<p>His step-father and aunt are alumni but his extracurricular school activities are non-existent... </p>
<p>He will probably be a National Merit Finalist - Maine Score 221. Min score has been 201 the last couple of years. He's applying to hopefully get a national merit full tuition scholarship. </p>
<p>SAT Math 760/ Reading 760 / Writing 730 (1520/2250)
GPA 91 or 3.60
Tops 20% of his class 40 out of 200.</p>
<p>He has straight As junior year but only two honors math courses and one AP math course.</p>
<p>For extra curriculars he's going to put some volunteer jobs but the top listings are going to be self-teaching himself Calculus, making up math equations and solving them, and writing two novels at 50,000 words each within 30 days in the NaNoWritMo online competition. And he wants to be a math teacher so he might put something about all the things he's done to help teach his sister where she has to be homeschooled due to pretty significant ADHD issues. </p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Unless they’ve gotten more selective than I think they have, I can’t see them turning away a NMF. I’d bet he’s in. Full tuition. Honor’s Program.</p>
<p>Yup, NMF is automatic full ride. Extracurriculars won’t matter. He will be in the scholars program.</p>
<p>Full tuition (not full ride) and honors yes, but the new Northeastern Scholars program is separate and they look at more than stats. No EC’s would preclude that.</p>
<p>Yeah, Tom is right. Full ride and full tuition are different (by a lot- like over 10k a year).</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>Yes, I understand that it would cover full tuition not full ride (tuition, room and board).
I think he would fit in really well in the Honors Program. As a parent, I like that he could get there and back home to Maine easily on the subway/Amtrak. We would still have to come up with $14,000 for Room and Board but that would be around the same as we would be left to come up with at an in-state university and they don’t have nearly as many foreign languages to offer. He wants to be both a math and foreign language teacher at the high school or college level. He can get some forgivable teacher loans to help.</p>