<p>^^ Very much agree.
You have to admit though, that the numbers look rather strange to the unsuspecting parent:
“College ‘A’ only admits 10% of it’s applicants.” My kid got in, cool.
“90% of students that College ‘A’ admits decide to go elsewhere.” Huh ?</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>Now, here is the pathetic part:
School presidents are paid millions of dollars to set up bureaucracies to handle these artificial selectivity machinations that if “successful”, lead to average SAT scores that are 1 - 30 points above the school’s baseline, which is well within the cv of individual students test to test differences.</p>
<p>The school floats up and down the USNWR rankings, tuition and fees go up to pay for the game, and nothing of substance has changed.</p>
<p>In my day, we applied to maybe three, four or five schools: a reach, a match and a safety or two. With the internet and online applications, especially the Common Application, students are applying to a dozen schools or more. They can only attend one in the end, so that yield rates will be low. </p>
<p>I don’t blame today’s students or the universities. Many students are fishing for a good financial aid package without being buried in debt when they graduate. From looking at this Northeastern forum, some admitted students say they will not attend because the financial aid package offered is not as good as the one they got from XYZ University. Northeastern is not a wealthy university in terms of endowment. If NU could offer more scholarships, the yield rate would be much higher.</p>
<p>OK. So I was deferred and now have been accepted into the GSP. Can anyone tell me anything about it? Make up of class, retention into soph year etc…</p>
<p>[General</a> Studies Home Page](<a href=“http://www.gsp.neu.edu/]General”>http://www.gsp.neu.edu/)</p>
<p>TomSr,
My daughter received full tuition grant money from NEU and Fordham, but less than full tuition grant money from Wooster, Denison, and Southwestern. So at least from our very limited viewpoint, NEU is more generous with money than peers, not less.</p>
<p>I will say though that I have an unproven impression that NEU favor NMF, and college major choice may be confounding factors in NEU more so than other colleges.</p>
<p>TomSr
Home page doesn’t give you the real lowdown, breakdown, stats etc</p>
<p>On the left side there is a “Contact Us” option. A phone call might help.</p>
<p>Went the “contact us” route</p>
<p>EricLG Please explain what NMF is. Thanks.</p>
<p>NMF = National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>Thanks blinkangel44 - should have known that!
Still looking for comments about the General Studies Program</p>
<p>@ EricLG</p>
<p>What you said about NU/Fordham being more generous isn’t necessarily true, especially given that your daughter was a NMF–both of those schools are unusually generous to finalists. Their offers to NMFs are not quite the norm when compared to other schools of similar caliber. I can tell you that Fordham offers a full tuition scholarship to both Semifinalists and National Hispanic Scholars, as well as NMFs.</p>
<p>wompwomp,
I agree that NMF are lured by these schools, and in fact was the reason she applied to them. Sorry I was not clearer in my earlier post. So far as I can tell though, neither school gives full tuition scholarships automatically based on NMF.</p>
<p>Hahahaha these are the types of people Northeastern accepts</p>