Is that true? Are we talking about acceptance rate here?
I wouldn’t consider BU’s first year 36.9% acceptance rate to be that much less “selective” than NEU’s 32.3% (although I think these are 2013 numbers).
But for transfers, doesn’t BU actually have a lower acceptance rate than NEU? Both receive about 2500 applications, yet NEU admits about 50% while BU admits about 33%.
Maybe my data is a little old, but I don’t see how these two schools’ acceptance rates are really that different, and more importantly the transfer rate is lower at BU.