<p>You are comparing admitted student scores to enrolled student scores. </p>
<p>Also, Northeastern accepts many lower scoring applicants to begin in January in an effort to dupe the rankings. Northeastern is a very average school. BU is very similar but better.</p>
<p>I think Northeastern is more selective than BU and probably is a better school as well in many areas</p>
<p>In greater Boston, BC, BU, and NU are in the same academic ballpark.</p>
<p>@RisingChemist</p>
<p>The only school trying to “dupe” people is Boston College. Their applications have dropped by 36% (25,000 applicants) over the past year! NU, BU, Harvard, MIT and UMass-Amherst all have seen increases in applications. BC is just a less attractive school today then it was 5-10 years ago. This could be for many reasons, however, BC’s director “assures” us that the drop was “deliberate”. He is trying to persuade people it was a result of a new “supplementary essay” section on their application process that discouraged people to apply. Really? It would have been more believable if he would have said the church’s scandals hurt the school’s image, or the fact that they charge over $50k a year. </p>
<p>There is no fact here and only offers a bias opinion: “You are comparing admitted student scores to enrolled student scores. Also, Northeastern accepts many lower scoring applicants to begin in January in an effort to dupe the rankings.”. The fact is that BC is a smaller school than BU and NU. Why their admission rates tend to be lower. Do the math.</p>
<p>By the way, as far as Northeastern University being average you are far wrong. NU (and BU) are on the SAME level BC. For example, NU’s business school, now D’Amore-McKim School of Business received a $60 million donation last year. That’s the 9th largest donation to a business school in US history, and the largest donation in history to any business school in New England, including highly ranked schools like Harvard and MIT ([AACSB</a> International Facilities Resource Center](<a href=“http://www.aacsb.edu/resources/facilities/donors.asp]AACSB”>http://www.aacsb.edu/resources/facilities/donors.asp)). “Average” schools do not receive donations of this size from their alumni. Another good example is NU is the nations sixth most pop<em>ular higher edu</em>ca<em>tion des</em>ti<em>na</em>tion among inter<em>na</em>tional stu<em>dents from all over the world (according to the Insti</em>tute of Inter<em>na</em>tional Educations annual Open Doors Report)… I would find your “average” remark very ignorant.</p>
<p>Northeastern has been one of the fastest rising schools in US News Rankings in the past 15 years so it’s not surprising they’ve finally surpassed BC and BU in SAT scores. I do not know if you have been paying attention to the current economic climate, but NU’s cooperative education program has become the model for modern universities. Businesses today want students with real world experience–which NU is the leader in (even Harvard Business School a few years ago admitted they needed to embrace more of an experiential learning approach over case studies).</p>
<p>So let’s keep it to the facts. To say even that BC is on a different level than BU and NU is completely false. They are all on the same level. NU’s SAT scores are as legitimate as any other schools (including BC and BU), and at the moment are higher than BC’s. </p>
<p>Here’s the article: [Applications</a> rise at Harvard, MIT, and BU, but BC celebrates its decline - Metro - The Boston Globe](<a href=“BC celebrates its decline in applications - The Boston Globe”>BC celebrates its decline in applications - The Boston Globe)</p>
<p>@havemydegree</p>
<p>I find it quite ironic that someone calls another user for being “ignorant” when he/she himself/herself goes as far as to make similarly unfounded assumptions about other schools. Also hilarious how you call someone else bias when your clearly trying to push an agenda by creating a new CC account so as to attack BC and promote Northeastern.</p>
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<p>This is a ridiculous statement. The school’s total applications has consistently been on the rise and hit an all-time high with 34k+ total apps last year for the class of 2016, so I can’t see any truth in your statement that “BC was a less attractive school than it was 5-10 years ago” . Obviously the implementation of the supplementary essay was intended to better identify student interest and increase yield % which was on the decline as applications increased over the years. I see no reason to doubt the likelihood that applicants would be less inclined to toss an application in if it required them to write another 400+ word essay.</p>
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<p>BU’s median SAT scores are ~100 points lower than both NEU and BC. The general academic quality of admitted students at BU ARE NOT on the same standard as BC or NEU. As far as NU being on the “SAME level” as BC, I have never seen any credible ranking of academic quality that has suggested BC and NU to be peers. </p>
<p>As for the false comment about SAT scores:
NEU: 1890-2170
-CR: 630-720
-M: 650-740
-W: 610-710</p>
<p>BC: 1900-2180
-CR: 620-710
-M: 640-740
-W: 640-730</p>
<p>They are about the same with the slight edge going to BC.</p>
<p>I recommend that next time you try to sling mud at another school for the purpose of promoting (what might as well be your) alma mater, conduct better research to substantiate your points and present it in a civilized manner. Northeastern is a fine school with an excellent co-op and other academic opportunities, and it can certainly be a better choice than BC/BU for different types of students. Attacking peer schools only fuels the perceived inferiority complex that NEU-affiliates have shown as of late on CC.</p>
<p>You might like the University of Richmond. It’s not that much easier to get into than BC, NU and Nova, but I got in there and BC and NU rejected me while Nova waitlisted me.</p>
<p>BC’s applications dropped because they added an essay.</p>