Admissions
Northeastern ranks as the top private American university in the number of applications it receives annually. Barrons College Guides rates admission to Northeastern University as "highly competitive". U.S. News and World Report rates Northeastern as "more selective." The middle 50% of admitted students for Fall 2011 had weighted GPA's of 3.7 - 4.2, SAT scores of 1890 - 2140 and ACT scores of 29 - 32.
A report by The Huntington News, NU's newspaper, claimed that for the 114th entering class, Northeastern University received 42,948 applications from prospective freshmen for the fall term. This represented a 15% surge from last year's record of 38,000 applications. For this particular year, Northeastern University beat Boston University and New York University in terms of "the most applied-to private university in the United States".
For the same year, the admissions rate dropped to a record-low 34.3%. Approximately 3,000 students enrolled, one-sixth of them international students.
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