Chance me Northeastern University 2024

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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Applied RD as a psychology major with intended pre-med track.

GPA: 3.9/4.0 (UW - my school doesn’t weight)
SAT: 1270 (reading and writing 690; math 580)
White female from MA/middle class
Roman Catholic
Top 2% of class out of 109
AP Classes: Physics 1, biology, psychology (school only allows 2 AP each year for juniors and seniors)
Taken the most rigorous and heavy course load that my school offers

Awards

-11th grade won the award for top student in humanities at my school

Extra curriculars:

-Service Learning (9-12): established a homeless shelter in my community that provides basic necessities + mental health resources to +100 individuals a week
-NHS (11-12) president, 350+ volunteer hours at various nonprofits; tutors local migrant children in English
-MUN (10-12) president
-founded journalism club + started school newspaper (Chief Editor)
-Creative writing (9-12) publishes original pieces to website I designed
-Summer@brown
-internship for State Senator
-Varsity Soccer (9-12) captain
-Varsity Lacrosse (9-12) captain
-study abroad program in Nantes, France (10th grade) stayed with host family and attended classes at high school
-Student government (9-12) class rep and treasurer

Resume:

-extensive service learning resume: started class on mental health and addiction at my school, hosted speaker series in my town with famous athletes who struggled with addiction, and other projects on that scale
-interned with my town’s police department
-extensive independent research in the field of my intended major

Recs and essays were all very solid

2

Your GPA looks good to me. Your SAT is quite low for Northeastern – well below the 25th percentile.

What is your budget? Have you run the NPC for Northeastern and are you fine with the result? Getting accepted does not do much good unless you can also afford to attend. If you are premed, then you should avoid debt for undergrad.

I personally am skeptical of premed students attending a university where your SAT puts you well below the median SAT score for incoming students – premed classes are going to be plenty tough enough at a slightly lower ranked university.

If you can afford it I would call it a low reach. Otherwise it might be a high reach.

I might add: I see six threads from you asking for chances on six different universities. None of them look like safeties, mostly because your SAT is below the median for all of them. What are your safeties?

3

I was already accepted EA to Pepperdine University and Emmanuel College. my safeties were Uni of Washington and Franklin & Marshall, as kids from my high school get into those schools with similar stats and much weaker EC’s

4

Congrats on Pepperdine!
Pass on Emmanuel.
And like the response above your SAT do not seem in range for NEU.
Or consider applying to a catholic school since your background is very impressive with service. Perhaps Holy Cross.