<p>Accepted to NU, Honors and the Scholars Program! Super excited (And pleasantly surprised) !!</p>
<p>As for my stats, I’m an international student from Brazil.
SAT: 2170
GPA: 3.5 UW/4.2 W (Full IB Diploma)
ECs: Founder and President of Drama club (I applied for theatre), Captain of varsity softball team (4 years), varsity basketball (4 years), NHS, Co-founder of school service organization, Acting Intensive summer program at USC</p>
<p>Honestly, I think what got me in (at least into the scholars program) was my essay. It delved deeply into an extremely personal and life changing event that encouraged me to pursue community activism in the future, and it explained why my grades weren’t as good as they should have been. I also think my rec letters were pretty good (both my teachers and my counselor adore me, so at least I hope they were!)</p>
<p>Congratulations to everybody who got in! And good luck to all who got deferred!! You are all amazing and more than qualified to get in!!</p>
<p>^Normally I’d say limited, but with seemingly a lot being deferred this cycle, potentially higher than normal because they’re deferring more easily than in past years. A deferral is more or less saying “we think we might find a comparable or higher quality applicant in RD, so we’ll get back to you”, so generally if they’re not sure whether to accept you the first time around it’s unlikely you’re in the top 10% of applicants. This cycle does seem to be a little funky, so anything could happen, but definitely slim chances.</p>
<p>i was accepted EA to architecture.
i wasn’t offered scholarships or honors invite but received a 20K scholarship at tulane.
where do you find out your scholarship and honors information–on the application status site or in the formal snail mail letter?
was i not invited to honors cause there’s no architecture honors? i have good stats. i don’t want to do architecture anymore i want to do business/languages and honors would’ve been great for that.</p>
<p>Got accepted yesterday to Program for Undeclared 10k scholarship
3.55/4.00 GPA
2280SAT
Go to #48 Private High School in the Country (in CA)
750 US HISTORY(I was concussed- no excuse tho)
670 MATH II (see above)
Dream School UC Berkeley- applying as History Major
Also applying to BU
Waiting for word on Latin/Greek Program UCLA (I am really good at Greek. I have an A+, and I love it) I was more of a solid A to A- Latin student…
Applying to Emory and William and Mary RD (Reach… I know no chance right)
Accepted to Fordham
Haven’t heard from SMU TCU University of San Francisco (expecting acceptance from all 3)
3 year letterman baseball
I feel like I didn’t deserve to get in. I didn’t even visit the campus. Some of you guys deserved it more than me. I’m sorry if I got in the way of anyone for whom NU is a dream school
Almost forgot to mention. I love reading this site. Just joined today! </p>
<p>Why are some people on here speculating and tying to come up with reasons why so many people were deferred. It’s kind of rude to claim that something weird happened and its all messed up to the people who got in. Northeastern didn’t just draw names out of a hat. The people they accepted were the ones they were positive would thrive at the school and the others they jus want to make sure about. So let’s all stop trying to play detective and just roll with the punches. </p>
<p>got into the 6 year DPT program with a $10k excellence scholarship (no honors though, pretty disappointed)
my EFC is so high though that I’m not sure if I can afford northeastern it’s such an awesome school and I really fell in love with it</p>
<p>stats:
4.1 GPA / 2120 SAT/ 700 Math 2, 690 Chem / AK
decent ECs, lots of work experience including a PT clinic and math/chem tutoring, strong dedication to Russian (kind of sad NEU only offers up to 202) and hoping to do a co-op in Russia or a Russian-speaking country
did 50+ hours of shadowing at an outpatient PT clinic last year</p>
<p>other colleges - deferred from Penn, accepted to Drexel (w/honors)</p>
<p>congrats to everyone who has gotten in!! can’t believe so many people have been deferred </p>
<p>@alfonsia, as others have noted, if you are already accepted it probably won’t matter. If not, it is definitely worth the $12 investment. Raising your ACT composite score from 32 to 33 moves you from the 98th to the 99th percentile, according to the ACT web site. If 1.8 million students take the ACT, the 99th percentile puts you in the top 18,000 test takers rather than the top 36,000. That would be worth 12 bucks to me.</p>
<p>My son’s guidance counselor strongly encouraged him to submit scores from two ACT exams that moved his superscore from a 34 to 35, even though the composite from each individual test was 34. There’s no way to know if it made a difference, but he was accepted into the Honors program with a generous Dean’s scholarship. He just completed his first semester at Northeastern, and loves it!</p>
<p>@phlips - information about honors is stated in a letter in admissions portal, and scholarship info is in a tab marked “Scholarships.” It’s all there.</p>
