<p>No offense, but you guys are a little too “all we need is a bigger endowment”… Northeastern is a tuition-run school, and the administration isn’t hiding that. One of the reasons why we’ve been able to grow and improve in the past few years while other schools have taken such a huge hit is BECAUSE we don’t have a great endowment. Harvard for example had to cut a bunch of their stuff because when the economy shot down, so did their endowment. So even though it’s still insanely higher than ours, we didn’t get as much of a hit from less donations. Yeah a better endowment would be great, but don’t expect some alumni to just go and donate a bunch and have our ranking shoot up. We don’t really have the luxury of relying on the money, so the administration has been focusing on improving other things with the money that we’ve got.</p>
<p>Aoun though got a massive pay raise for the amount of donations he’s been getting out of people though, so we are doing better than normal. :)</p>
<p>Northeastern can’t handle an incoming class of 4000. We don’t have the classrooms or the residence halls for 1200 extra freshmen. I doubt they’ll go over 3000 anytime soon. And while 80 to 69 is great and is really important to us, it’s not like the average applicant is going to say “hmm, I don’t want to apply to this school because it’s only 80, but I’ll apply to this one because it’s 11 ranks higher”. We’ve had increases in the number of applicants every year, and obviously this can only help that, but it’s not like this is going to make the number of applicants double or anything.</p>
<p>Also, USNews doesn’t use 4 year rate anymore, I don’t think. I think they changed it to 5 years instead…</p>