It is an option, as I said earlier. But otherwise they would be rejected. Again, not bc they are not qualified, but there is limited space like any school.
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They usually send their acceptance rates by ED, etc to college guidance counselors or they do get published. College kickstart has published them for many schools for years. They havenât gotten this years info (last time I checked.) frankly, this crowd on CC is a very small subset of folks who pay attention to such things. Most folks apply and wait to near and do not over analyze admissions processes.
Here are the early results from last Fall and NUs recent article says they got even more apps this year and 33% more ED apps this year over last (like 5300 total.)
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The issue isnât the ED %. The problem is that schools arenât transparent with their EA acceptance rate. EA gets lumped in with RD so there is no way to know how tough the EA pool is.
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FB page for parents:
For admitted students:
According to the college counselor at my kidsâ school, there is no admission advantage for applying EA vs. RD. The advantage is you find out sooner (I realize that so many are deferred).
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If you look at the link I posted above, they do and have in past years shared the EA percentages. Last year it was 6% (3,000 of 50,000).(you can look at that college kickstart page and see early admission numbers for many colleges over the past.) It has not been published yet for this year but that is not unusual. Last year was incredibly competitive bc they had said openly that they were going to manage their yield tightly and also have a smaller enrollment target to compensate for the unexpectedly high yield the year before. This year, apparently they have also shared that they are targeting a small class as well (for Boston admits) and 250-300 for both Oakland and London, but how could they know they get even more applicants than last year? Until people apply, they do not know what their application numbers are of course.
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Thank youâI was a curious about that. Was it different from their NPC if you used that? I can see that works well for families that are relying on need-based but not those relying on merit.
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EDITED: I see it now. Can you tell if this EA applicants admitted through EA or eventually RD? Or would deferred applicants show up in the RD pool?
6% seems high given their overall admissions rate.
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I do not see EA on that linkâŠis it there and I am just not seeing it on my mobile device?
I donât remember exactly, but I do remember being shocked in a good way.
My son also got into university of Denver which also uses CSS. He got ZERO financial aid, but their highest possible merit aid. So every school is different.
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My high-stats kid actually got into NU earlyâand we were shocked.
I agree people are underestimating what is a safety!
I also agree NU has to be mindful of yield for good reasons (which I have addressed in other comments).
But I also think that if schools were being transparent, they would publish each planâs rate separated out, so applicants could make an informed choice. Most families are not as savvy about the process as those on here.
It really seems purposeful on the part of colleges that offer both ED and EA to drive down admissions rates and drive up yield at the expense of students who donât really understand their chances in each round.
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In the end, private schools are like a business. A school like NEU which has limited space in a crowded city has to focused more on getting close
To their projections. I think EA just gives you a chance for an earlier answer. It doesnât increase the likelihood of acceptance.
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Thatâs true for NU but not for all colleges. UMD strongly encourages EA applications and fills most of its class in the EA round, admitting only a small percentage of RD applicants.
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It gives the opportunity for an earlier answer IF they donât defer you to protect yield 
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Right. I grew up in Massachusetts and Northeastern was the commuter work study school that pretty much anyone could get into. My cousinâs son went there about 15 years ago, and even then it wasnât nearly as competitive as it is now. The admissions officeâs job is the get the right number of students enrolled.
Anyone know when Northeastern ED2 is out? Someone said by Feb 15th so are we thinking on Feb 15th?
I do not know how it is tracked. The ED1 and EA results are shown in two lines. it does not show ED2 (or maybe that is part of ED results) or RD.
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I think many schools have alternates to a Fall on-campus start that students arenât even aware of. Last year my daughter was offered Boston campus for fall at NEU but she was offered a 2nd semester start in Paris at NYU. Thatâs not something that had really been mentioned at all as an option when she was applying to NYU.
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This is my first time posting here. I had a question about the Honors program. How does NEU select students into their honors program. Does NEU post the criteria somewhere. Also if you didnât get into the honors program in the first year can you get in the second year ?
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I donât think the criteria is published and think the program is not a big deal but here is some info on how one could apply. You can get a merit scholarship and not be in honors.
See âJoining Once You are at Northeasternâ at the link below: https://undergraduate.northeastern.edu/honors/prospective-students/honors-application-process/
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