@twaldau96: As an international applicant admission criteria are different (SAT scores are not considered). It would be best for you to call NU admissions.
S accepted with Dean’s Scholarship.
11 AP classes
Admitted to CCIS
National Achievement Finalist
I’m pretty surprised that I didn’t at least get waitlisted. With 2 years of full time dual enrollment, I have 16 college courses, in 9 of which I received a 4.0 (5.0 weighted) and the rest a minimum of 3.3 (4.3 weighted). Along with stellar ECs, a strong essay and a great guidance counselor rec, I thought for sure that the 2 years of dual enrollment would make me stand out!
Does anyone know if the actual school you’re applying into matters (ie, Bouvé College of Health Sciences)? If a specific school is more selective, do you have a lower chance of being admitted to the University?
Miapare, Just a hunch but if you already have 2 years of college, that is 2 years less you will be paying tuition. Just guessing
@maxie97 In the status check portal, there are 3 links under Decision Documents: Decision, financial aid, scholarship. Apparently if there isn’t a link for financial aid or scholarship, you don’t get any. I would still call and check though!
Biggest determinant of NUin? Your family’s ability to pay. Northeastern isn’t need blind, so they take into account family income.
How do I know this? Straight from the mouth of an AO there.
The other factors seem to be true. He/she mentioned it was for people who had lower stats, and the bed/space thing seems reasonable.
Also simply looking at numbers 30ACT/2000 SAT seems to be about the boundary for acceptance/NUin/rejection. Above it you set much more likely for regular acceptance, below it not so much.
NUin specifically does not give great FA because they’ve determined these people can absorb the costs.
Rejected
1920 SAT
3.87 Unweighted GPA (out of 4)
top 5% of my class
Senior Year : AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish, AP French
7 APs and all Honors TOTAL, AP English (3), AP Euro (3), APUSH (4)
Activites/Leadership
Varsity Soccer 4 years, Captain
Varsity Basketball 4 years
Varsity Track 3 years, Captain
National Honor Society President
Board of Education Member (Student Liaison) - CT BOE Leadership Award
Vice-President of my Class (Soph Year)
President of my Class (Junior Year)
French Honor Society Historian
Spanish Honor Society Vice President
Partnering Dance Class
Leo Club, AFS Club, Yes Club
Part time job for 3 years, 150 + hours of Community Service
ECs are amazing, Essay was great, letter of recs were good (I’m very close with the two teachers)
I even visited/toured Northeastern.
I’m kind of surprised I was rejected. It was my #2. My SATs were on the lower end but not awful, but I felt like everything else made up for it. I got into the UCONN Honors Program (which requires a 1400 SAT M+CR which I was well short of), so it just goes to show how your ECs can make up for your SAT scores.
Accepted today with Excellence Scholarship
33 ACT
3.4 UW GPA
decent extracurriculars and lots of volunteering
I’m pleasantly surprised that I was accepted, but I’m not sure if I will attend bc of money
I was accepted today into Music Composition and Technology.
10k scholarship starting my sophomore year (thought this was weird).
32 ACT
3.6 UW GPA
Pretty good ECs and letters of rec
Really good essay (if I do say so myself)
I was pretty surprised to get in (this was one of my reach schools) and VERY surprised to get any merit aid, since I didn’t think I’d be among the top 25%. Can’t complain, though!
accepted - 33 ACT, 3.9 GPA, NJ, architecture program
@Gorgorooni congrats! My S was accepted to Music Industry EA with similar stats, and got the same scholarship. Weird, yes, but it’s still $30K!!
My S was accepted but with the 16k scholarship and he is a NMF. I thought all NMFs got the 30k/year?
Does he officially have northeastern as his first choice with national merit? If so, I’d contact admissions to try to figure out what’s going on.
OhI thought we had more time to do that. That’s what it must be. I think the deadline is mid April.
There’s still plenty of time to do it. As long it’s changed by the deadline the scholarship will show up.
Accepted to the D’Amore-McKim School of Business with an intended major in International Business/French as well as the NE Achievement award.
ACT: 32 (single take)
GPA: Unweighted : 3.97
HS: French lycée system (basically attending a french high school in the US)
No AP classes offered, AP Scholar
Extracurriculars:
Dance Company, Team Captain of Performance Team
State ranked Harpist
Charity work
So thankful to have been accepted!
son was accepted
2060 SATs (math 700, Reading 760, writing 600)
800 on US history subject test
3.82 GPA.
Extracurriculars:
4 years member varsity ski team for high school, 2 years as captain
7 years member club ski team, 2 years captain
qualified for national championships in his discipline of equestrian 5 years in a row
spent summers working for a former world champion in his equestrian sport - his common app essay was about the first summer he worked for the former world champion at the age of 14, living in a tent on a farm 2 and 1/2 hours from home, working 6 days a week.
10 years member of US Pony Club, with a high level of certification achieved
many volunteer hours for a non-profit
Got zero financial aid - how Northeastern thinks we can afford $62k per year is beyond me (we also have another child in college). They are on crack. Every other college he’s been accepted by has given him money, a couple amounts have been significant. Congrats to those who got in & can afford to go here.
@cookli, did they give you a letter saying there was zero aid, or was the letter just absent?
They gave us a financial aid letter telling us he got $0.