Honors and Scholarships

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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<p>This is a situation about a friend:
So I've read that the top 10% per college get honors and about the top 25% overall get merit, but I'm wondering how accurate that is. I (superstarlala) was accepted RD with honors and an 18k freshman year, 9k per semester. I also was accepted to their College of Engineering.
My friend who has much better stats than me was accepted EA with honors, and a 12k Freshman, 6k per semester scholarship. She applied to the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.</p>

<p>My stats: 3.5 UW/4.27 W. 2100 SAT (750 M, 680 CR, 670 W), 34 ACT (30 E, 36 M, 36 S, 34 R)
Her stats: 3.98 UW/ 4.8 W. 2270 SAT (M 700, 800 CR, 770 W)
We both had about the same course load with APs, Honors, and IBs.</p>

<p>Me and her were both wondering why I got a larger scholarship than her, especially since I applied RD and to the College of Engineering which apparently is more popular and harder to get into. She applied to many of the same schools as me so I'd appreciate any answers on this. Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you’re also a young woman, they may be trying to attract more women to engineering. </p>

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<p>I’m not sure about your situation, but here’s my info to add to your puzzle:</p>

<p>I was accepted RD into “undeclared students” with a 20k/year merit scholarship, but I didn’t get into the honors program.</p>

<p>My sats are: 4.5 GPA (3.98 unweighted), 2260 SAT, 33 ACT
obviously lots of AP/honors and many extracurriculars (student body pres., sports, jobs, internships, etc)</p>

<p>I’m mostly wondering why I got such a large scholarship but I didn’t even get into the honors program… any thoughts there would help!</p>

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<p>One of my friends had very strong stats, etc. but was not accepted into honors. It turned out (she somehow discovered a few years later) that the only reason was apparently because her guidance counselor wrote her a poor letter of recommendation because of some weird vendetta against her or something.
But my point is - is there perhaps one piece of your application that didn’t match with everything else that may have precluded them from offering you honors?</p>

<p>Also, remember that if you have strong grades when you start, you can join the honors program after your first or second semester.</p>

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<p>Each school has different standards and different funding. The engineering school may get more corporate funding for scholarships than Social Sciences and Humanities.</p>

<p>A lot of schools look at CR+CM. Your score is 1480. Her score is 1500. They aren’t statistically different.</p>

<p>The stats for the entire student body keep increasing, so getting into honors is hard to predict by looking at GPA and test scores alone.</p>

<p>Northeastern deferred people, who based on a one sentence summary appeared as qualified as people who were accepted.</p>