<p>Does anyone have any details from prior years on when Northeastern notified Early Action applicants?
Some schools notify earlier than the date they post.
Does Northeastern release notification to everyone at the same time?</p>
<p>Last year it was Thursday December 16 and people were saying that it’s been that corresponding Thursday for a while. It’s very stressful! </p>
<p>First your status check page stops working and then you wait and wait, as the decisions are released in waves by geographic location. Here in NJ, my daughter was checking from the minute she got home from school until the results finally came at 9pm. </p>
<p>I think they say they send you an email but I believe she just kept checking until she saw the news. There’s a thread where you can relive it with all of last year’s applicants here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/1044391-official-ea-thread-class-2015-a-18.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/1044391-official-ea-thread-class-2015-a-18.html</a></p>
<p>I heard it was December 31 this year, at least for online notification. Not sure what time!</p>
<p>No, they always say “by December 31st”. But it never ever is actually that late.</p>
<p>Good to hear that it will probably be earlier! Can’t wait for decisions…heard that their EA application number went up to around 16,000 this year…yikes!</p>
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<p>Thanks Wilberry. Looking forward to Dec 15th.
Any idea when accepted students get info about any merit scholarships?</p>
<p>Per Northeastern web site, scholarship notification is included in your acceptance letter. Is that online or in the mail?</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>
<p>Same time as admittance decision, although on very rare occasions they can be adjusted in the spring after RD.</p>
<p>Online. Its a link on the admittance page.</p>
<p>Wait where did you hear that there are 16000 EA apps? Do you think they will accept more applicants because last year there were 5303 EA acceptances. If they accept the same amount this year than thats only a 33% acceptance rate for EA :/</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for EA will be higher.
Here are the #s from last year:
Number of early action applications received: 11,593
Number admitted under early action plan: 6,021</p>
<p>The overall acceptance rate last year was 38%</p>
<p>[Nearly</a> 4,250 Apply to New Harvard Early Admission Program - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/harvard-early-apps/]Nearly”>Nearly 4,250 Apply to New Harvard Early Admission Program - The New York Times)</p>
<p>That’s the link that I found numbers at!</p>
<p>Northeasern’s freshman class of 2011 was overenroled by nearly 300 students due to an increase in the yield rate. Northeasern will likely take a more conservative approach to admissions this year: fewer acceptances to avoid overcrowding.</p>
<p>The overall acceptance rate last year was 34%.</p>
<p>I didn’t know the entire 2011 class was over-enrolled but my son told me over the weekend that the Honors Program is supposed to be 10% of the freshman class which would be around 300 students but there were 600 students in it so that may be harder to get into this year as well.</p>
<p>No, honors is offered to the top 10% of ADMITTED students. If those 10% decide to come at the same rate as the 90% that didn’t get honors, then it’s fine and honors is about 10% of the class.</p>
<p>But the issue with honors is that a huge amount of those students decided to say yes when Northeastern figured they’d say no. So honors was massive the past two years, but the 10% hasn’t changed.</p>
<p>I guess technically it might be “harder” to get into honors just because the applicant pool is getting better and better (so it’s harder to be that 10%), but the honors department has made it very clear in the past two years that they wouldn’t drop the percentage accepted. A lot of people disagree, but so far honors is determined to stay at 10%- even if they get over 500 first year students because of it.</p>
<p>Yes I stand corrected it is the top 10% of admitted students. The yield rate for the honors admitted students must be higher than the overall yield rate.</p>
<p>No way to get accurate #s. The NYT article states there were 14,000 EA apps last year and College Board reports 11,000 EA apps.</p>
<p>Take a look at applied #s, accepted %s and enrolled %s.
Northeastern has approx 16,000 undergrads - that would be 4,000 enrolled students per class.
Their yield (enroll rate to acceptance rate) is published at 23% - that would calculate to NU needing to make 17,000 acceptances.</p>
<p>Anyone have stats on yield rate for NU?</p>
<p>The College Board fgures are two years out of date. This year NU’s yield rate overall was 21%. The year before it was 19%. This led to the overenrolment in September.</p>
<p>Last year, notifications were received between 3PM-12AM EST on 12/16. It went from Massachusetts, then up and down the East Coast and then West.</p>
<p>Just want to point out that “approx 16,000 undergrads” does NOT mean 4,000 enrolled students per class.</p>
<p>The “typical” incoming class is about 2,800 students, although that went up in the past two years. We do a five year system. Even with four years becoming more popular, it’s still closer to 3k per class.</p>
<p>For got about the 5 year factor. I would assume the average incoming class would be close to 3,200 (16,000/5). Using last year’s yield (21%), that would mean 15,000 acceptances.</p>
<p>I’m currently a Northeastern Sophomore within the Honors Program. If you receive a merit scholarship, it comes with the acceptance letter. Mine showed up online, as the online acceptances are posted much before you get the tangible letter. Good luck!</p>