There are limited spaces for Fall Boston admits and so many applicants. They offer strong candidates these other options as a way in to NU, and for students they think are good candidates for these programs.
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My guy submitted his 1410, despite the instruction to not submit anything below 1470. He made that decision because his GPA was low (3.3UW, 3.7W) due to pandemic schooling in Fresh/Soph year and he felt like a 1410 was better than one would expect from a 3.3 GPA applicant. Junior year was As with a couple Bs.
Heâs been deferred to RD. Marine Bio. I thought heâd be a straight rejection.
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I heard they deferred everyone and rejected students with negative recommendations.
Just got an email from Northeastern Oakland this morning, they allow campus change after the first or second year:
Northeastern University Oakland is the newest undergraduate campus in Northeasternâs global network, offering academic programs and experiential learning opportunities that reflect the buzzing entrepreneurial spirit of the Bay Area. In addition to Discover Oakland, our program for Undeclared students, four of our prestigious colleges will offer majors and combined majors in Oakland this fall. They are:
DâAmore-McKim School of Business
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
College of Science
Oakland students will complete academic programs that feature the same core curriculum requirements as degrees offered at our Boston campus. Click here to see our complete offering of courses for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Students who find that their academic interest changes during their time at Northeastern University Oakland can request to transition to another Northeastern University undergraduate campus after their first year of study if they seek to transfer into an academic program not offered in Oakland. Additionally, applications for inter-campus transfers will be considered after two years of full-time study on the Oakland campus.
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This is the exact circumstance which always drives me crazy with schools that flat out reject looking at SAT/ACT. Congratulations to him on showing what he can do!
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Thanks!
Folks who got deferred donât feel bad, especially if you have top stats. It is confirmed NEU practices Yield management for Boston Campus, for which the stats are reported for college rankings. One example of a student:
Valedictorian, Accepted EA to MIT, Cambridge, GTech and Mich but deferred by NEU 
Our student also got deferred with top stats.
Wish the Univ could be clear about that upfront.
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I 100% think that Northeastern not requiring supplemental essays lends to their well-earned reputation as an add-on school for those already applying to BC, BU and Tufts. Itâs an easy, âclick and payâ and a âmay as wellâ when looking at Boston-based schools. My daughter followed suit along with so many others, and added Northeastern because it was so easy to apply and no additional thought was needed to complete the application. Brilliant on Northeasternâs part as it serves to likely double the number of applicants whilst lowering the acceptance rate , not to mention millions of dollars in application fee revenue. With that said, Northeastern seems to have made many positive strides in the past 10 years and has a nice campus in the middle of the city, great vibe and the coop program seemed very cool!
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Would the student have turned down MIT for Northeastern if accepted? I doubt it. Northeastern knew what they were doing when they deferred him/her.
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Agreed. But posting this so folks who are suspecting the same will get more evidence. There were many posts indicating why they would be deferred with top stats when others were accepted. NEU defers them to get their yield look good and not that they were worse candidates than those who got accepted through EA.
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Iâm not sure it s calculated as that. As a high school English teacher, reading even well-written essays is time consuming. NEU may have just decided that going through essays on top of the common app essay isnât a good indicator for admissions. Many students are hiring private college admission counselors to help them and there is really no way to know how much of the writing is truly authentic.
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Why should Northeastern offer an acceptance to someone who will likely not attend? They do not owe an acceptance to high stat applicants who have paid the application fee.
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My son was accepted to Oakland, and we are grateful for the opportunity. He was accepted into the computer science program. There are some offerings for CS at Boston that he canât get in Oakland, but he will have access to at other colleges he was accepted to. The gamble is if he requests a transfer, and they deny it, then it restricts his opportunity. And I believe theey really want to keep people in Oakland to boost the sucess of the campus. I have some other concerns but thatâs a main one. We are still open to lerning more about it before we make any decisions.
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The bottom line is that it is a costly gamble.
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They donât owe anyone anything. I am just confirming that the NEU EA decisions are cognizant more than other colleges, of the fact that NEU wants to manage its yield. Hence students with really good stats should consider that and move on. This coupled with fee waivers and no supplemental essay needed to apply acts as a double edged way of increasing the denominator by getting more applications and increase the numerator of matriculants thereby addressing the ranking factors of Acceptance rate and Yield rate favorably for NEU.
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Has anyone checked their portal today? My daughter was accepted into NUin, but her portal now says :awaiting decision." There is no mention of being accepting, NUin, or the admitted student options.
Go to Application Management and check if you have two applications showing in the portal.
For NUin acceptances, you would probably have two applications listed, Fall 2023 would show awaiting decision, and Spring 2024 would show an acceptance.
Sometimes it seems the default portal has trouble automatically showing you the correct one (with the acceptance), so it can be useful to go to the Application Management page instead.
Thank you. I already tried and got an error message. I have viewed her status through both links several times this week and even earlier this afternoon. Now I can error message through Application Management, and the old message in the Application Status.
Sorry. I see it now. I have to click on Spring 2024. Before I could view it on both applications. Very weird. Thank you.
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