Acceptance Rate

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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<p>Does anyone know what the acceptance rate for the incoming 2012 class is?</p>

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<p>Last year it was 34% of 43,000 applicants. This year, the number went up by almost 2,000. Assuming they admit the same number of students, then the acceptance rate should be just under 33%.</p>

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<p>Actually the 34% acceptance rate last year resulted in an overenrolment of 300 students. My guess is that the freshman 2012 acceptance rate will be 30-32%. Odd that NU hasn’t announced it yet.</p>

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<p>Check out this doc on the neu site for acceptance trends…</p>

<p>[Institutional</a> Accomplishments](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/neuhome/aboutnortheastern/institutional-accomplishments.html]Institutional”>http://www.northeastern.edu/neuhome/aboutnortheastern/institutional-accomplishments.html)</p>

<p>If the link fails, go to neu.edu, About, then institutional accomplishments</p>

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<p>Ya I wonder when NEU will release the total # of applicants. NYTimes has gathered a first draft of total # of apps for some Universities. So far USC is reporting a total 46,030 applicants for '12. I bet we are very close with this number as well. The page was last updated June 6th, so it’s probably due for an update. </p>

<p>[Colleges</a> Report 2012 Admissions Statistics - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/college-admits-2012/]Colleges”>Colleges Report 2012 Admissions Statistics - The New York Times)</p>

<p>Found this “Why Boston is Great” article recently, </p>

<p>[Why</a> Boston?](<a href=“http://intern.bostonchamber.com/about-us/why-boston-/]Why”>http://intern.bostonchamber.com/about-us/why-boston-/)</p>

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<p>There were 44,189 applications for Fall, 2012 making Northeastern #2 after USC among private universities:
[Northeastern</a> receives record number of applications | news @ Northeastern](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2012/02/applications/]Northeastern”>Northeastern receives record number of applications - Northeastern Global News)</p>

<p>There are several large private universites missing from that NYT list: Northeastern, Tufts, NYU, Syracuse and Tulane.</p>

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<p>^^You consider Tufts to be large?</p>

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<p>Large is relative. Some websites consider Northeastern, with 15,000 undergraduates, to be “large”. Yet I look at University of Florida with 50,000 undergraduates when I consider a school to be “large”.</p>

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<p>Okay, major universities.</p>

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<p>Don’t get too carried away with acceptance rates. A better indicator of how you compare with students is using the freshmen matriculation data/profile.</p>

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<p>Since you suggest it, from the 2011-2012 Common Data Set for enrolled freshmen:
25th Percentile 75th Percentile
SAT Critical Reading 610 700
SAT Math 640 730
SAT Essay 600 700
ACT Composite 28 32
ACT Math 27 33
ACT English 28 33</p>

<p><a href=“http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=common_data_set[/url]”>http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=common_data_set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Just posted on the Northeastern website, for the freshman class of 2012:
Acceptance rate: 31%
Median SAT 1361/1600</p>

<p>Also, the freshman retention rate for freshmen who entered in 2011 remained at an impressive 95%.</p>

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<p>TomSr, Could you please post a link to where you found the acceptance rate info.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.facultysenate.neu.edu/documents/SENM91912.pdf[/url]”>http://www.facultysenate.neu.edu/documents/SENM91912.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks TomSr!</p>