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Hey guys, someone chance me please, im really nervous about not getting in, this is most of my resume:
White female from new york, first generation college student
ACT: 33
GPA: 3.976 UW, 4.2 W
6 AP classes, all honors classes
Extracurriculars and other stuff:
-beach lifeguard over the summer
-volunteer at a hospital
-president of a club
-hold a position in another club
-varsity track and field (both winter and spring)
-done 3 college summer programs
-published a thesis paper in an undergraduate magazine
-club volleyball for 3 years
-peer leader at my high school (highly competitive, teach health to the underclassmen)
-French honor society
-participated in young authors conference and their master class 2x
@k41500 Solid match
Can someone chance me too?
ACT 32
UWGPA 3.8 WGPA over 4.0, though I don’t know for sure as my school doesn’t weight.
6 APs, no honors offered at my school
Lots of good extracurriculars- debate, two jobs, summer writing programs, president of a club, member of a bunch of clubs (with other positions), a few sports.
I live in a seriously underrepresented state, too; northeastern didn’t have any students from my state as of a few years ago. If they have any now, I doubt there’s more than one or two.
I’ve also emailed my admissions counselor a few times and visited campus, if that means anything.
You applied EA @20182022? Low reach I’d say. Now that ED II has been added I suspect that plenty of the class of 22 will come out of the 2 ED pools. Bad news for EA applicants.
Yeah, I applied EA. I didn’t really think about how ED2 would affect EA applicants- guess I should’ve applied ED. But one can hope, right?!
I think @WilliamNYC is overexaggerating the effect.
ED1 did not exist even 4 years ago, and when it was introduced there was no huge shift in application acceptances that anyone could perceive for the EA/RD pool. The acceptance rates have been similar across admission options - the only difference is that ED is closer to 100% (likely 90% after financial factors) yield versus the typical yield during EA/RD around 25%. This means that for every ED acceptance, there will be about 3 less EA/RD acceptances.
In ED1, typically it looks like they accepted about 250 students. Assuming ED2 draws the same number (which I think is more than generous, as it may draw far less, especially in its first year), that means that this year they will be accepting 750 less people accepted in EA/RD. Given that there are about 50K applications a year, that’s less than a 2% lower acceptance rate (so perhaps 26% instead of 28%). I wouldn’t see that as too much of a concern.
@PengsPhils So do you think I have at least a possible chance of being accepted? Or should I focus my efforts on other schools?
You’re in the middle 50% for both GPA and test scores. That makes Northeastern a match school, and that’s really all anyone can say. Anyone spitting out percent chances is just guessing, that goes for most everywhere. I don’t like chances for that reason - you can look at the 50% ranges and get the same info as me.
Admissions departments are sadly a black box you throw your profile into and just have to hope for the best. Like with any school not a 100% safety in all aspects and not an impossible reach, don’t give up all hope but temper expectations and know that you will have good schools as options no matter the result if you applied to a good mix of schools.
Good luck!
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It’s possible I’m over analyzing the effect of the ED2 round @PengsPhils. The thing is that for the ED1 round NE was in competition with Ivies. I can see plenty of Ivy ED applicants who didn’t get in, submit ED2 to NE as that school is a logical second option for that caliber students… Possibly resulting in a considerable higher number of ED2 applications. Time will tell I guess…
@WilliamNYC I’m not sure that many Ivy ED rejects would jump at NEU EDII. Don’t you think they have RD applications at other Ivies they are hoping to get into? Why would they commit themselves to NEU before they hear from the other Ivies?
Yeah, I don’t think you’re going to find people hoping for Ivy’s shooting down their chances RD for NEU. I think it will attract people who had Northeastern as their clear second choice but got rejected from their first EA at a place in the US News 20-40 range (or outside of that, just giving a ballpark of the caliber of school). I don’t think those numbers will be notably large.
does anyone mind chancing me?
I’m from a suburban public high school in nj and am applying for their international business program
I have a 4.4 weight gpa (school doesn’t give UW) 1500 SAT score, 700 on math SAT2 and 720 on literature SAT2. Im in NHS and WLHS.
I’m taking ten AP classes total throughout high school, founded and started an Amnesty International club, am president of the debate club, VP of Interact Club, and secretary of FBLA. Have volunteered in Indian villages, interned with a state assemblyman, took a Con.Law summer course at Columbia, and have volunteered at a horse therapy farm and work at a girl’s clothing store.
BU had half the amount of applicants for ED2 than they had for ED1 (last year). I bet NEU would be similar. Their acceptance rate for ED2 was lower than for ED1 (42% for ED1, 35% for ED2). I bet NEU falls along the same percentages.
http://dailyfreepress.com/2017/01/19/look-incoming-class-2021-early-decision-students/
So no one has any idea when EA is released? I know it says february but I can’t see them taking 3 months for it
In the past, decisions were deadlined at December 31st and usually released on a weekday around December 15th. I would guess that since the deadline is now February 1st, it can be expected that decisions could come out as early as around January 15th. You never know though, it could be up to the deadline.
The date was moved at the same time as the introduction of EDII. I don’t think it’s an issue of time to review so much as seeing the EDII applications before deciding fully on EA.
Can someone chance me as well?
GPA: 4.2
ACT: 32
4 APs (I can’t take more than 5 at my school)
ECs:
- NHS Exec Board
- Science NHS
- volunteering at hospital
- hand bells
- college summer program
- member of many clubs
- job at a grocery store
- acting in student films
- counselor at a science camp
Just wondering–what was the average SAT score of the class of 2021? I can’t seem to find it anywhere.
The 25th/75th percentiles are 1400 and 1500 (new SAT)