
3,400 applications
1,470 admitted to Boston campus
160 students to Oakland
480 students to NU.in
145 London Campus
"more than" 75 Global Scholars
70 NU immerse

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Why are you so obsessed with ED? Harvard does ED too, doesn't change the fact that on a percentage basis NEU is more selective.

Anonymous wrote:From my dd’s private school, her 3 friends who got into Northeastern all got in ed(2 Boston campus, 1 London to start). Well-rounded nice kids in uw3.8+/1450-1500sat range. Seems they were happy to take Neu over taking a shot at perhaps higher ranked schools. Know of # of other kids from dd’s school with higher stats(uw4.0/1500+) who mostly all got into t25’s not get in applying both ea & rd.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone disputes Northeastern's retention rate is top 10 in the country.

Part of the reason is pretty simple. Some schools, especially larger publics, have to weed out kids. It's the nature of the business.

Northeastern admits to the university, and not to a college and/or degree. They just try to get the smartest kids they can. Obviously the ones who show up are academically capable.

If you get into Northeastern, you will graduate from Northeastern.

Unless they are cooking this metric too.

NEU tries to get the smartest kids they think will attend. Not the smartest kids.

?? Sound perfectly normal just like most other schools??
Who wants to offer admission to students seem not really interested???

How do they know who is interested? Guess based on whether you had money to visit or application is good but not too good?

Actual top schools admit who they think are the best candidates. State schools too.

Remember? A lot of too good applications were rejected by the very actual top school like Harvard. It got sued and lost LOL

NEU is more selective than Harvard though

Yup they are both selective and doing the same thing.

I would argue NEU gets the more selective crowd with higher stat students, Harvard focuses on well rounded with hooks, versus high stats, it explains why NEU is twice as selective with 3-4% acceptance rate.

No need to argue.
Again we live in the 21st century and data and information is readily available.

This was in 2018 when test was mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
#7 Harvard: 1497
#25 Northeastern: 1435

Harvard is little bit higher.
Northeastern likes well rounded kids, so they promote interdisciplinary approach with many combined majors.

What Northeastern relatively lacks compared to Harvard is extra decorations, namely hooks such as fancy ECs, rich legacy families, playing exotic sports, etc. It takes those extras and luck to break into the T20 sort of schools. If you have high stats and ED to Northeastern, they'll take you. It's fairly straightforward so many high stat kids without those fancy decorations skip the lottery and ED to schools like Northeastern, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, WF, Emory, etc. 

It's interesting you pulled the test scores but didn't pull the acceptance rates.

Harvard: 7.5%
NEU: 3.2%

And the ED acceptance rate?

Putting those two schools in the same sentence makes you look stupid.

I think this is a troll since no one is this dumb.

Anonymous wrote:From my dd’s private school, her 3 friends who got into Northeastern all got in ed(2 Boston campus, 1 London to start). Well-rounded nice kids in uw3.8+/1450-1500sat range. Seems they were happy to take Neu over taking a shot at perhaps higher ranked schools. Know of # of other kids from dd’s school with higher stats(uw4.0/1500+) who mostly all got into t25’s not get in applying both ea & rd.

Anonymous wrote:From my dd’s private school, her 3 friends who got into Northeastern all got in ed(2 Boston campus, 1 London to start). Well-rounded nice kids in uw3.8+/1450-1500sat range. Seems they were happy to take Neu over taking a shot at perhaps higher ranked schools. Know of # of other kids from dd’s school with higher stats(uw4.0/1500+) who mostly all got into t25’s not get in applying both ea & rd.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU acceptance rate is actual 1.8% for 2024.

No, was more like 40%

Anonymous wrote:NEU acceptance rate is actual 1.8% for 2024.