<p>Does anyone know any stats?</p>
<p>It has been the top 10% of applicants per college. Every year it gets harder to get in, so there aren’t any set “get this SAT and you will be admited” statistic.</p>
<p>10% is correct. Anecdotally, I’ve been very surprised by how selective it is. I just met a girl who got into Georgetown but chose Northeastern over it, and wasn’t in the honors college. Many of my smart friends aren’t in it either. </p>
<p>I’ve heard international village (the dorm that houses the honors college students) called the “ivy rejects tower.”</p>
<p>But take that with a grain of salt. :)</p>
<p>Check out the “Institutional Accomplishments” for student body trends (includes SAT scores). Top 10%. </p>
<p>[Institutional</a> Accomplishments](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/neuhome/aboutnortheastern/institutional-accomplishments.html]Institutional”>http://www.northeastern.edu/neuhome/aboutnortheastern/institutional-accomplishments.html)</p>
<p>I was a little concerned about running into the “ivy rejects” mindset my freshman year (I’m in honors and was living in IV), but I did not get that feeling at all. Maybe it’s the people I hang out with, but I don’t recall running into that in IV ever.</p>
<p>Just anecdotal - my daughter is friends with two freshman at Northeastern from the same HS. The lower ranked kid who applied EA is in honors and the valedictorian who applied RD is not. So EA may get you a better shot at honors.</p>
<p>But what are their colleges? Honors is harder, for example, in engineering than communications because the overall strength of engineering applicants tends to be higher than comm. I know plenty of people with top grades who didn’t get honors because of their college. Don’t forget- it’s the top 10% per college, not the university.</p>
<p>I asked her that and although I don’t remember the exact majors I believe they were enrolled in the same college.</p>
<p>My D is in honors and she didnt apply to any ivies, she is in nursing and did not like U Penn</p>
<p>My D is a Freshman in honors engineering. “Loves” IV and NEU overall. Very happy.</p>
<p>Someone in the parents forum was asking about schools that had good engineering merit aid. I had put in a post there, and re-posting here since it seems to be relevant to this thread…</p>
<p>…Our daughter was 6/400 in HS, 6 APs, SAT math 760, reading 750, writing 740. She got accepted to (with merit shown) NEU ($20K), SU ($12K - top level), UMass (full tuition + $1K), RPI ($10K, then appealed with NEU letter and bumped to $20K), Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh (forgot, sorry, but I think low). Defered early action Princeton, then rejected. </p>
<p>She was heavily leaning towards RPI. Civil Engineering with minor in Architecture. RPI has a combined program that ties the two together (heard from dean at admitte students day and had e-mails with him on details, but hard to find on their web site), and adds 0 tuition masters for 5th year. But she has been in dance since age 3, and there wasn’t much for dance at RPI. She had wanted the classic college campus out of the city, so RPI was a match on that for sure. We almost didn’t go to NEU. But after the 2nd visit during admitted students day we did the usual bookstore tour. She wanted to buy a t-shirt (never happened before), and knew that was the place for her. She got great vibes about the balanced student life (engineering is well represented, but I think it’s just under 20% as opposed to RPI), and even though in the city, it has a 73 acre campus with green areas here and there. She’s in honors, so the International village (new tower, with AC, and other stuff) and absolutely loves NEU (OK, it’s only been about 2 months). One plus (or minus depending on how you look at it), NEU has the co-op program, where you go for 3 6 month co-ops during your undergrad and graduate in 5yrs. They have an accelerated version where if you come in with a decent amount of AP (I think 3-4 courses is OK), you do 2 co-ops and graduate in 5 yrs with a BS and MS. BTW - you don’t pay tuition while on co-op, and co-ops could be local to Boston (you could stay in dorm and pay room/board) or live at home or even abroad while on co-op. </p>
<p>NEU is rising in the rankings overall as shown in their “Institutional Accomplishment” doc, which you can find on top page (neu.edu) under the “About” drop down. Note the rising SAT scores as well. We had seen several students with 2100 SATs overall rejected during the seasonal admittance thread. But RPI and especially Carnegie Mellon (from her choice list) are the next tier up the chain for engineering.</p>
<p>^ BillysDad2014</p>
<p>Could not help but notice
“UMass (full tuition + $1K)”
Are you a Massachusetts residence?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Yes vryproud.</p>