What matters is Endowment/student and not total endowment $s. Northeastern is just way down in the ladder on that metric, against better endowed schools. #371 in this list.
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EDITED: false alarm. Once prompted they said they got the email yesterday.
Someone on Reddit just said they JUST got an acceptance email.
And they got into Boston campus.
Your son got a deans scholarship? Can you share dets for folks.
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And they have good but not crazy stats and test optional.
I can only speak to Dublin, which had 200 students in the NUin program in Fall 2022.
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does northeastern send an email as soon as a decision is ready?
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I believe so but some people got decisions in their portal without any emails at all. I am so so so frustrated with NU
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itās the first selective school iām hearing back from so iām really nervous. got into umd on friday so at least thatās an option. im just frustrated with the lack of communication and all the talk in this chat has worried me
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Kinda similar for me. I have gotten into wpi, rpi, clarkson, and u new haven but I got deferred from boston u. I love love love boston and really want to go to school there so this matters so much to me. The lack of communication and uncertainty and disorganized decision release is really having me reconsider my options.
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Did they admit any 4 years Oakland campus yesterday?
Everything will work out! I understand the frustration though - with a school this prestigious youād expect better. They need to get it together
iāve just been so anxious about this whole process. iām sure a lot of people have heard their counselors tell them about how hard admissions have been since covid. iāve just been really discouraged. good luck to everyone in the process! just hope everything works out for the best.
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Itās also hard whenever people post their stats. Itās incredibly hard to see how accomplished other people are and stay positive. But I got into Villanova and I didnāt do anything extraordinary; no nonprofit, no president roles, no researchā¦ You never know what theyāre looking for, and you have just as good a shot as anyone else!
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congrats on villanova! itās an AMAZING school! stats really freak me out but i canāt help looking at them. it just feels like iāve worked so hard for all these years and i want it to be worth it. i know many others are in the same boat.
thank you everyone for all the kind messages. youāre all making my heart warm 
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I donāt see any in this thread.
Weāll all be okay, no matter where we go. As a fellow senior whose 2nd choice is NEU (BC is my top), Iām super anxious too about the whole process. But we just need to trust the universe that things will work out. And if they donāt, thereās always ice cream therapy. And my DMs are open. <3
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NEU is also competitive because it satisfies the needs of what I call the donut hole middle class students. These are students whose parents canāt truly afford the cost, but EFCs come out high as they donāt take into account high cost of living in metro areas like Boston. So if they get into the true tops, it justifies spending to go those. But if you get into 15-30 ranking range, suddenly NEU is most appealing. They do give out some merit unlike the top colleges. In addition most of these students essentially have lots of AP/DE credits that Northeastern is very generous to accept. Ivies and others donāt or cap them. So a meritorious student can truly graduate in 3 years with average load. So the two coops in NEU then pay for one full year of college. So one needs to pay only for 2-2.5 years of college. So at the top public school our student is in, students either go to the really top colleges or go to NEU as financially NEU comes truly on top, and they donāt go the 15-30 ranked colleges. NEU also knows this and hence merit scholarships are not that high compared to other colleges at its ranking level. I know of many students who actually carried on from CoOp and maintained the job, especially in high demand majors like CS. CoOps managed well are a great boost to the finances.
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@patsguy My daughter just got back from Dublin. She had a 3.96 uw GPA and 34 ACT score in high school. My other daughter who just got accepted for NUin had a 1560 SAT and 4.0 uw GPA ā¦ so NU definitely doesnāt push lower stat kids to NUin!
Also, my NUin daughter felt that doing a study abroad is easier from an academic standpoint in your freshman year. You are basically knocking out some general ed classes. If you wait until junior year to study abroad like many student do, it can get more complicated to figure out a class schedule when you are knee deep into fitting in required upper level classes for your major. Plus, if Iām honest, classes abroad were easier ā¦ and the grades transfer as pass/fail so no impact on your GPA. Itās a great on-ramp to college after finishing what was likely an intense high school experience!
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Interesting turn of events: son got the email yesterday morning, then later received his acceptance to NUin, with an acceptance letter and letter for Deanās Scholarship.
When we log into the portal now (on computer), it says he has no status update.
Boy, they really have some tech issues. Weāre trying to laugh about it.
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