Did everyone who got accepted today have their Mid-Year Report submitted? If I didn’t hear from NU today am I not eligible for merit scholarships?
Merit aid is also awarded on March but all the Scholars offers have been made.
Decision: Accepted With 15k International Scholarship
Applied (ED,EA,RD): RD
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (730M 730CR 720W)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: 680 Math I, 680 Math II, 670 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I guess you could say 3.7, but I’m an international student so not really. I got AAD in my A-Levels (like the UK version of IB) in Maths, Politics and Further Maths respectively. I’m predicted an A in my History A-Level that I’m taking this year. In my GCSE’s I got 5A* 4A 1B.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I ran the political debating society at my school. Ran the mock election campaign for the Liberal democrat party. Ran probably 10 house events over two years (house singing, music, drama, debating etc.). I generally did quite a lot of stuff around school, gave a lot of politics, history and music talks, one on feminism.
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: I went on the school volunteering trip to Uganda, but I tried to avoid mentioning it in my application because I realised pretty soon after going that a bunch of rich white westerner kids going out to Africa to “teach” kids practically our own age maths they could probably already do better than me is pandering at best, highly offensive at worst.
Summer Activities: Chill with a few beers in the sun? Lol I’m not dedicated enough to give up my summer for anything.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Rah I don’t know how I could rate my own writing on a scale like that. Anyone who rates themselves a 10 must be hella arrogant. I wrote about my music, how I’d got picked up my Mike Skinner (of the Streets, one of the best British musical outfits ever imo), had label meetings with Parlophone etc. Basically how it just seemed to all fall in to place by luck, but how realistically all those years of me spouting my angry teenage musings and aggressive guitar chords to the wall in my room led to where I am now. I was pretty happy with it, at least it’s not generic.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 6 - Maths teacher so probably pretty rigid, he was an alright guy but didn’t really know me and I was shit in his modules, but he did see how hard I worked at revision and we’d get on pretty well when talking about non-maths stuff.
Teacher Rec #2: 9 - Politics teacher, she’s a joker and we all loved her. She told me she went really all out on her recommendation so must be pretty good. She also saw a lot of my extracurricular stuff cause a lot of it was politics related and the class was so relaxed so she heard about my music stuff a lot too.
Counselor Rec: They brought in some new woman to do American applications at my school while I was on my gap year so I’d never met her before, she would have asked my housemaster to do it but he’d just left the school so I think it wasn’t exactly the best it could have been.
Additional Rec:
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope, would have if I could have tho.
Intended Major: Political Science
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): United Kingdom (NW London rep your endz)
School Type: Private (But I was on a bursary)
Ethnicity: White Irish
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~ £60,000 before tax for my mum. Dad probably earns over 150k but he won’t pay for shit so who cares!
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection
Strengths:
Weaknesses: My D in Further Maths lol, lack of volunteering.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: SAT scores, hopefully quite different CommonApp and my international location.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Most of my decisions come out end of March. I was rejected from major scholarship consideration at USC. Got an offer with 30k scholarship from Albright.
General Comments : Northeastern was probably like 6th or 7th on my list. Was a pleasant surprise to get an offer and a scholarship this early on, will definitely be one of my top choices now, but tbh money is still a big issue for me. I’d have to take out a massive loan to go.
Same for me @lcs2016
Decision: Accepted
Applied (RD): Apparently i got into honors college. and i am CompSci Major
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 800 R, 730 M
ACT (breakdown):34: 31M 35 E, 34 S, 34 R
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1/75
AP (place score in parenthesis):CompSci(4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP: Spanish, Gov, English, Micro and Macroeconomics; College calc, Honors Physics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National Merit Commendation, National honor society
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Eagle Scout, NHS, Hockey and Golf varsity)
Job/Work Experience: nope lol
Volunteer/Community service: Tutor hispanic kids in my community, over 250 hours of boy scout service protects
Summer Activities: online classes, computer programs at Stanford
Essays (rating 1-10, details): solid 10s, worked with a friend that owns an editing company, so they were legit
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 11s, had an English teacher and a friend write them, they were both great, and the one from my math teacher was probably good, she likes me
Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: nope lol
Intended Major: Computer Science Baby
State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: crappy small Christian school
Ethnicity:White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 500k +
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):Yeah right
Reflection This was a safety school for me, but the amount of scholarships they offered me made it ove up on my list
Strengths: Bomb aass grades and course loads, some of the best in school history
Weaknesses: White straight christian male middle class
Why you think you were accepted: they want my sexy stats
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Stanford is only other place I have heard from, and I am too white for them, so it was a no go
General Comments : Advice: don’t be white and a middle class male, it sucks
Accepted RD to the College of Science with Dean’s Scholarship for 12k per year!
