<p>Did she find it was easy to get into the actual class? Or vice versa if not in the class was it easy just to show up and watch the lecture live?</p>
<p>She had no problem registering for the live class and I highly recommend that you do that. Kids in the live section can always watch the web sections later but there is not enough room in the lecture hall for kids who signed up for the web course and just felt like watching it live that day....at least in the first month of class. After that, many kids start watching it on the web and free up the lecture hall seats.</p>
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<p>There are ** thousands ** of students who take micro/macro economics. It is impossible not to get in the class. If you want to go to the tapings, you should show up early. As seiclan said, as the semester progresses, the lecture will free up.</p>
<p>Light speed have you been to UF? I don't know about you but I think Northeastern is a little cheesy. I did s summercamp there. It's ok. But it's just like every other mediocre semi-new college. Sure it's in downtown, but that's all it has.</p>
<p>UF has a little something called "history." It's been around since 1853. I mean I don't want to sound too cocky, but UF is hands down the better school... especially if you have grad school in mind.</p>
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<p>According to US News, the mid-50% for UF is 1160-1360. So the median is more like 1260, not 1340. Here's an 80-pt exaggeration and nobody here says anything! :rolleyes: As for Northeastern, the range is 1140-1320; its number of applications jumped more than 12% this year and topped 30,000, so the range may shift upward.</p>
<p>the IQR of SAT scores for UF is from 1220-1390 making the mean around 1310</p>
<p>Sam Lee, you were wrong about Florida football and now you are wrong again.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that UF is more selective than NU (In fact UF is the 39th most selective "National University" in the country). I can't understand why you want to spend more money to go to a lesser school. But hey this is just my honest opinion (take it or leave it). Also remember that an undergraduate degree is really not that valuable anymore, and what truly matters is where you get your MBA.</p>
<p>ChamilitaryMayne and GatorEng23,</p>
<p>The data I used was from US News and those are stats for enrolled students. The US News uses common data set. Many schools, however, love to post the stats of admitted students for their "freshmen profiles" to make its student body look stronger than it actually is. Florida is one of those schools that do that on their admission page which is easily accessed by any casual visitor. To me, it's misleading, if not dishonest.</p>
<p>The following CDS page (buried under "office of institutional planning and research") shows the stats for students enrolled in the fall 2006 (hence the stats of actual student body): <a href="http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/firstadmis.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/firstadmis.htm</a>
Mid-50% SAT 1140-1360
ACT 24-29</p>
<p>wow, I'm surprised UF's SAT/ACT middle 50% ranges didn't increase despite all the hype about how hard it is to get in now.</p>
<p>Don't worry it will be higher for the FTIC Class of 2007. I have read that we had over 25,000 applicants, and we are up over 12% from last year.</p>
<p>Go to UF for undergrad, it has a better bus program (I am an MBA Student). For a great international job here is an option to consider if you like Florida; Northwestern (not Northeastern) now has an MBA in Miami. Of course, by then, the UF MBA will also be close to "Top 25", (just my opinion). However, Northwestern will still be better and will still be here in sunny Florida. The Northwestern MBA will open doors for you.</p>
<p>According to Business Week Northeastern is #37 and UF is #47</p>
<p>Sam Lee,
I don't want to go into a lecture about reading data, but if you look at the actual distribution of the SAT scores, you will see that it is entirely possible to have the lower 20% and the upper 20% be 1140 and 1360, yet the median score is over 1300. Not every data set is an absolute normal distribution. It looks to me that after ~50%, the data is skewed to the right big time. </p>
<p>The median SAT score for UF this year was ~1310-1315. </p>
<p>Want to bet a juicy steak diner that for 2007, it is closer to a 1320-1325?</p>
<p>tomslawky,</p>
<p>The tails are at top and bottom 25%, not 20%.</p>
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<p>The skewness after the 50% doesn't affect the median since the median is where that 50% is. It doesn't move. It's the mean that will be affected.</p>
<p>Anyway, you seem to be confused where that 1310 comes from at the first place. It's based on fairly normal distribution using the middle 50% range for ADMITTED students. As I said before, UF is posting that data for marketing purpose on their admission page and burying the stats of ENROLLED students under something like "planning" department. Many colleges present stats for enrolled students (kudos to those) to give accurate picture of the student body while others do what UF does to promote and hype itself. The fact that couple of you made the mistake of comparing it with Northeastern's ENROLLED stats and that one of you still argued with me on this shows their marketing scheme is working very well. ;)</p>
<p>Why the stats for enrolled are noticeably lower? Because many of the high scoring ones used UF as safety and went elsewhere. The further up your school is ranked, the narrower the gap between the two sets. For Harvard, there's probably no difference.</p>
<p>Anyway, when comparing the same type of data, there's very little difference between UF and Northeastern.</p>
<p>By the way, I know what you were trying to say regarding median and skewness. It's possible but not likely.</p>
<p>U.S.News & World Report Undergraduate Rankings 2007</p>
<p>Ranked 29th in the country</p>
<p>Specialty Rankings Overall</p>
<h1>12 in Accounting</h1>
<h1>14 in Finance</h1>
<h1>19 in Management</h1>
<h1>9 in Marketing</h1>
<h1>13 in Quantitative analysis</h1>
<h1>12 in Real Estate</h1>
<p>Among Publics</p>
<h1>7 in Accounting</h1>
<h1>9 in Finance</h1>
<h1>14 in Management</h1>
<h1>7 in Marketing</h1>
<h1>7 in Quantitative analysis</h1>
<h1>9 in Real Estate</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.cba.ufl.edu/rankings.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.cba.ufl.edu/rankings.asp</a></p>
<p>Try <a href="http://www.ufhockey.com%5B/url%5D">www.ufhockey.com</a></p>
<p>They have ice hockey.</p>
<p>If your parents will pay the extra 45k, go to neu which you want to attend more. If you will have to foot most of the bill with loans, then its not really worth it because neu isn't top tier. You could probably do somthing similar to the co-op at UF if you looked hard enough.</p>
<p>I have enough money in the bank/college funds/mutual funds/etc to pay for 4 years anywhere. It's just whether I should spend 60-70k of it on NEU or 20-30k of it on UF.</p>