z8-Minutemen

Northeastern acceptance rate: 37.9%
BU acceptance rate: 58.5%

Also, who wins every annual meeting we have in basketball? Northeastern.

Nuff said.

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Steve81

Have taken continue ed courses at BU, Northeastern, UMass-Lowell, and 2 day course at Worcester Poly Tech.

Rate Worcester Poly Tech the highest and then UMass-Lowell. Northeastern courses are short and very easy to earn an A. BU State-of-the Art program taught at the old Wang building was terrible.

I'm sure like all schools there are some great instructors, some poor ones and it's the arverage instructors that seem to make the difference.

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So long as BU is in Hockey East, they'll be fine in at least one sport (which also happens to be their biggest).

They already tried (not officially) with a club team as recently as 2010. I wouldn't say they'd never bring it back, but it's certainly a long shot for them to ever field a scholarship team again.

oldvmter

acceptance rate:
perhaps nu has more applicants.
nu has designs on pl when caa runs the course.
neither institution is generous to high academic low income applicants. will patriot league be happy with bu offering full scholarships in basketball?
will ae keep sbu and uvm? will ae survive? (same question)

ace93

Why wouldn't they? The PL now allows scholarships in all sports and all PL offer scholarships in basketball. They first allowed scholarships in hoops in 1998. Lafayette was the last to not offer them, but have been doing so since 2006.

e-parade

Number of applicants to Northeastern last year: 44189
Number of applicants to Boston University last year: 43655

Those are close enough to pretty much be equal.


The main difference is that BU has 32000 students and Northeastern only has 24000.

res

Not sure who you mean by "they", '84. If you mean Patriot League basketball teams, I would point out that the PL is consistently ranked higher than the AEC. It's actually a slight step up in basketball for BU and a big step up in many other sports.

Bona84

I stand corrected, res.

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res

Just to be clear, I wasn't disagreeing with your original assessment, just providing context.

Bona Wolf for Pope

Acceptance rate has little to do with academic quality.

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JHG722

LOL the University of Washington's acceptance rate is 57%. Are you saying NEU is better than UDub? Michigan 41%, Wisconsin 50% Wake Forest 38% Georgia Tech 59%

Are you really saying Northeastern is better than all of those schools because of some fudged acceptance rate? I couldn't tell you one notable academic program at Northeastern. It was also by far the lamest college I visited.

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agoo101284

As a native of the Greater Boston Area, I think I was the only one among my friends who didn't apply to Northeastern. Its a thing to do if you're from the area, so they probably end up with a large batch of rejects because of it.

z8-Minutemen

Sorry, but a higher acceptance rate does prove a higher academic prowess. It's a process that ensures that the most intelligent, well-rounded scholars get selected. And clearly Northeastern is above those other schools in that aspect. Hell, it even shows on this message board.

Northeastern is considered to have the #1 co-op program in the country. I would say that is pretty notable. As far as your lamest comment, I wouldn't completely disagree. It's a commuter school with very low support and low pride in their university. I can tell you that from 2 years of undergraduate experience there. The school also does very little to fund its athletic programs which is disappointing, but the athletics are still way above BU.

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Bona Wolf for Pope

All it shows is that a lot of people applied. Often, it is because of perceived academic strength (if you want to base your argument on what a bunch of 17 year olds believe, it's not going to go well). More often, it is based on a school's ability to market, generate applications and then select their class. It also allows a school to shape their class by balancing minorities, filling out less popular academic programs, and allowing room for rich legacy students who don't need a scholarship so that they can spread their endowments in other areas. They don't just take the X smartest kids and call it a day.

I know you are impervious to facts with context, but you're wrong on this. Northeastern may be a better school than BU, but it is not shown by acceptance rate.

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JHG722

Hahahahhaha so again, Northeastern is a better school than Michigan and Wake Forest? Who cares about the stupid co-op program. Congrats on beating out Drexel for that title. You know where people at NEU and Drexel do their co-ops? Northeastern and Drexel. I'm graduating from Temple with 4 internships. I didn't need some bullshit co-op program for that.

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