<p>Also, architecture does have honors. The honors program is separate from any specific major or college. However, the determination of who gets into honors is done on a college by college basis, so you are competing fro honors against other students applying to the college or arts, media, and design. </p>
<p>you guys! two days later and i am still mourning that my daughter got deferred. she has plenty of other choices but that isn’t helping. how do we move on?!!?</p>
<p>@arob1129, i haven’t seen anyone thinking that those who were accepted don’t deserve it! they clearly do! it’s just that naviance, guidance counsellors, etc., led us to believe we’d be in that category too! wah! </p>
<p>@redpoodles I was accepted here but deferred from Georgetown and im having trouble getting past it too…all your daughter can do is take her mind off it by adding new colleges to her RD list…the hard work of writing essays will take her mind off it. </p>
<p>@redpoodles, If your daughter has plenty of other good choices, that’s what you both need to focus on. Admissions decisions seem kind of like applying for a job–who knows exactly how the hiring decisions are made? It’s largely out of our control. While my son was admitted to NEU with honors and a scholarship, we were very surprised when he was deferred from Case Western, though his stats are considerably higher than most Case acceptances posted on CC and he had an alumni interview, went to a local Case session, had a related summer internship and played varsity sports. Doesn’t make any sense. Son shrugged it off because he already had a full-tuition scholarship to school he would be happy to attend, then NEU came through. If your daughter has one school she’d be happy to attend and you can both afford, she’s all set. </p>
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i haven’t seen anyone thinking that those who were accepted don’t deserve it! they clearly do! it’s just that naviance, guidance counsellors, etc., led us to believe we’d be in that category too
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<p>Someone posted earlier that maybe the admissions office ran out of time and just deferred all the apps they had not reviewed. That is what was being referred to.</p>
<p>Also, Navaince includes 5 year data I believe and the average stats for Northeastern have increased significantly in the past 5 years.</p>
<p>Guidance counselors are not the best chancers. Again admission is holistic. And as was mentioned earlier, it is a black box to ousiders. </p>
<p>@redpoodles I feel the same way you do. My daughter also was denied and it was her first choice. We knew what her chances were, based on Naviance , but we hoped that her being a legacy might have tilted the scales slightly in her favor.
My husband and I have tried to stress to her that she needed to be more flexible with her other schools but she didn’t want to hear it. WE actually feel that another school is a much better fit for her for what she plans to major in, and if she gets in, it will be much better financially.
Her reaction the other night was very hard for us to deal with. She wanted to abandon all of her dreams and take online courses in the hopes of re-applying next year…that would be a " no "</p>
<p>To make it worse, she went to school yesterday to learn that a boy in her class was accepted, despite never taking any honors classes or AP , having mediocre stats and not being a good student. I asked her if he got in because of a sport, and sure enough, he did. </p>
<p>The funny thing is, I felt a little worse for the other students who have expressed their disappointment here with really great SAT’s and GPAs… Go figure</p>
<p>You all need to stop thinking of deferred and denied as the same thing - they are not. At any college, many deferred students are accepted in the RD round. Getting in that way doesn’t make you a second-class citizen.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to ask this without sounding like a jerk, but…does anyone know what the criteria was to get merit scholarships? I was accepted to the College of Computer/Information Sciences, but I didn’t get into the honors college (which isn’t really that big of a deal to me) and I didn’t get any merit aid (which is another story). I have stats at or above many of the people on here who say that they received large scholarships. Would it be rude of me to call/email Northeastern and ask? </p>
<p>My D was awarded $15,000 Dean’s Scholarship with ACT of 33 (superscored; I’m pretty sure NEU superscores both the ACT and the SAT), uw GPA of approx. 3.9, w GPA around 4.75; top 8% of class in strong public HS in suburban Philadelphia; strong but not extraordinary ECs, essays, recs, etc. Two of her classmates were also accepted with merit: a male student whose stats she thinks are similar to hers also got $15,000; another boy with higher academic stats (better SAT, rank in top 3%) was awarded $22,000 (or at least that what’s they’re telling their friends.) My D did not get Honors invite and if either of the boys did, they didn’t mention it.</p>
it’s such an awesome school and I really fell in love with it</p>
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