@palm715 Just a theory…
Admit rates take into account yield rates. If Northeastern University has a much lower yield rate for engineering, than the school in general, that’s going to be reflected in it’s admit rate.
The engineering students do appear to have slightly better stats, which played some part in the higher admit rate.
Finally, it could reflect the schools capacity to handle that number of engineering students vs the school (and other majors) in general. Perhaps far more students applied for business (as an example), than it has the capacity to handle, hence a lower admit rate than engineering.
Lots of unknowns 