About where do your GPA/standardized scores have to be to successfully land in the “top 10% of all applicants” for a merit scholarship? Any general guidelines? Is a 3.7UW/4W/34 ACT good enough?
Northeastern gives its best merit aid to the top applicants each year…so it’s very hard to say what that will be…because it so depends on the applicant pool.
Your ACT score is great…but your GPA isn’t s high as one might guess.
Are you a NMF?
So…just wait and see.
No, I’m not unfortunately! My high school is Southern California’s most academically rigorous but yes, I agree that my GPA is below what my ACT might suggest. Hopefully this doesn’t drag me out of the running.
CDS looks like 75th ACT comp percentile ends at 34, https://provost.northeastern.edu/uds/facts/common-data-set/
Don’t hold your breath.
I know many students with a 34 that received merit from Northeastern just last year. OP, you have a shot. Good luck!
I have a 4.24 W (not sure UW) and 35 ACT and received merit money from them yesterday, so I would say you should be fine! Good luck!
Thank you to all that responded! I appreciate the insight. I can only hope!! Congratulations. @del0107 that’s amazing!
@kkpita1, the devil is in the details though, how much $$ is the question to ask, my kid with your stats, 2 yrs ago, was offered 10K a yr starting in soph year LOL. That is chump change compared to the COA. @del0107, how much was your scholarship for, and were you NMF?
the 75th% is 34, OP is not in the top 10%. Little vanity scholarships like my kid was offered don’t impact the COA in any real way.
Lucky, I didn’t get squat. Yay 64K a year!
I had a 3.8 and a 1540 and received 12,000 a year
thank you @sybYLLA for the help! That’s true, Northeastern is an incredible school but so incredibly expensive, 10k doesn’t really cut it. I do have 3k a year from raise.me, lol
Congrats, @a20171 - were you an ED applicant this year or did you apply in previous years?
@coled2012 I feel your pain! Hopefully Northeastern and Boston are cool enough to compensate, you’ll get some pretty awesome job opportunities
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread, its some nice and eye opening insight 
Last year
Last year, my son received $20k in merit and $0 in need aid. When he became NMF, I called admissions if he’ll receive $30k for NMF as listed on the website. They were a bit evasive and non-commital. After the 3rd phone call, they finally said NMF MAY receive up to $30k, but not always. My son’s stats included 35 ACT and 3.9 UW GPA, 4.5 W GPA. I agree with @Sybylla. $20k is more than $10k but the remaining COA was still too high. At info session, the admission rep did emphasize that Northeastern is a need aware school.
My son applied for the FTC Robotics scholarship at Northeastern too. Our email to the contact person never responded to our messages (3)!
@a20171, so you didn’t attend?
@Sybylla No I chose a different school I applied RD
My daughter is a freshman at Northeastern. Her GPA was 3.9 with quite a few AP classes. Her ACT was 34. She
received $28,000 per year. She absolutely loves the school, the people and Boston.
This gives me hope! Visiting Northeastern made me fall in love with the city and I’m so glad she felt the same. Is that a weighted GPA, or unweighted? What did ECs look like? Thanks so much for this insight.
@andtam ^ 
@andtam, FA or merit? It helps to define if you have financial need in these merit threads.
I agree with @Sybylla.