I also got into the honors program. I received the decision Tuesday but didnt see the email until now.
I’ll update later with my stats.
Congratulations to everyone!
Decision: Accepted with Connections Scholarship 25k/year
Applied (RD): I got into the college of engineering as a bioengineering major
Objective:
SAT
ACT (breakdown):35 : 32M 35 E, 36 S, 36 R
SAT II: Math I 760
Literature: 750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Non-traditional student
AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP Micro (5)
AP Macro (5)
AP US Hist (5)
AP Lang (4)
AP Calc AB (4)
AP Stats (5)
AP Lit (5)
AP Enviormental (5)
AP Gov & Pol (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP: Chem, AP Calc BC , Honors Physics, Spanish 4 honors, AP Comp Scie A
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National Merit Commendation, National Hispanic Scholar, National AP scholar, FCA Christian athlete of the year, WOT athlete of the week, Multiple Varsity awards
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity tennis Cap (4 years), USTA competitive tennis, MUN, Creative Writing, self-published novel
Volunteer/Community service: A lot of volunteering at sports events and founded an NGO for children in my home country
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I consider myself a pretty good writer and they were a little weird. I usually hate everything I write after a month or two but these essays still feel decent after two months (I’ll give them a 9)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 8s, My school made a mess of these letters but NEU ended up getting 2 good letter from my math and physics teachers. They like me and know me well enough, considering class size was like five people. I guess they were good 
Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Bioengineering
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: half Virtual school and half Christian school
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: on the low end
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hispanic Female interested in engineering
Reflection: Safety school but would be very happy here. I love Boston
Strengths: Great Academic stats, strong volunteering and extracurricular
Weaknesses: Deadlines, honestly my school has like 50 senior and everything was sent late
Why you think you were accepted: I’m was a pretty strong candidate overall
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: First admissions decision I receive, I actually got really emotional when I found out I was accepter 
General Comments :
Wondering if anyone from Long island was accepted in this round? When i look at the admissions counselors for our area i get this message. (there used to be a counselor Jessica Rezil)
No counselor is available for your area. Questions can be directed to admissions@neu.edu. A member of the admissions counseling team would be happy to assist.
@kristi4806 I, too, am freaking out! I’m on LI, too, and I haven’t heard back. Does anyone know why people are hearing earlier?
@schroscat I spoke to admissions today and confirmed that there IS in fact someone in the spot now covering for the old counselor that left them. She did say that they have to really review the schools and their “school report” before sending out decisions. I’d be surprised if anyone from Long Island was in the initial pool of acceptances but if they were they were reviewed before the counselor left maybe? My son has pretty comparable stats, a 32 ACT, amazing ECs, goes to a great private school with very hard classes and didn’t hear a thing… We are still hoping
Same for me @lcs2016 and @DynamicProphet
@kristi4806 Ah, okay, that makes more sense. I also go to a private school as well, and many of us are awaiting a decision from NU. NU, at least for me, is a match, so I’m hoping for the best; the last day to hear back is April 1st, so I’m staying hopeful until then. Thanks for the update!
@kristi4806 @sccr
Has anybody gotten any information about need-based aid yet?
@jessiatwi245 If you were accepted last week the need based aid would have been included as a tab on your acceptance portal.
@TomSrOfBoston but how is that possible since it wasn’t their financial aid deadline yet? I applied regular and got in, with a 12k Dean’s scholarship, but i hadn’t submitted my FAFSA yet so they couldn’t just decide to not consider me for need-based aid
@samrj2016 Did you submit the CSS?
yes, their aid page says they’ve received it @TomSrOfBoston
Decision: Accepted into Honors program
Applied (ED,EA,RD): RD
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2110 (660 CR, 720 M, 730 W)
ACT (breakdown): did not submit
SAT II: 620 Literature, 700 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.84
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), European History (4), Art History (3), English Lang (5), U.S. History (4), Spanish Lang (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro/Macroeconomics, Physics, AP Lit, AP Environmental Science, AP Psych
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, National Commended Scholar, AP Scholar w/ distinction, NHS, etc.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JSA, Mock Trial, Art Club, etc.
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: various
Summer Activities: community service, JSA
Essays (rating 1-10, details): it was good (8/10)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: pretty decent (8/10)
Teacher Rec #2: didn’t read but should’ve been good
Counselor Rec: generic but okay (6/10)
Additional Rec: n/a
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: History
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: URM
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <60k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first gen
Reflection
Strengths: decent overall application, good stats
Weaknesses: SAT IIs, weak extracurriculars
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: decent stats
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Northeastern is the only one I’ve heard back from so far, waiting on McGill, UCLA, UCSD, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Skidmore, Kenyon
General Comments: quite pleased, wasn’t expecting Honors
How did RD applicants get notified? DS applied RD and has had no word.