<p>Does anyone think I have a chance at one of the few full-tuition scholarships that NEU generously offers? Here are my stats:</p>
<p>White Male from Long Island
Major: PoliSci and Art History</p>
<p>1320 SAT I 650V/670M
750 US History
690 Writing
660 World History
640 Biology-E
610 Math IC
560 Chemistry</p>
<p>World History 4
U.S. History 5
Taking Biology, Comparative Gov't, and Psychology this year.</p>
<p>92.771 UW/99.560 W
Upward trend in GPA:
9th-91.727 UW
10th-92.432 UW
11th-92.771 UW
12th-so far it's up to about a 92.914
Rank: 18/~220 (top 8%)</p>
<p>Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper (10, 11, 12)
Stage Manager, Drama (10, 11, 12)
Science Olympiad (9, 10, 11, 12)-State Finalist (11)
Model UN, President/co-founder of my school's chapter (12)
National Honor Society, President (11, 12)
Academic Bowl (12)-27th place out of 68..first competition for our school
Human Awareness Club (11, 12)
Dollars for Scholars (9, 10, 11, 12)
National Student Leadership Conference (Summer 2004)
McDonald's (Summer 2004)
Loews Cineplex Entertainment (12-about 15-20 hours a week)
Tutoring (11, 12)
Key Club (11, 12)
3rd Place International Debate (12)
National French Contest (9, 10, 11)</p>
<p>I think you might have a shot, but you never know with colleges. According to the website the average last year ranged from a 1220-1340 SAT score, and an average 3.9 gpa. I think this is very vague however, because if that was the case, I would also qualify for it. (I have a 3.9 gpa and a 1280 SAT). The website said however that they give this to the top 2% of all applicants, although your stats are great, you never know who else is up against you. You may not qualify for the full tuition, but you definitely have a great shot at recieving quite a bit of money from them. I know a handful of people who went to NEU from my school who recieved $10,000 from them, and he had signifigant lower stats than you... Take a look at Northeasterns scholarship website, that might help you get a better idea. </p>
<p>And also, does anyone know when the decisions come out for the Dec 15 deadline application? Because I see everyone posting about applying early but I wasn't sure if there was some sort of EA or ED deal or if it was just another term for the Dec 15 deadline. </p>
<p>No there was only a Dec 15th deadline, and a feb 1st deadline. I guess there were a select few that got an "express application", but I am not one of those lol. The was no EA or ED, but I think a lot of kids sent their apps in early (including me) because there were other deadlines in early november and they were on the common app.</p>
<p>But only the top 2% of the applicants actually receive this award. A much more realistic scholarship would be the Dean's Scholarship that ranges from 5,000-16,000, which are given to the top 25% of applicants.</p>
<p>See, that's what I'm wary about in wondering about them--how do you judge the top 2% of applicants based on other things besides SAT scores and GPA? </p>
<p>Blegh. Hopefully I'll get something good bc right now NEU is my first choice.</p>
<p>Yeah, me too. It kind of contradicts what I thought colleges did with admission by setting actual percentages of their application standards. When I went to visit NYU they were talking about their honors progrm and they kept saying that the top 8-10% of applicants were invited. Strange.</p>
<p>i called the other day, afraid that they gave out scholarships with admission and i didn't get anything. they said the scholarships go out early march.</p>
<p>Uh ***. Wow, guess I'm not going to Northeastern.</p>
<p>EDIT: Hey, maybe they mean regular admission, because they can't really assign scholarships to students, then just assign more, they'll assign scholarships based on the whole admissions pool <em>hopefully</em></p>
<p>Just editing my previous post, haha, I didn't read the last part of upsided's post, the "They said the scholarships go out early march", so just disregard my entire post.</p>