<p>Northeastern was one of my son's top three schools. A few days ago he committed to another school in Boston. The evening before decision day, he receives a notification of an Achievement Award $10k/year; would have been nice to have had this information a week ago. He thought he had all relevant information for his decision. Anyone else receive this award after they committed to another school?</p>
<p>That’s too bad it came so late. Do you think it would have changed your final decision?</p>
<p>I got that award last Saturday! I’m happy to say it changed my decision. Now instead of graduating from BU $40,000 in dept, I can go to NEU loan free!</p>
<p>I think they must hold off on committing money until they see how their first-choice students’ acceptance rate looks. My daughter got nothing in finaid except govt loans and workstudy until very late in the game, when they came up with a $22K grant, which they told us, even later, really at the last minute, was guaranteed for the duration of her time at NEU and would even increase if tuition did. Unfortunately, they had already dropped out of consideration based on the first aid letter which stated either we didn’t need grant money or her academic record didn’t warrant any, neither of which had been the judgment of several other very good schools.</p>
<p>In our case our son was declining admission to NEU, as the Achievement Award letter was in transit to CA. @notakid explanation makes sense. Our son’s decision was between BC, SCU (in CA), NEU, and BU. If he had the award a week earlier he’d probably would have gone to NEU. Anyway, he decided on BC. Glad to hear that some got the award in time.</p>