<p>NU accepted over 3000 deferred applicants last year so don’t worry too much</p>
<p>@boogapenguin that makes sense, since a lot of high-caliber kids from my school (I live in MA) use NEU as a safety (not that it’s really a safety, especially not anymore…) and I don’t have stats as nice as theirs.</p>
<p>I got accepted EA, and one of the school’s journalism professors called me on my house phone… has this happened to anyone else?!</p>
<p>@chloesophia my son also got a call from a music industry professor last week, to welcome him. Nice touch I thought for such a big school.</p>
<p>@chloesophia Yes I got a call from a Dr. Young last week! She congratulated me and answered some questions I had. </p>
<p>One nice touch when my daughter was admitted EA 3 years ago was before she committed they sent her an email birthday card.</p>
<p>got in with their excellence scholarship!</p>
<p>Intended Major: Biomedical Physics</p>
<p>GPA: weighted 3.92</p>
<p>Rank: top 10%</p>
<p>ACT: 33 (superscored) 32 (not superscored)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: NHS, concertmaster 2 years in a row, plays in 2 orchestras including at the university of michigan, helping onduct research at the University of michigan-dearborn, lots of community service, shadowed doctors and helped out at an orphanage at a cancer institute in India, volunteered in a hospital, ran cross country 3 out of 4 years (took sophomore year off because I moved)</p>
<p>APs: Bio (4), APUSH (3), Lang (4), Microecon (4), Macroecon (4), Calc AB (5), currently in: Lit, Stats, Physics, and Psych</p>
<p>Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>@Qwerty568 yea! i was using it as a safety also, not realizing how competitive it actually was. i guess i just got lucky that my stats were good enough to get in!</p>
<p>I was accepted EA into the School of Computer Science! No merit aid though.</p>
<p>SAT: 2140 super scored
Writing 760
CR 700
Math 680</p>
<p>Math II 760
Biology E 690</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 4.65 (unweighted 4.0)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Captain of the volleyball team for three years, captain of softball team for two years, founder and president of Girls Who Code club for middle school girls, participant in Girls Who Code summer immersion program, communications coordinator/leader of my acapella group for three years, NHS, freshman mentor for two years, participant in school’s community service club, volunteering with non-profit that helps youth with critical diseases transition to adulthood, participant in school play for two years, active member of school club that helps expose city kids to artistic culture.</p>
<p>APs: Calc AB (5), Lang (5), Euro (3), currently in: Bio, Statistics, Computer Science, Pysch.</p>
<p>Awards: School-wide AP Calculus Award, School-wide Excellence in Life Sciences Award, AP Scholar, Student Athlete of the Week Award.</p>
<p>So when will we deferred students REALLY get our decisions? The deadline is April 1 but I’m assuming it will be earlier, since EA decisions came out earlier than the deadline… Any dates from previous years? Do they come out like EA, how all the people in Mass got them first, then outwards and so on or is it more random?</p>
<p>In recent years top applicants (Scholars etc,) started to receive decisions in late February. The rest of the RD applicants received them in mid-March using the same timetable as EA. </p>
<p>today I received a call from one of the professors in the Program I was accepted to. They said congratulations and to call them personally if I had any questions. Did anyone else receive this call and is this normal of northeastern? I was amazed that I got this call and wondered if anyone else received one. </p>
<p>@ineversleep I got a call, too! I was really caught off guard. I wish I had prepared some questions…</p>
<p>Is there a Facebook group for accepted students?</p>
<p>Does anybody know why the Northeastern Achievement Award ($10,000 per year) starts sophomore year instead of freshman year?</p>
<p>When my son was making his decision he received a call from the department chair, who personally reaches out to every accepted student in his department (around 120 students). They had a 20 minute conversation, and it really helped my son make his final decision. The chairperson wants to make sure that the prospective students really understand the Northeastern educational model (with co-op) and make sure they’re a good fit for the program. </p>
<p>It’s a bit late but I figured I’d share my experience with others in case they’ve gone through the same situation. In the early action round, I was rejected while other students from my school were just deferred. My college counselor and I were both very surprised by the flat out rejection, as I had tested just as well as and better (and had a very strong app with rec’s, EC’s, and GPA) than the majority of the other applicants at my school who were deferred. My counselor called the admissions officer for my school, who at first said that my test scores weren’t up-to-par. This wasn’t the case, so she called the next day, and the second answer we received was that they were “cost aware” and I was rejected because I had been applying for financial aid. It was pretty hard to believe (and even a bit strange that he would say that outright), but from the trends I’ve been seeing it makes sense. It seems that the vast majority of those who were accepted early were admitted into the Honors Programs and offered very generous scholarship packages. Not only that, but from what others have been saying, they’ve been receiving calls from the department chairs. Northeastern is definitely trying to make a name for itself and move up in national rankings, and it seems that they’re making a huge effort to pull in the top students in this early round and offering them big scholarships in order to further entice them. Also, Northeastern has made a major point in advertising their “fixed price” tuition, where they guarantee a fixed tuition for the full time a student is there through financial aid. When I told this to my counselor, she couldn’t believe it. I understand these conclusions are just from what I’ve seen in the early round and the regular decision round will definitely show different results, but it makes sense if Northeastern is trying to pull in the applicants and raise their national ranking. I’ve moved on at this point and no hard feelings towards the school, just my conclusions on the strange acceptance trends that everyone has been seeing so far this year. A bit of a sly move on their part.</p>
<p>Confused. How is it possible for someone to get accepted into Honors Programs with a lower merit scholarship than another person who was NOT accepted in Honors Program? The same school for both students. </p>
<p>Because I’m PRETTY sure that if/when NU decides to award merit, they just pick an amount out of a hat.</p>
<p>Another guess to that mystery is that they use merit as financial aid a bit for those who need it, but no one really knows.</p>