Hi, Im alittle new to his site, but I was wondering about my chances at the Northeastern PharmD program. I am a high school senior looking to apply this Fall. I currently have a 35 on the act, a 2290 on the sat(780 R. 730 M. 780 W.), and an 800 on the chem sat2. Im gonna retake the sat though to get a little higher on the math. Do any of you guys have any idea how much money I’d be able to get for tuition. I’m a middle class white student from Long Island. I also have a lot of extra curriculars and will have no problem getting recommendation letters. Please anyone answer if they can help. Thank you
You’d almost definitely get merit money, but idk how much; there’s no obvious pattern to how NU decides to award merit money. It will depend on the competition in the overall applicant pool, your specific major, and a combo of your extracurriculars, GPA, etc. For what it’s worth, I had a 94/100 uw GPA, 35 ACT, and a handful of very involved/leadership in EC’s, applying as a business major (and this was for the entering class of 2014), I got $20k in merit.
Ok, thanks so much for sharing! I hope I can do just as well
I have similar stats and got full tuition - really depends, I guess. Not sure about PharmD.
If you get national merit finalist/semi-finalist, you’ll have an almost for-sure shot at half tuition.
Also: if you want to stay close to home, Stonybrook offered me good aid. Definitely considered going over there, but Northeastern was the best choice.
Hi Julian, Do you mind sharing if you got merit aid or financial aid (you mentioned full tuition). I thought NU did not give full tuition as merit (non-need based). Did you get full board also? Trying to determine how generous merit is at NU.
Thanks
I believe Julian is in the Scholars program which is full tuition. It does not cover room and board. Northeastern is very generous with aid for top applicants, usually the top 25% of admitted students.
Here are the 2014 stats:
http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/application-information/academic-profile/
@suzyQ7 Hey suzy - yes, @TomSrOfBoston is correct - I was placed in the Scholars Program (no separate application required), and that covers just tuition (plus some extra scholars-only resources and research grants). I’ll be paying around $10,000-$15,000 per year since Boston’s cost of living is relatively high.
I believe that the scholars program is the top purely merit-based scholarship. There are scholarships that cover tuition as well as board - but those are either for high achieving, low-income students (Torch), or for students who attended a Boston public high school and were nominated by their guidance counselor.
PLEASE don’t count on getting Scholars, I beg of you. You can have absolute tippy top stats and a compelling story and still not be picked. The program is just so incredibly small that it’s hard to predict.
@novafan1225 We mentioned Scholars to show that full tuition is the max merit aid that Northeastern gives. There are no full ride merit scholarships. And yes, selection for Scholars is very holistic.
Has NEU been know to give full tuition (excl R & B) for non-Scholars?
@julianstanley and @TomSrOfBoston what are some things they look for in the Scholars?
here is the page with all the details
http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
they used to give full tuition for national merit but stopped that
I don’t think there is any kind of formula for scholars and nobody knows what they are looking for.
wow, kind of all over the map!
http://www.northeastern.edu/universityscholars/prospective-scholars/
Oh no, definitely worth mentioning, but I’ve seen several people get attached to the idea of the Scholars program and then become really upset if not admitted. They’re looking for a lot of things, good grades and test scores, interesting EC’s, passion for something, etc. I think diversity also plays a large role in the program, not necessarily ethnic but geographically and interest/passion-wise. They really want to build a group of people from all over with different perspectives.
@suzyq7 No, the highest merit other than Scholars is $30,000 for NMF’s.