@ACollegeHopeful3 does your school have a Naviance?
@WilliamNYC thank you very much, that’s extremely helpful. using that data I can see my English score was 75th percentile but my math was significantly lower. does anyone know if they consider your major and those separate scores when admitting or if they just look at your overall score?
The middle 50 range for class of 2021 is 1400-1500. https://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/academics/ Two things to note, first that it’s for admitted students which is higher than for enrolled, and second that any old scores in last year’s applicant pile were concorded to new using the College Board’s faulty concordance tables, so the range is artificially inflated if there were a significant proportion of old scores last admissions season. Hope that makes sense.
@hope469 No, my school does not use Naviance. I applied only using the common application without external systems. and @evergreen5 that kind of makes sense? you’re saying the range of scores is larger than it should be so what i’m seeing about my score being acceptable is likely false?
@ACollegeHopeful3 They take that into account, but if you get a 780 on reading a 600 on math, they’re going to notice that.
@ab2002 okay, thanks. Im not going for anything remotely math related so hopefully it helps slightly more than a flat 50/50 division of scores, but who knows.
@ACollegeHopeful3 You need the most accurate, recent stats you can find about a given school. In this case, the admitted data from last season - on the Northeastern website - is the most recent and the closest to accurate that seems to be available. There is also the CDS from the Class of 2020 that reports Old SAT scores (https://provost.northeastern.edu/uds/facts/common-data-set/); the new CDS with Class of 2021 data isn’t published yet. It’s hard to be sure how Northeastern is treating the New SAT scores.
Try to avoid third-party sites for data with the exception of NCES, though I have only seen the Class of 2020 (fall 2016) data there, nothing more recent.
For what it’s worth, I would anticipate that your 1320 is below the 25th percentile, even though it’s hard to know for sure because Northeastern concorded Old scores before mixing them with New ones. (Also note that, unfortunately, the 2017-2018 Common Data Set will do the same thing when it finally becomes available. Moreover, the Common Data Set does not report percentiles for composite SAT scores.)
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@evergreen5 okay, thanks. i’m assuming that significantly lowers my chances. from the CDS i saw my combined reading and writing was on par it was just the math that i couldn’t get into the 600s :-/ thank you for your help though.
Sorry to say, if you scroll down the CDS, you will see that 6.49% of enrolled students (who started fall 2016, so current sophomores) had a math score below 600 on the Old SAT. Greater than zero, but…
@evergreen5 yeah, i see that. i am hoping they take my english into account and i’ve been told my recs and essay are stellar, and my courseload is considered very heavy for my school. i suppose i can’t truly know until i get that letter in April but here’s hoping.
If you look back at last year’s EA and RD results threads here on CC you will see that some very high statted students were denied* and some with much less impressive stats were admitted to Boston in the Fall. Admissions is holistic.
*A couple in this category commented with surprise since they considered Northeastern to be their safety. I think that at times the adcoms are psychic. 
boston is a great city and northeastern is an amazing school and i wish i was intelligent enough to consider it a safety, lol. i really, really want the school and i hope that shows through my application. tbh admissions can seem really illogical and there’s just no way of knowing. thank you for the mild reassurance though!!! @TomSrOfBoston
This is the biggest takeaway here. Just put your best foot forward and know that no decision from any school will make or break your life, or even your year. Even someone doing the application process perfectly can get multiple rejections from schools they thought they were going to get into, and then at the same time get accepted to one of their reaches. You just never know.
@PengsPhils Yeah, you’re completely right. Thank you so much for your kind words and support 