Daughter deferred EA, accepted RD with 12K/yr merit. 32 ACT, 4.33 GPA and excellent EC/recs/essay.
Son was accepted; $10k / year merit, but it starts in year 2. Never saw that before. Today he informed the school that he was going to attend another school. Good luck to all.
Hey everyone. Congrats to the admitted and hard luck to the rest!
I was accepted to NU and am now trying to check my mailing address just to make sure it is correct. However, I can’t do that from my normal applicant portal - I have to create a myNortheastern account for admitted students. I am scared accepting these services would mean I accepted the offer to the University. What should I do? Also, does anyone know if NU sends packages? I am an Honors Scholarship recipient.
We created a My Northeastern account and did not yet accept the offer of admission, You will be fine. Congrats.
@ambition26
Don’t be scared. Unless you pay the deposit money nothing counts as commiting.
@ambition26 You will receive a welcome packet in the mail in a week to 10 days.
Thanks a lot everyone!
I’ve been grappling with this for a few days. It’s a late post. My S was rejected after being deferred EA. His stats are National Merit Finalist, 1510 SAT, 3.9+ unweighted GPA, 5’s on all 7AP tests, top 5-10% of his class, EXCELLENT recommendation from a corporation in Boston that co-ops with college, successful computer platform with second largest number of downloads, 2nd place in State for GAME ON in Science Olympiad beating out the top National contender team. He has gotten accepted to RIT and RPI and is waiting to hear from Brown and Princeton. Not sour grapes but wondering why a kid like him couldn’t get into NU?
@ohiocollegemom they probably figure he’ll go elsewhere. Deny him and it helps their admission stats. It’s brutal.
Good luck to your son, he will do well in college and be successful in life.
@ohiocollegemom . Sorry to hear that. I think that if your don’t show serious interest like coming to visit, attending a class, etc. it quickly becomes a stats and yield game. I am sure he will succeed elsewhere. And BTW, the merit aid packages at RPI are much better than an NEU.
“Stats and yield game” - yes. It is nuts - absolutely nuts - how many highly qualified kiddos are being denied at competitive schools. Every year the number of applications go up and the number of students admitted goes down. I can’t imagine what it will be like in 5-10 years. Will it level out??
@SoCratz, @RightCoaster, Thanks for the quick reply. The irony is that we went to NEU’s Preview Day last October (as an invite, along with all the other thousands), did a follow-up phone call with school, and he wrote a heartfelt letter that went along with the business’ recommendation. For RPI and RIT, we haven’t visited either school. We are going in April for their accepted-student days. Go figure. That yield rate was new to me (he is our oldest). I understood that there is such a thing but did not realize how aggressive schools are at protecting that number. BEST OF LUCK to all of you at NEU and to those who didn’t get in. The advice we gave our S is that college is a new door that opened. What you do when you are there determines everything (and not so much what that name was stamped on the college door).
@MomOutWest Stanford is embarrassed by their <4% acceptance rate for this very reason. They are planning on changing their admission policy (no more common app) to reduce the number of applications. Some bubble is going to burst. Whether it is the common application drain on the entire system, the tuition costs, the economy … time will tell. I saw a segment on the national news about colleges eliminating degrees that don’t place in specific careers, like art and English degrees. I would suspect that has more to do with the enormous debt that an English major carries comparable to a Chemical Engineer or an Accountant at the same school, yet the ability to pay back that debt is prohibitive for the English major.
That honestly really does sound odd, and yield protection is probably a part of it. Was the application for CS by chance? While Northeastern claims admission rates are similar across majors, I think CS is beginning to become a highly selective major in the school and could have also contributed.
I wonder if being a NMF hurts or helps- maybe they don’t want to give out too many of the 30K NMF scholarships ?
@ohiocollegemom I would email the local admissions rep and ask. I feel like maybe NMF hurt… perhaps they already had too many? This is a very very bizarre result @ohiocollegemom - I would definitely email the local rep (and include stats). If you have a close relationship with your GC, perhaps they can call or email the rep.
We communicated with our local rep last year and they were very responsive.
my D was waitlisted with a 1560 3.9uw - I saw someone with a 1580 flat out rejected- I know its holistic, but its hard to imagine these kids not being able to contribute to the school- its too bad if they are worried about them enrolling they don’t make contact to judge interest- I know that’s what ED is for, but its seems harsh to punish these kids for applying at one of the top 4 or 5 schools ED as a super stretch
I followed the BU decision thread last week and the BC decision thread yesterday. The results are similar to Northeastern. Some 1500+/35+/3.8+ GPA’ waitlisted or denied.
Some report denied at two but accepted by the third. Some denied at one, accepted at the second with no aid, accepted at the third with merit.
I didn’t understood the importance of a need-blind vs. need-aware school. NEU is need-aware, which means they consider a student’s financial aid when deciding to accept or not. And the pay gap is a huge factor. If a student needs this much $$, they are this % likely to attend. If the college bumps up the award by, even as low as $500 or $1000, that will increase the % to attend, affecting yield rate, and there is that word again. NEU follows this matrix and other matrices because it keeps the school on the US News 100 list. NEU is doggedly aggressive about protecting their ranking on the list because it brings in money. It’s a tough business, and I believe they miss out on some very good students in the long run. He did apply CS, but I question the difficulty of getting into this college (in comparison to the other colleges at NEU) because at Preview Day, the Faculty Advisor for the Computer Science session told the small group of us that they’ll take anyone, even if that student has had no prior experience coding or interest in coding. Their goal is to make everyone a coder. Quite honestly, we were shocked to hear that comment. But, in the end, I think it came down to money and @suzyQ7, you might be right that they had too many NMF’s already. There are administrations that invest in the educational reputation of the school and there are administrations that invest in the engineering of the numbers.
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@PengsPhils Could you comment on this?
@ohiocollegemom These admissions statistics are not only used in USNews ranking but also used to determine a college’s bond rating, and thus the interest rate that the college will pay. Bond holders want to be assured that a college will be around in twenty or so years to pay off the bonds. Those stats are reported to Moody’s and used to determine the bond rating.
The media is full of stories about how many colleges will fail or merge in the coming decades. And yes it does come down to money. What in this world does not come down to money? Northeastern, BU, BC etc. do not have the taxpayer funded state grants to rely on. And even state colleges have come to realize that the public spigot is not unlimited.