<p>do you have to apply early action to get a really good scholarship?</p>
<p>and is NU one of those schools where the earlier you apply, the better?</p>
<p>My son recieved a full tuition scholarship and he did not apply EA. In fact, we were advised to not apply EA because with an EA application, the school knows they are your first choice and will not be motivated to offer the maximum amount of merit money.</p>
<p>Of course, that was the opinion of one college counselor and my son is just one individual. Your milage may vary.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>My son applied EA and was given the Dean’s scholarship ($17,000 per year) with his EA admission. He was then contacted a few months later in March and given the Trustee Scholarship, which is full tuition, room, and board. </p>
<p>The Achievement, Excellence, and Dean’s Scholarships are awarded to the top 25% of students who apply. These are awarded to EA applicants even before the regular decision deadlines. After all the regular decision applications are in, then all the scholarship candidates are re-evaluated for the top scholarships (National Merit full tuition, National Achievement, and Trustee).</p>
<p>I really don’t know if you are less likely to get the Achievement, Excellence, or Dean’s Scholarships if you wait for regular decision, but I doubt it. However, it definitely doesn’t hurt to apply EA.</p>
<p>Best of Luck!</p>
<p>My son just applied EA. Website says they provide admission decisions by Dec 31st. We were hoping to hear earlier than Dec 31st so my son wouldn’t have to prepare backup applications to other schools. When did you receive notification of admission? Thanks</p>
<p>It’s “by” Dec 31st, but you usually find out sooner.</p>
<p>Mid December is their usual notification time, from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>My daughter also applied EA and we’re hoping for a scholarship as well. I read a post that NEU calculates GPA in their own way - how’s that?</p>
<p>Her SATs are 2110, ACT 32 with lots of AP and honors classes, also four year varsity athlete, many clubs, National Honor Society. </p>
<p>She was told she might not hear until March about merit aid. Is that untrue if she applied EA? It looks from threads on here like everyone gets at least a minimum award in their acceptance notification.</p>
<p>Thanks, she’s looking forward to attending, hope it all goes smoothly.</p>
<p>If I apply EA but have better stats/extracurriculars to show before they award major scholarships, can I update my info?</p>
<p>(though not if I improve my essay, I’m sure)</p>
<p>Is the full tuition scholarship for all four years or only for the freshman year? Thanks</p>
<p>FourBees I believe all their merit scholarships are for eight semesters. They have to phrase it that way because you don’t pay tuition while on co-op, and many of the programs are planned to take five years. Of course, you have to maintain the minimum standards or risk losing the scholarship.</p>
<p>NEU looks at weighted GPAs if they are out of a 5.0. If they are not, they convert as such.</p>
<p>If you look on their website, they give an academic profile where the middle 50% gets a 3.6-4.1 out of a 5.0 scale.</p>
<p>Do you have to submit FAFSA if you are hoping for a scholarship? I don’t think I’ll get financial aid but I may qualify for a scholarship (what do you think - top 10%, 2130 sat?).</p>
<p>Why not submit FAFSA?</p>
<p>It’s free…</p>
<p>is NEU EA is restrictive? i.e., can apply to other schools early simultaneously?</p>
<p>“EA” for all schools means “early action”, which is not restrictive.</p>
<p>If you apply “ED” (meaning “early decision”), it IS restrictive. You can still apply to other schools EA or RD (“regular decision”), but you can’t apply to more than one school as ED. Also if you are accepted as ED, you must go there unless you can prove very severe financial hardship. Northeastern doesn’t have an ED option, so none of their application periods are restrictive.</p>
<p>And you should submit FAFSA anyway. Just because you don’t think you’ll get a grant or something, doesn’t mean you won’t get loans. The loans you get from the government are way better deals than going private. If you don’t do FAFSA, you don’t even get the option.</p>
<p>some schools are SCEA – single choice EA; so EA does not automatically mean non-restrictive. i know MIT and CalTech are non-restrictive EA. i couldn’t find this on NEU site. do you have the language from their website. thanks.</p>
<p>SCEA? Well that’s different then EA then. I never saw that- it was all just EA, ED or RD. Obviously if it says “single choice” then it’s restrictive. </p>
<p>Northeastern is JUST early action. It is not restrictive at all. I work in admissions.</p>
<p>i get it now. you are from neu… then, can you comment or confirm on scholarship selection process, and if applying EA helps or hurts the chances. does neu waive application fee (non-need based)? some schools do if named to received NMS notification or for recruiting. thanks.</p>
<p>For the application fee, call admissions. That is all a very specific case-by-case process, if they do it at all. I think I’ve heard of it happening, but I don’t think it’s for a blanket “NMS” group or something… I think I heard of someone getting it for recruitment reasons, but that’s really really rare.</p>
<p>If you can apply EA, do it. It’s as simple as that. There is a lot of debate about what EA does to scholarships, and no admissions office in the world will tell you the exact way they do things. Stronger students tend to be in EA, so if you hear that more scholarships are given out for them, it could have nothing to do with the fact that they were EA.</p>
<p>What can be said for ANY school is that at a certain point, schools run out of money.</p>