Thank you for all the great ideas! I will look into these and pass along the info. She has a group of 12 girls so I will call these places to see if that’s doable.
Hi @PengsPhils (& @TomSrOfBoston)! You have each provided tremendous insights throughout CC regarding the Boston area and for Northeastern in particular. My son (along with several thousand others) is anxiously awaiting a response on his EA application. Per Tom, he presumably will not get a response until mid-January. Per Pengs, he may well be deferred, as this is the default position for the school at this time.
Looking at the few stats provided by ED admits, I believe my son’s stats are significantly higher. I understand the weight given to a hard commitment (something we cannot afford to do financially), but am hopeful that good stats are still hard to come by and that a student with a clear demonstrated interest may still get in EA.
Following are his details. Chance him?:
Race: White
Gender: M
Major: Electrical Engineering (solid A’s in all math and science; 4 on Physics AP, Calc AP pending)
Application: Early Action
GPA (weighted):4.0
GPA (unweighted): 3.75
Class Rank: At least top 20%, probably top 15% of class between 250-300 studentes
ACT: 32
ACT (superscore): 34
Classes: All AP and Honors, including full Science and Math progression, English, Social Studies/History (including Econ and Government), and 4 years of foreign language, including 1 year of Japanese.
Extra Curricular:
Robotics/Head Programmer - 4 years
Theater Stage Crew/Head Lighting Tech - 4 years
Film Club - 2 years
Japanese Club - 3 years
Cross Country - 3 years
Summer Experience: Series of STEM programs, including most recently General and Electrical Engineering precollege programs at Stevens and at BU.
Work Experience: All service/manual, including inventory and service at 7/Eleven
Demonstrated Interest: Visited school twice. On each trip attended general info session and campus tour + engineering info session and engineering facilities tour.
Thanks!!
An important thing to remember is that the ED accepted stats will likely be lower generally because of the guarantee of acceptance, so Northeastern can easily and comfortably fill their 25-50% range of their class for example. No one besides the internals of the admissions team can actually say what exact strategy is, but I think it’s safe to say they won’t be 1 to 1 comparison at all.
What’s also not included is home state, as admissions coming from the northeast region generally tend to be more competitive due to a larger pool and many high-level applicants from the Northeast using them as a safety.
I think all that can really be said is that your son is a match and to hope for the best. I do think that his work experience will be looked upon well and I’d say the EA chances are solid but as always there are no guarantees. It also looked like Northeastern’s recalculated GPA scale will benefit in this case and may make this closer to a low match (closer to safety but of course not actually one) given that it’s +.5 for honors and +1.0 for AP. Still, the only decision that would surprise me is a rejection EA.
Good luck!
Edit: Grammar
did anyone do a phone interview after deferral?
@sfruhling Interviews for Northeastern are typically legacies only and not very important. I have never heard of a phone interview.
@PengsPhils It was written in his deferral email. It suggested that you make a phone meeting with one of the admissions reps. He talks with her this afternoon! EEEK!
@sfruhling Interesting! I haven’t seen that before, likely to do with ED applicants specifically if I had to guess. Do report back with the content/style of the call if possible!
Anyone have advice on applying to Bouve Nursing vs. Social Sciences? I’m not certain I want to do nursing, my original plan was to apply to nursing to be safe because I know its very hard to transfer in. However, I can’t find any certain acceptance rates for all of the schools, but I’ve heard it will be easier to get into social sciences. I don’t think my application is very obviously geared toward nursing, the APs I took were more in the humanities, no science/medical extracurriculars, but I did get accepted to UMass Amherst nursing so not sure what to think. I would rather get in for social sciences than not get in at all, so I’m thinking play it safe and not do Bouve?
NEU doesn’t release any data on acceptance for schools or majors - so it is impossible to truly know if some schools or majors are harder or easier to get in to.
@plzacceptme77 In my experience it is very hard to get accepted to NU nursing mostly because it is a very small program. If I remember correctly it is less than 100 students (75 students?). NU offers ED1 and ED2 and also tries to diversify accepting students from other states. After the ED cycles, the out of state students and the students with hooks really the available spots are VERY few. If you were coming from California I would say you have a better shot. What routinely happens is a lot of NUin acceptances. I follow the NU nursing acceptances from our highschool and they are very rare even for high stats students and those students routinely get accepted to other competitive nursing programs. So in my opinion NU for nursing for an unhooked local student is a always a reach.