<p>An interesting tool. Top 500 colleges listed by SAT (IQ) Score. I am shocked by how high
some “Elite” colleges are ranked with such so so students.</p>
<p><a href=“Complete Ranking of America's Smartest Colleges”>Complete Ranking of America's Smartest Colleges;
<p>The SAT is a IQ test. See your estimated IQ on the link below.</p>
<p><a href=“How to estimate your IQ based on your GRE or SAT scores”>http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/greiq.aspx</a> </p>
<p>Lots of schools (in the USNWR 25 - 50 rankings) have made improvements this year I guess. Take a look at Gtech`s Freshman class 2014 profile.</p>
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<p>On top of this, Gtech (#36) is a state school and admits more than 50% from Georgia alone. The question which will be answered in September is whether NEU has done enough to make a sizeable jump from #49.</p>
<p>Ranking students by SAT scores in the new Forbes</p>
<p><a href=“Top 100 SAT Scores Ranking: Which Colleges Have The Brightest Kids?”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/schifrin/2014/08/04/top-100-sat-scores-ranking-which-colleges-have-the-brightest-kids/</a></p>
<p>If we use the 2014 score, Northeastern goes from 35 to 29 so perhaps expect a similar jump in US News? Low 40’s?</p>
<p>@flyingchickenXD Sorry that I am only just jumping in on this, and I have no idea what school you ended up picking, but I just transferred out of Northeastern for this coming fall because of what I perceived to be a lack of value. I do not believe it to be worthy of the rankings vault it has accomplished over the last few years. As the fifth of five members of my family to go to college, if you want to go to the most prestigious school possible, go to the highest ranked, oldest, largest-endowment school you can. I’m thinking old-money from Great Gatsby old. But, that is all in the eye of the beholder.</p>
<p>I certainly hope you have a better experience than I if you chose it, but looking at the schools you were accepted to, I would have, drop-dead, picked UNC or Wake Forest over Northeastern. I looked at both of those schools out of high school and would have figuratively killed to roll the clock back and apply to them and gone there instead of Northeastern after the way my Northeastern experience went.</p>
<p>@jack2992: Looking at your posting history
<a href=“Ask an OSU student! - #2 by jack992 - Ohio State University - College Confidential Forums”>Ask an OSU student! - #2 by jack992 - Ohio State University - College Confidential Forums;
it appears that you made a bad choice of schools as a freshman. You do not like city living nor urban campuses. You were looking for a traditional 4 year campus with the “traditional college experience” that Northeastern never claimed to offer. In fact NU emphasizes that it is not the traditional college experience. Also, I have no idea what you mean by “…starting down the destructive path I was on at my old school.” </p>
<p>Just because Northeastern was a bad fit for you does not mean that it isn’t a great school for others.</p>
<p>Good luck at Ohio State. </p>
The Co-op program is fantastic. My daughter just accepted a 6 mo. co-op at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, rotating through surgery, sports med, rehab… An is getting calls from Mass General, Boston Children’s, etc. Fantastic school.
BU is a fine school. But NEU is pulling away. Check the SAT scores. NEU will be a top 20 school within 3 years.
Even at a constant rate of 7 spots per year (the last two jumps), they would still be just outside the Top 20. I think it’s safe to assume the jumps will start to decrease soon. NEU will certainly keep rising, but it’s not going to be in the Top 20 in three years, nor IMO does it currently deserve it.
In three years I would expect it to be around 30. IMO, that’s what it should be now. If the school’s actual quality keeps increasing over those years, the Top 20 is MAYBE possible after three more. Regardless, the curve is going to level out a bit.
I will say this: NEU isn’t just improving in rank. You see it as a student: better faculty are added each year, buildings / housing options pop up, and new tools are introduced. NEU is currently launching a new and improved co-op and career web tool for use by its students that will be complete come Fall 2016. This is a significant improvement on the already top ranked career services department.
Northeastern’s limited endowment will likely prevent it from rising above the mid 30’s.
One note though: I graduated way back when and NU has always had a great teaching faculty. They were not as heavily into research back then, I had mostly great professors (there were a couple of duds like at any school).
If finances were taken out of college decision my son would probably not be going to NEU.
Point being that NEU is going out of it’s way to recruit kids with high academic scores.
They are doing it by offering better financial packages than other schools and in our case by a wide margin.
SAT/ACT scores for admitted kids at NEU are well above where NEU ranking suggests they should be.
I definitely agree with TomSr’s note about the endowment. I really don’t know much about them, but money matters - BU has a good 300 million dollar advantage over NEU in that respect. Good news is that, if NEU is doing this well with a relatively limited endowment, I would expect it to overwhelmingly overcome BU and BC if its endowment grows anywhere close to their size.
I got an email a few days ago on a mailing list of some fellow alums who said that northeastern needs 2,500 more alumni to donate in the next 15 days to get an additional 1.5% in the rankings formula. Not sure exactly how that works, but contributions from alumni definitely favor the established classic schools like ivy league.