<p>Hi! I just decided that I am going to apply EA for NEU. I read somewhere on here that as long as you submit your application by the first, you can send your supporting credentials by the 15th of November. Is this true?</p>
<p>Yes, I’m pretty sure you read it on my chance post. If that isn’t where you can go look for yourself… one of the posts there says that you can get your things in by Nov. 15. However, if you are like me any don’t like to just take someone’s word for it over the internet, call the Admissions office. They are the all-knowing power for NEU admissions questions. You wouldn’t want to be late sending things in because you were mislead over the web.</p>
<p>I haven’t found anything on the northeastern website that says Nov 15 is okay. Call admissions to check, but you really should get stuff in by the first.</p>
<p>The Nov. 15 date was told to me at an admissions session at Northeastern. Basically, I was told that they get inundated with applications and so they don’t even begin reviewing them for a couple of weeks. Once they start reviewing the applications, they need to have all your documents. It is not on their website, just a reality of their workloads. With 43,000 applications to review, it takes some time. If your application is not complete when they start reviewing it, that is a problem.</p>
<p>The other reason is that school counselors are also overworked at this time and may take some extra days to get your supporting documents sent out. Admissions understands this and will cut you some slack.</p>
<p>They don’t get 43,000 EA applications.</p>
<p>So… Seeing as they send decisions mid-December, they certainly don’t wait “a couple of weeks”.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter what you heard at an admissions session. If someone made a mistake, you’re stuck. It never hurts to call admissions and check.</p>
<p>And I’ve worked at admissions for three years, and those “admission sessions” are wrong all the time.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to suggest that they “wait” a couple of weeks. Just that they have a ton of applications to process and it takes time. Anyway, it probably is a good idea to call. I was just repeating what I heard from official channels. Also, they did not break down the percentage of EA applications, so I am not sure how many thousands they get by Nov. 1, but I am sure that it is a lot.</p>