<p>I am hearing a lot of discussion at our school about whether it is better to be accepted to the NU In program or to be waitlisted. If you are waitlisted, you have the opportunity to get in for the fall, but with NU In you can only go in the spring and only after you go to and pay for the expensive international program. Which students are higher up in NU's ranking - waitlisted or NU In? We are all trying to figure this out. Thanks.</p>
<p>If you are admitted to NUin, you are admitted. It seems fairly obvious to me that this would be considered a better position than being waitlisted. Recently, especially, very few students have been admitted off of the waitlist because they had a higher than expected percentage of accepted students who chose to attend.</p>
<p>With the large numbers of applications at NU over the past few years, movement off the waitlist has slowed and is not guaranteed. I am not sure if there is a statistic you can find or ask admissions how many were accepted off the waitlist last year. But it is known that waitlisted students have absolutely no idea if they will ever come off the waitlist. They are encouraged to make a choice and deposit at another school. </p>
<p>NUin students absolutely are qualified and will be on campus in January. Once there, they are fully integrated into the school and no one knows or cares where they were in the fall. My D is a sophomore currently on her first co-op, she is a member of a sorority and some other clubs. She liked her housing spring of '13, had a good selection for housing fall/spring and is moving steadily through the academic/coop cycle.<br>
If Northeastern is a top choice, and NUin was offered it, I would encourage anyone to investigate it thoroughly, read threads from last year, go to an NUin information session and decide what is the best for you personally. It isn’t for everyone, but many who do go embrace it fully. </p>
<p>You can search youtube for NUin Dublin 2013 (or which ever site you might be interested in) to see of the student participants’ videos slides. </p>
<p>I would say NUin is pretty much on par with waitlisted; both are there to ensure that NEU makes the most money possible, filling up the class to the brim. NUin might have a slight edge just because students are guaranteed a spot eventually while waitlist students are rarely admitted. However, the NUin program is for marginal/borderline applicants much like waitlisted students.</p>
<p>@novafan1225, </p>
<p>Saying that NUin is on par with waitlisted and that they are borderline applicants is a misleading if not false statement.</p>
<p>I lived on campus for the first semester of my freshman year, but I have many friends who are in the NUin program, who are more than qualified to be at Northeastern. Many of them had better statistics than those who lived at Northeastern.</p>
<p>The idea behind NUin is allowing for students who the admissions staff deems ready to live abroad the opportunity to do so. Some students that Northeastern accepts to live on campus for freshman year don’t have the qualities to live off campus their freshman year.</p>
<p>If you were accepted to the NUin program, you are a Northeastern student. You met the qualities of the rest of the freshman class, and you stood out among the applicants at the school.</p>
<p>The waitlist does mean that they see something they like in you, but unfortunately don’t have room for you. You are not guaranteed a spot at Northeastern, so if it is a school you desire to go to, then NUin is better than the waitlist for you.</p>
<p>NUin allows you to complete a study abroad semester and develop a close knit group of friends before coming to Boston.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t have minded being accepted into the program.</p>
<p>“The waitlist does mean that they see something they like in you, but unfortunately don’t have room for you” Isn’t that almost exactly what the NUin program is designed for? I am not at all saying NUin students aren’t qualified to be NEU students, because they made it in, obviously they deserve it. It just seems that it is designed for the lower portion of the admitted students, and particularly the full pay students. Again, being an NUin student does not mean you’re a bad student and I’m sure many thrive more so than the students admitted to Boston for the fall. However, the concept that if you’re “selected” for the NUin program you either have to go abroad or cannot go at all seems a little fishy. There has to be more to it, as much as they sell it otherwise.</p>
<p>It just bothers me a little that this seems to be a way for NEU to guarantee the most revenue possible. I mean no offense to NUin admitted students, and I’m sure it is ideal and beneficial, on top of being extremely fun, for a lot of students.</p>
<p>Northeastern ends up having a more fluid student population than a lot of schools, and that creates challenges for enrollment consistency. With people always coming and going from co-op and graduating the half year because of their co-ops, they need to account for that in how they admit incoming students.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I’m a past NUin student and studied abroad in Australia in 2012. So the NUin program is not close to the same level as being waitlisted. The NUin program consists of a variety of students, including those far above the average of the fall accepted students. The students in NUin are not those “scraped from the bottom of the barrel” kind, but they are students that the Northeastern University’s Admissions Office believed would best represent Northeastern across the globe. Northeastern is becoming a global University very fast and the NUin program shows just that. Some believe the NUin program exists because of housing on Northeastern campus and then they choose the most well rounded individuals to go abroad. Some believe its because of Financial/Social status of the student. These are simply rumors. I know it is odd not being accepted to attend Northeastern in the fall, but it does not mean you are not good enough. As I’ve said, I know students who went that had top of the line GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, lots of ECs, etc. I highly suggest you attend an “Inside NUin” session to learn more about the NUin program and what it has to offer. If you have questions about it, anyone can inbox me and I’ll be more than happy to reply! :)</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about whether or not by talking with admissions there is any chance of a student accepted to NUin having their acceptance changed to NU standard admission? </p>
<p>@Lovescchool608: No, if you were offered NUin, you cannot get regular September admission nor can you reapply for January admission. </p>
<p>@Lovescchool608: @TomSrOfBoston is right. However, it shouldn’t be something you immediately cross off your list. Take the time and consider every option as you should normally do with every college decision :)</p>
<p>NUin is a form of the midyear college acceptance which many schools offer – as discussed in this NY Times article last year:</p>
<p><a href=“More College Applicants Don’t Get In Until Winter - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/education/more-college-applicants-dont-get-in-until-winter.html</a></p>
<p>While some colleges offer midyear admission as a choice, many others assign students to this category when they accept them. One could speculate endlessly about whether waitlist or midyear admits are ranked higher by the college, but it is a pointless exercise. The bottom line, as others have pointed out, is that midyear admission is a sure thing albeit on a different timetable, whereas admission off the waitlist is exceedingly iffy.</p>
<p>Some colleges allow midyear admissions students to make their own choices for the first semester, whereas it appears at NU all midyear accepts do one of a number of specific programs abroad. You could view this as being forced into “an expensive international program” or as a great opportunity to begin college with a unique experience and a broadened perspective on your place in the world. Your choice…</p>