Accepted! 3.5 UW 32 ACT
NU in 33 ACT 4.0 unweighted gpa full ib
Ah, sorry @asinineayo - I was rooting for you.
**Decision: Accepted **
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Didn’t take
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): English 33, Math 28, Reading 35, Science 29
ACT superscore (breakdown): Science 32
SAT II (subject, score): Didn’t send them, I did horrible on Chem and Math 2, shifted my answers 
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
Weighted GPA: 4.418
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 32 of 189
AP (place score in parentheses): AP Computer Science A (3)
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Statistics, Civil Engineering and Architecture Honors, Physics Honors, Spanish 2
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): 1x 1st Game Design National Champion; 2x 1st Game Design State Champion; 2x 2nd Extemporaneous Speaking State Champion, 1x Vex Robotics Regional Champion
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): Distinguished Honor Roll every year, nothing else
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Skills USA, 10-12th, Reporter and President, A vocational based work and community service program dedicated to developing student skills; PHS Game Design Club 10-12th, President, I teach students how to make video games; VEX Robotics Club, 10-12th, Team Captain, design and build robots to compete in Vex Competitions
Job/Work Experience: I started my own game development studio (business owner) and have done a large amount of work with multi-million dollar companies.
Volunteer/Community Service: 60-100 hours every year doing retail service, fundraising, community work, etc. Also secured over $5000 in grants for the game design club (Coming from a teensy rural school, that’s a pretty big deal)
Summer Experience: 10th and 11th grade I spent doing community service and competing for game design at the Skills USA NLSC competitions, also working on vidjah gaemz
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: Can’t really judge them but I tried to blend my game design experience, narrative skills, and personal fights in them.
My common app essay I wrote about my absolute devotion to creating original entertainment experiences for people and the joy I felt when presenting my work to people (10/10)
My extra info essay was about how I transferred in 10th grade and found myself a year behind other students so slammed myself with online classes despite having no internet access and managed to end up a year ahead of most students in my senior year. Poorly organized imo (8/10)
Teacher Recommendation #1: My CATE teacher and SkillsUSA advisor, also my second mom. She’s not the greatest writer but captured my high school career in its entirety (9/10)
Teacher Recommendation #2: My AP Calc teacher, she doesn’t know me as well but wrote about me as a person and what I’ve worked to overcome personally, made me tear up a lil (9/10)
Counselor Rec: Absolutely no idea
Additional Info/Rec: My lady friends dad wrote this one actually. He’s worked in software engineering for the past 10 years and is a high ranking manager and has gotten to know me really well over the past two years. Easily the best rec I had. (10/10)
Interview: Didn’t take
Art Supplement: Hardcore and extensive game design portfolio, nationally awarded, etc. etc. (11/10)
Other
Date Submitted App: Jan 1st
U.S. State/Territory or Country: South Carolina
School Type: Teensy, Rural, and not great at all. If it wasn’t athletics or FFA, it did not get funding.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket Range: < 30k
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): First gen., Business Owner, Painful family history, overcome many personal issues and built a lasting legacy, a pretty insane transcript that’s a bit all over the place, 38 credits
Reflection
Strengths: Portfolio, Transcript, ECs, Community Work, Passion
Weaknesses: Test Scores and GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: NE is super professional and I’m a business owner and pride myself on professionalism
What would you have done differently?: Git gud and quit procrastinating
Where else did you apply? MIT (Rejected), Becker College (Accepted), Boston University, Cornell, Harvard
General Comments & Advice: Scores, Service, Work. Show a deep passion for something and really exemplify that in everything you do. All my work was drive by my obsession with the entertainment field, video games, and such, that really shined through in my app.
Deferred to Accepted!!
SAT: 2000
ACT: 30
W GPA: 4.3
Does anyone know if there is a groupme for accepted students?
so I was accepted into the N.U. Program. can someone explain how this is different from being accepted as a regular student into Northeastern??
@nspara https://www.northeastern.edu/nuin/
You will spend the fall semester in one of 10 international locations.
Is a waitlist basically a guarantee I’m not getting in anywhere “better” ie my top schools? I’m feeling super stressed out
@zamoso What are your top schools? If you considered NU to be a safety that may have come across in your application.
Not at all, if there <30% acceptance schools, it is completely up in the air. Keep your head high, theres always more to come!
Not at all, if there <30% acceptance schools, it is completely up in the air. Keep your head high, theres always more to come!
@TomSrOfBoston Emory, umich, bc also applied to Carnegie Mellon and tufts but I guess those were a bit of a reach
Hey guys so the kids of class of 2022 here are my stats keep it short and sweet:
GOT IN NUIN
GPA weighted 4.0 unweighted 3.59
class rank: 74/646
Major: Accounting
ACT: 31 superscore
Coursework: AP Calc AB/BC, AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Euro, APUSH, APES, Honors Chem, Honors Bio, Honors English 9,10
EC:
This is where I personally think helped me get in:
Eagle Scout- I described it well but I was a very big part of troop and im too lazy to type the rest
Troop leader and held highest position for half a year
Three Year Varsity Golfer: qualified for CIF (state tournament) junior year
AJGA AND SCPGA golfer play big tournaments
Letter of Rec:
I’m basically the kid who will get like best smile or best sense of humor out of 646 kids so I was one of her favorite students so the letter of rec from teacher is good and I was best friends with school counselor so I am sure letter helped. Love you guys both. Had a letter from my troop leader (navy vet who wrote one of the kindest and most sincere letters ever, which was incredible as well)
Essay:I personally think it was a beautiful letter about leadership and what I did for my troop. (you guys cant see it sorry)
Yeah Im pretty stoked since I am way below average, but my high school is pretty prestigious and known to be hard so I think that was big as well.
Hey just got wait listed at Northeastern U… I heard that usually wait lists are pretty hard to get off, but I’m glad it wasn’t a straight out rejection!
Accepted from TX with 20k/yr merit scholarship
Waitlisted…i give up
Accepted with N.U.in
UW 3.6 gpa
W 4.3 gpa
ACT 32
I was kind of hoping you could opt out of N.U.in but regardless congrats to everyone!
@nspara Im wondering the same thing.
@srichter Could I get the link too?
Also, is the post about only 2,8000/54000+ applicants getting accepted accurate? If so, thats insanely low, thats literally a 5% acceptance rate, which doesn’t sound reasonable at all.
got accepted today!!! 
how do you see scholarship/NUin things?
Is there any way to opt out of N.U.in?? :/// And if you follow through with N.U.in, are you required to study in the city that specializes in your major or can you study in any of the 10 cities??