<p>Hey guys, please chance me. Also if you have been accepted as a transfer to Northeastern post your stats! Thanks:
Community College 3rd Semester in Fall
GPA: 3.6
High School GPA:3.0
Extracurricular: Completed summer internship @ Boston area hospital in high school, volunteer @ local hospital will continue in the fall, plan on joining a school club
SAT: combined 950 (really bad I know which is why i went to a comm. college)
In- State
Intended Major: Biology
SO WHAT ARE MY CHANCES???? ANY ADVICE ON GETTING IN????</p>
<p>You are in at Northeastern. Thier average is around 3.33 (from thier web site: [Northeastern</a> University Undergraduate Admissions > Transfer Students > Academic Profile](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/transfer/academicprofile.html]Northeastern”>http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/transfer/academicprofile.html)). Your academic profile is a lot stronger. And it doesn’t matter that you are from a community college because most of thier transfer applicants are probably from community colleges as well. Most schools don’t look at SAT or HS GPA for second year transfer, so you are probably safe in that regard. You also have volunteering experience and internships that will strengthen your applications.</p>
<p>Why don’t you try some stronger schools, like WPI in Worcester, MA, Boston University (I still hate that school, but see how much aid you can get; it’s kind of a waste).</p>
<p>I dont know what indianpwnerdude’s gripe with Northeastern is but i will offer a contrarian view. WPI is not stronger than Northeastern. WPI is ranked 50ish for engineering where BU and NEU are ranked 60ish very marginal. NEU has several distinguished programs outside of engineering as well such as business, journalism, architecture, pharmacy, and health sciences. Coop is unmatched and Northeastern offers the best opportunities out of any school in MA excluding Hardvard and MIT. </p>
<p>As for transfer students 70% are from 4 year institutions. Which leaves 30% for community college but this stat doesn’t matter because of financial cost effects. WPI is decent for engineering but thats all it offers. Northeastern is tougher and tougher to get into but you have a decent chance as a transfer student and is much much tougher to get into than wpi. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for your help guys…im definatly gonna give it a try</p>
<p>@Northeasternkid</p>
<p>I have no gripes against Northeastern. I respect the school very much, as much as I respect other schools in Massachusetts (other than Harvard and MIT), such as UMass, WPI, BU, Holy Cross, Boston College, etc.</p>
<p>I never said there is anything weak about Northeastern; I was criticizing Boston University, which rejected me in spite of my 2200+ SAT score and top 10% because they are a shtihole. Northeastern is a fine school with many connections to good companies in the area like Analog Devices, Akamai, Microsoft, and others and I respect them a lot. Their campus is also very good and I know that Northeastern has done a lot in the last ten years to improve their reputation from a commuter school to a top 100 university and to develop an excellent co-op program that has become the model for other universities.</p>
<p>As for Northeastern being a lot harder to get into than WPI, I am assuming that you are basing this on the acceptance rates. However, WPI is ranked slightly higher than Northeastern and thier average SAT scores are a bit higher (maybe 50-100 points), even when you compare them to Northeastern’s Engineering college. WPI has a lot of industry connections just like Northeastern and also has an innovative project based curriculum. I believe that WPI is underranked as is Northeastern, while BU is over-ranked because of its decent graduate programs that mask the low quality and high price of thier undergrad education. I am not saying that WPI is the end-all-be-all of second tier engineering education (because it’s not) but I definitely thing the administration has made many mistakes in the last few years (like growing the class size by enrolling more students who can’t handle the curriculum) and that it is under ranked because of its focus in undergrad education research over emphasizing faculty-led graduate research and top academic scholars who don’t teach classes.</p>
<p>I got a similar package at Northeastern and WPI and I was strongly considering Northeastern and Umass amherst as well when determining where to go to college. </p>
<p>I just said to try other schools in MA which I thought were marginally stronger (I take back BU because it sucks), and I did not say anything negative about Northeastern so you don’t have to try to fight with me and defend your school. WPI has a lot of programs other than Engineering, such as its decent math, science, and computer science programs along with a good 5 year bs/ms program. I believe that Northeastern is a solid university but to say that it is the best college in MA other than Harvard and MIT is absurd. The pharmacy program is a grad program (although I know about the 6 year PharmD program) and most undergrad business programs other than maybe Wharton, MIT, NYU Stern, and Berkeley Haas and are not legit. There are a lot of top ranked LAC’s in Massachusetts. and Why are you attacking WPI? You are making yourself look foolish.</p>
<p>I took your last sentence out of context and thought you were attacking Northeastern but all is good. I am not downgrading WPI at all, I think it is underranked as well. Good luck i know the program is super hard.</p>
<p>Average SAT for Engineering Programs</p>
<p>WPI: 1301
NU: 1296</p>
<p>thanks for the info swimchris. i believed that the engineering averages would be similar because of the similar profile of the engineering programs (as opposed to comparing the overall averages, which would be higher at wpi, primarily an engineering school)</p>
<p>lol IndianPwnerDude, they probably rejected you because they figured you were using BU as a safety. Besides that why the hate man?</p>
<p>how would they know he was using bu as a safety?</p>
<p>I don’t know… I didn’t really have safeties (despite top10%, 2200+, ec’s, …) because I had a major disciplinary incident in high school. I applied across the spectrum, from umass lowell to mit, with very few expectations (would have been very ****ed of to be rejected by umass though) and am quite content with the outcome. I might have been able to get into ivies/what not, but I was somewhat a slacker in hs (could have been a much stronger student and have involved myself a bit more in school if I focused more) and this is something that I don’t think about too much.</p>
<p>I don’t hate BU that much; I am just very upset that they were not able to look past the incident and evaluate my personality holistically. The entire nature of “extrajudicial punishment” just never made sense to me… I had the highest GPA and SAT of anyone rejected from BU from my school (and above most people accepted too, thus the “safety” argument is false). BU asks you what other school you are applying to (just probably for internal statistics) but I believe they said they don’t use it in admissions and they don’t really care if you apply as a safety as they are not tufts (they have a 58% admit rate)…</p>
<p>They asked me to consider transferring to BU… I am not even going to waste another cent on application fees to them. If I am ever transfering from WPI, it would only be to a school that is clearly a tier higher AND offers better financial aid, as WPI gave me a good non-need based package, recognize that people make mistakes and don’t deny them for an isolated incident, and I like the school a lot. Since my brother will join college next year and my efc would be less than what I am paying now, if they don’t give me a much better package, I might try to transfer… but not to BU. I am not particularly obsessed with school “rankings” since they are often quite superficial.</p>
<p>Heh yea I totally get your situation IndianPwnerDude, I had a few behavioral problems, some that I am still trying to correct. I have no clue whether or not I was really affected by them (probably since I also did get rejected from a safety). But yea, colleges should look that you improved and moved past that event…</p>
<p>Sorry that you didn’t get into BU, but I assumed you used it as a safety because you seemed overqualified. Good luck in WPI man!</p>