<pre><code> SAT 25% 75% Rank
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<p>UCLA 1180 1450 - US news #23
NYU 1250 1450 - US news #32
Boston Coll 1260 1450 - US news #31
Georgia Tech 1260 1460 - US news #36
Northeastern 1280 1460 - US news #49
USC 1270 1480 - US news #23
UC Berkeley 1220 1490 - US news #20</p>
<p>Had anyone ever noticed this before?
What does it mean? How did they get such high entering class stats?</p>
<p>Merit scholarships are partly responsible. </p>
<p>Also, students and their parents value career preparation through coop. It is no longer considered "working class’ to do coop.</p>
<p>Boston is a big draw.</p>
<p>Great academics. </p>
<p>Etc. </p>
<p>I was told that last year they got 750 honors college students instead of the 450 they expected. So that is a large chunk of students with very high SAT scores.</p>
<p>So are they hurting financially because of this? Or do they think it is worth the price?</p>
<p>Does everyone invited to honors get a scholarship?</p>
<p>No some get honors without scholarship and some get scholarship without honors. The only exception is NMF who get both.</p>
<p>They paid to get the students they needed to get those high scores. They made them an offer a lot of them couldn’t refuse. I am not sure if the plan was to get to a point where they don’t have to pay to keep getting that level of SAT scorers-I know the full tuition NMF scholarship has been changed to 30K a year-still a great deal.</p>
<p>I think the school has gotten to a point where it’s going to continue to rise in academic rankings-they have invested a lot of money in facilities and staff and the place really is just incredible-they then invested the money to get the students-it’s all good!</p>
<p>My son loves the place-he intends to give back every cent of his scholarship if he is fortunate enough in his career to be able to do so-to repay the opportunity they gave him. He never could have gone there without that scholarship.</p>
<p>Yes Boston is a great place to go to school and they even have a campus in the middle of the city. The academics are strong as well. The COOP-it is everything they say and more…it’s not a marketing gimmick it is a central piece to the focus of the school which is experiential learning. I can’t imagine him being anywhere else!</p>
<p>@Pepper03</p>
<p>That is great to know. We will be visiting NEU in less than 2 weeks for the University Scholars Event, hoping my daughter falls in love with the place.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see if the numbers go down this year with the decrease in the NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>They also give good scholarships to students with good stats, but below NMF.
Of course, these are probably in the 10-20K range.</p>
<p>The reduction in the NMF scholarship will not affect the stats. NU is now able to choose full tuition scholarship recipients based on a more holistic model. </p>
<p>Maybe the poster meant the number of NMF’s not the test score numbers?</p>
<p>For 2012, only 58% submitted SAT scores. Also, you can’t combine the subscores in that way. 51% had 700 or higher in math; 35% had 700 or higher in critical reading.</p>
<p><a href=“Inside the Smartest Colleges Ranking”>Inside the Smartest Colleges Ranking;
<p>This is interesting.</p>
<p>It is not fair to compare the mid-50 percentile scores of state schools like UCB, GTECH, UCLA with non-state ones. It is a mandate in most state schools to have a certain percentage of instate (eg. 82% in NC, 50+% in GA) students. Compare OOS student scores for the state schools with the likes of NEU, RPI, etc. The OOS student scores are anywhere from 20 to 100 pts. higher on an avg./median than their instate counterparts in state schools.</p>
<p>Same goes for the Business Insider rankings posted earlier. To me, this is a better ranking list from Business Insider
<a href=“Best Colleges in the US”>Best Colleges in the US;
<p>I just thought the OP might find the link interesting. I think scores are overrated anyway and there are probably all kinds of different lists and comparisons. </p>
<p>I think the point is the poster is surprised at the company NEU keeps by one measure-a lot of people are surprised. I was surprised when my son was looking at it three years ago-and he tells me the two classes since he has started are more impressive than the last so at least in one students observation the school is becoming more competitive or whatever the word is you want to use for it.</p>
<p>That survey is interesting you link. The opinions of 1,000 readers of the magazine in a survey with the tie-breaker going to the cheaper school is about as valid as anything else I guess. I wonder who these readers are-I wouldn’t be surprised if there was the old boy network in those ratings.</p>
<p>The surprise on that smartest colleges list is how low BU is. My guess is this is because the tech programs at NEU attract higher scoring candidates while BU attracts a different type of student. Nonetheless my son interviewed at NEU last night and admissions told us parents that NEU had 50000 applications this year. I think the school just has so much momentum that it is going to continue to rise in popularity for the next several years and, while this is very subjective, the school now has a successful feel to it. It may not eclipse BC which owns that lovely campus on the heights but I feel like NEU will become a top 40 school in the near future. Its a much improved place from when I attended back in the 80s, believe me. </p>
<p>Re: <a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/best-colleges-in-the-us-2013”>http://www.businessinsider.com/best-colleges-in-the-us-2013</a></p>
<p>“we asked our readers what they consider to be the best colleges”</p>
<p>Pretty lame.</p>
<p>Which is why I take all these things with a huge grain of salt. I know enough about BU to know that is a fantastic school and plenty smart enough-again whatever that even means. I don’t see how you could go wrong with BC, BU or NEU academically-the decision on which to attend if considering all three would be a difficult one to make and more based on factors besides academics.</p>
<p>@collegedadnh</p>
<p>This year tons of colleges have made records in receiving admission applications… as an example…</p>
<p>UCLA –> over 100,000</p>
<p><a href=“UCLA sets records with more than 100,000 fall 2014 applicants - Daily Bruin”>http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/17/ucla-sets-records-with-more-than-100000-fall-2014-applicants/</a></p>
<p>Even a tech school like GTECH received over 25,000 apps…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/jan/07/georgia-tech-accepts-5000-early-action-students-al/”>http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/jan/07/georgia-tech-accepts-5000-early-action-students-al/</a></p>
<p>**
Georgia Tech’s average admitted student has a 4.0 GPA and an SAT score of 1485/2193 and will have taken nine college-level courses prior to high school graduation.
“We think the trend of increased selectivity will only continue with our use of the Common App,” said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. In spite of Common App glitches and woes earlier in the admission cycle, Georgia Tech saw a 37 percent increase in Early Action applications in its first year using the system, with applications continuing to come in for the Jan. 10 regular admission deadline.
**
So NEU is not alone is seeing more apps or higher average score of its applicants. Competition does not sit still…</p>