Chances for Admission and Merit Aid

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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<p>I visited Northeastern today liked it quite a bit. Right now I have it down as a safety (tell me if it should not) but I was just wondering how much merit money I could expect because the amount of money I will pretty much choose my college. I also probably will not qualify for financial aid.</p>

<p>I'm going to be a senior this fall at a decent school in Massachusetts. (20ish in the state)</p>

<p>I want to pursue a career in business/finance.
Here are my stats:
Generally pretty good grades (6As, 8A-s, and 6Bs)
I calculated my unweighted gpa based on A=4, B=3, C=2, etc to be around 3.75 which is weighted at 3.90 at our school. I have one of the most rigorous course loads with 3 APs last year(bio(4), ush(4), stats(5)) and 4 more next year (physics, chem, psych, calc bc).</p>

<p>I am in the top 10% of my class of ~400 people</p>

<p>SATs (taken once and will retake)
2200 (720 M, 720 CR, 760 WR)
Shooting for an 800 M, 750 CR on the next try.</p>

<p>SAT IIs
Chem - 750
Bio - 720
Math IIc - hopefully close to an 800 because I have been studying all summer for it</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars
- 9, 10, 11, 12 Two year captain of the Forensics team (placed in the top 6 at numerous local events)
- 9, 10, 11, 12 Elected Student Council Representative (Only class elected member for all 3 years of high school, so far and VP for senior year)
- 10, 11 Science Team (placed 1st in the state in the Chemistry Lab event and 4th in a few other events)
- 10 A member of DECA (placed second in the district, top 10 in the state, and also received an achievement award for scoring fourth highest on the state written test in the event Sport and Entertainment Marketing and Management)
- 9, 10, 11 12 Math Team
- 10, 11, 12 National Honor Society</p>

<p>Other Awards I didnt cover
- Scored in the 91st percentile on the National German Exam both my freshman and sophomore year (my teacher is extremely difficult, that's why my grades don't show it. How will colleges view this?)
- AIME qualifier by getting over a 100 on the AMC 12 sophomore and junior year</p>

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<p>Doubledian, I think you have a great chance at being admitted to NEU, and it probably is a safety, however, each year the applications to NEU increase, and the quality of the application pool rises as well. </p>

<p>That being said, I can give you my our example: D accepted to Eng.honors program, graduated 3rd in class of 520, unweighted GPA 3.95, weighted 4.26. SAT scores a little lower than yours (1380 cr and math). She received just about half tuition in merit aid, no need based.</p>

<p>A few more notes on merit aid, there seems to be no rhyme or reason at NEU as to how they award it other than you have something in particular that they are looking for, or you come from the right geographic location (it may actually hurt you being from Mass). Also, I think showing strong interest and applying EA helps with merit aid. We visited 3 times and corresponded with a few key people for several months - it can't hurt.</p>

<p>If you have any specific questions or need any clarification on anything I've posted here, please let me know.</p>

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<p>ratedPG, you mentioned that being from "the right geographical location" can help with merit money. would being from the suburbs of chicago qualify me?</p>

<p>PS: i will understand if you cant really give me an answer, i am just wondering.</p>

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<p>Well I think in general they are looking to recruit talent from outside the Boston are.</p>

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<p>excellent!</p>