NMY scholarships require 60 hours of community service per year.
@suzyQ8 This probably isn’t much help but if you take the data for SAT: 25% 1940, 50% 2058, 75% 2200 and assume that the SAT scores are normally distributed (which the most likely are), the theoretical score for the top 2% using 50% as mean both the 25% and the 75% to find standard deviation is greater than 2400. So basically the top 2% is likely perfect or near perfect scores.
The 25th %ile is 2020, not 1940. Scholars program is holistic though.
My daughter received a $25,000/yr. merit scholarship (class of 2018) with scores and GPA identical to yours @jumpingstar. She applied to the PharmD program. But I think it helped because we are from FL. They try to build a diverse class, and I believe geography helps. They get so many applicants from New England that the bar is probably higher for those students. Vanderbilt gave her an even sweeter deal, so she opted to go there instead of Northeastern. Best of luck with your college applications!
@yellowgranite56 Thanks for the input! I’m actually from the midwest so hopefully that would help me. Also, did your daughter receive just merit aid for Vanderbilt or did she also get financial aid?
@jumpingstar, my daughter didn’t receive any financial aid from NEU. Vanderbilt gave tons, so that was the decider.
I applied EA to NEU, and I want to know my approximate chance of being in the University Scholars Program (full tuition scholarship)…
GPA: 4.47 weighted, 3.95 unweighted
ACT: 35
SAT: 2330 (1550 (CR+M))
Applying to Music Industry Program
AP US History (4), AP Chemistry (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP English Language (4), AP Music Theory (5), AP English Literature (in progress), AP Statistics (in progress), AP Microeconomics (in progress), AP Environmental Science (in progress)
If I don’t get full tuition, I financially won’t be able to go, so this is like super important to see if I should get my hopes up or not 
I’m out of state.
Scholars is holistic, what are your EC’s?
@TomSrOfBoston
-Choir 9-12
-Honors Choir 9-12
-All-State Choir 7-12
-Jazz Band 9-12
-Volunteering at nursing homes/assisted living facilities 9-12
-National Merit Semifinalist 12
-Spanish National Honors Society 11-12
-Student tutoring in Geometry, Spanish, AP Chemistry 9-12
-Keyboard in the orchestra pit for the school musicals 9,11,12
-Tour guide for my school’s open house 9-12
-Service Leadership Board (organizes service projects) 11-12
@swaggiedog don’t get your hopes up regardless. Your stats could get you full tuition/full ride at a number of schools guaranteed but Scholars is a total crapshoot among the tippy top applicants. They don’t pick just based on stats and EC’s, as they’re building a class of Scholars; they don’t want 100 varsity track captains from Delaware with a 4.0 and a 35, you know? They build with diversity of geographic location, ethnicity, interests, strengths (some artsy, some athletic, etc.). You may very well be qualified but the chances are still incredibly slim.
Apply for financial aid, though; if it’s as bad as you say it is, NU will almost certainly award grant aid and due to your competitiveness as an applicant it’ll probably be a pretty good offer.
Is there anyway to express specific interest in NUin?
Now that I think about it can you guys please chance me? Specifically for NEU.in I love this school and the Boston area so much, but I don’t know where I may stand (I copied and pasted this from another thread )
Senior
3.8 WGPA at one of the better public schools in my town
No idea about class rank
31 composite ACT (never took SAT)
29 math 29 science 30 english 36 reading
First generation college student from low income family
white female (Southern CA)
What I believe to be a pretty good essay
One great recommendation, One i’m not too sure about
Taken all AP humanities courses I can, all either advanced or honors sciences, and regular maths (geometry, algebra 2, precal, and now discrete math)
this year schedule having 3 AP’s(lit, art history, and psych) and 2 classes at a community college(intro to poli sci, and american political system)
Plan to be a history major [hence all the humanities stuff]
Extracurriculars: 350 hours of community service, 25 hours a week babysitting, VP speech and debate, tech theatre for 4 years, Junior statesmen foundation member 2 years
Awards: $100 scholarship for excellence in the study of history (2 awards given out of 600 people), School wide award for excellence in advanced biology (2 per class given so out of like 40), scholarship to attend a week long summit discussing politics and media at UCLA (got to meet many politicians and great journalists), and a $1,500 scholarship to College Apps Academy which is a service to help first gen low income students get in and excel in college 
@novafan1225 - LOL. They may not want 100 varsity track captains from Delaware with a 4.0 but we are overjoyed that they wanted one!!!
When did you admitted students get your admitted student package, if you got it at all? I’m kinda anxious for mine.
Hey I’m a junior so I haven’t applied but I really like northeastern but fear that my sat score may be too low. Let me know what my chances would be. It would really help thanks!
Sat (superscore)- 2010
Gpa (weighted)- 4.3
@soccerbball your score isn’t too low at all, especially with your GPA. I think NEU would be a high match / low reach for you. Plus, you can always try taking again once more as you have time.
Yeah I’m planning on taking it in January again just to try and at least get a superscore of 2050.
Currently I have a 680 in math 680 in writing and 650 in reading. I want to improve my reading score. Any tips?
My son was admitted to NEU EA. We had not really targeted this school but just applied at the last minute on the advice of his college counsellor. As a result, we did not visit the school when we toured Boston two years ago, but we did visit both Tufts and BC, both of which my son liked a lot and has applied to both. He has the grades and scores to get into Tufts and BC, although he could get easily get declined by both given their acceptance rates. He seems to like Boston but doesn’t seem to be too fussed either way over whether he goes to an urban school like NEU/BU or a suburban but close in school like BC/Tufts. Having said that, he did not like Babson at all based in large degree on the relatively remoteness of the campus and the strong pre-professional vibe of the school. I also think the size of BC and particularly Tufts would be a bit better for him as he is slightly introverted and might find it harder to find his niche in a bigger school (but he doesn’t seem too fussed by the size of BU/NEU). BU is the largest school that he is applying to.
From what we have researched, NEU looks like it might be a good school for him. My concern though, is the Co-op and pre-professional feeling I get about NEU. My son is a bit quirky and somewhat intellectual, so I don’t want him to be at a school where he is surrounded by fellow students whose sole motivation is their next internship or where they are going to work when they graduate. For this reason, he is not applying to any undergraduate business schools. Given our concerns, I don’t meant to sound negative, but do you think that the average NEU student is intellectual enough? Thanks
I think the students are plenty intellectual - you have to be really at some level to even get admitted. It’s hard to hate academic or even dislike it and do well enough to go to NEU.
That said, intellectualism and pre-professional aren’t mutually exclusive: both are very big on campus. If you didn’t like the pre-professional feeling of Babson, there is a varying level of that at NEU (IMO a bit better due to the diversity of majors vs Babson). Students do certainly talk and engage a lot in pre-professional discussion, but also have a lot of discussion about life plans, not just career plans. I would say even more than pre-professional, NEU students concern themselves with organizing their lives and, in general, being planning oriented - career is just one part of that.
Most students at NEU are intellectual: they just aren’t your classic academic intellectual. The NEU philosophy of mixing the academic and practical worlds evenly is the glue of most students here: we love learning and academics but love it even more when we can apply it to the practical world. A lot of classes are geared towards showing this perspective on the material as well though of course some are more theoretical and less applicable.
Next semester I’m taking two philosophy courses for simply my interest - neither will have any application really to my career, I just like the subject. Meanwhile, my other two classes are high-level Masters CS classes - one more theory based, and the other very practical. Last semester, I had 2 practical, a theoretical, and a practical math class. The point being, it’s a mixed bag of both.
I think that some students in the Business School are very pre-professional but they are in the minority on campus.