***Official Northeastern University Class of 2021 Regular Decision Applicants Results ONLY***

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ACCEPTED! (NUin)

Well, i’m not sure why I heard back this early (I heard back like Feb 17), but I was accepted and got into the Nu IN program. I guess this just goes to show you to not always rely on the stats, lol. I’m also posting this for future people who were exchange students, because I was really worried about if I’d get in.

SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 1310, M:610 CR:700
SAT II (subject, score): US History 560 Biology 530
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Weighted GPA: 4.35
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 15%
AP (place score in parentheses): none
IB (place score in parentheses): none
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, Ap Lit, Ap Bio, CP Calc, Human Consciousness, Wind Ensemble
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 12
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): Girl Scout Gold Award, High Honor Roll (9,10)

[ b]Subjective:**

Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Track and Field (9,10,12), Fencing (9,10,12), Marching Band (9,10,12 (Student leader), French Club (9,10,12) , Environment Club (9,10,12), Girl Scouts (9,10,11,12) (all Awards)
Job/Work Experience: Summer Catering Service (11-12), Hostess (10)
Volunteer/Community Service: Like I said, Girl Scouts!
Summer Experience: Won Full Scholarship to spend 5 weeks in France through YFU (9-10)

I was an exchange student in Turkey for my Junior year through Rotary Youth Exchange. I lived there for 11 months, went to school and lived with Turkish people. This means I don’t have a Junior year transcript, NU had a problem with this at first, but once I sent a letter explaining it got all cleared up. As a result of this, I am also fluent in Turkish!

[ b]Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):**

Essays: Write about my love for travel and seeing the world, focusing slightly on my two experiences. I thought it was really good and showed a lot of my personality. (9/10)

Teacher Recommendation #1 :Didn’t get to see this one. But it was by my 10 grade Chem teacher who liked me because I worked hard in her class even though I hated Chem.
Counselor Rec: Most likely really good. We were really close because we had to work together a lot with me being away. She also nominated me for a couple of in school things, so.
Additional Info/Rec:
One was from the teacher that I partnered with on my Gold Award explaining what I did and how it effected her students (I wrote a blog about my experience and helped to educate Middle Scholars about Islam and Turkish Culture). My second one was from my Rotary councilor just explaining the program I did and why I don’t have full transcripts. He also was very passionate about how much he liked me and how good my experience was.

[ b]Other**

Date Submitted App: December 20
U.S. State/Territory or Country: NJ
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket Range:
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):

[ b]Reflection**

Strengths: My travel definitely, essays, GPA
Weaknesses:Test Scores!
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I was definitely accepted because of my love for travel, and NU is a school that respects that.
What would you have done differently?: Tried to have gotten a better SAT score, but I only got to take it once so…
Where else did you apply?
Got rejected from BU and Northwestern, waiting to hear back from AU, U Mich and Georgetown

[ b]Other Factors: **
I wrote a long a probably too poetic extra information section about my lack of leadership positions and low tests scores. basically, since I was away my Junior year, I had no opportunity to get leadership positions and was only able to take the SAT twice with limited prep.

[ b]General Comments & Advice:**
Don’t worry about scores and scatter charts and stuff. NU is a really good university that holistically reviews your app.

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Lol kinda salty I got denied when all of my stats match up but whatever

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I had to chuckle to myself when my daughter showed me her acceptance letter and financial aid package. You can pay $67.6k to join us at NE. No merit aid in year 1 and we will give a little stipend in year 2,3, and 4.

Thanks but no thanks.

Kelley > than D’Amore-McKim in US News, Poets & Quants and Bloomberg rankings and 1/2 the cost.

No brainer…

All the best to each and everyone who was accepted and chasing their dream !!

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Tried to ask for more money. I failed.
“You will have to evaluate how much you will be able to cover as we pride ourselves and giving you the best available award to assist you with making your enrollment decision.” They responded with this, “pride ourselves… best available award” rip

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Sorry, @ethanwatson4 . What’s Plan B?

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Does anyone know what the student life is like at Northeastern? I have heard that there is not a lot of student body unity because of part of the school always being away at co-op. I have always imagined supporting my college’s football team but obviously that wont happen here, does hockey make up for this?

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@patsfan10 There are a couple of recent threads on social life here on CC.

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@patsfan10 Hockey is decent, but Northeastern school spirit doesn’t care much for sports really. There’s plenty of unity and even school sprit, but it’s behind the philosophy of the school with co-op and practicality, not the traditional ways. Northeastern students are mostly city lovers, big fans of co-op and usually very involved in something, which can range from professional aspects, clubs, their major’s academic community, outdoor activities (NUHOC, the outdoors club, is the biggest club every year) or some other big activity in the area. A lot of students are also usually relatively mature even compared to many colleges I’ve found. It’s a very different college experience, which is great for some and not what others are looking for.

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No back up plan, either the college in my small town or i might try to join the workforce and apprentice or something :frowning:

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Well, @ethanwatson4 , if you decide to go the workforce route, you could ask NU for a deferral and keep that option open for a year, and at the same time apply to some of the true financial safeties that give full rides to high-stat students. If you got into NU you would probably qualify for those scholarships, and some of those programs (like Alabama, for example) are really building up critical mass of high-achieving kids in their honors programs. Good luck. It stinks when the FAFSA does not reflect your reality.

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Keep politely persisting. This is the rubber meets the road time for schools and families. I’ve been having the money talk with my S for the last three years saying the last cut is $$$. We reached out to another school before Northeastern to practice our approach. We were flat out told “you can send a letter in as your appeal but you should be aware that we have no money for appeals.”. Turns out I’m close to one of the deans at that school…I texted him last night and his eloquent response was “hogwash”. The key is to be polite and have a realistic number in mind…and be ready to commit if they can get close to that number. Doesn’t always work but, in my humble opinion, worth the try.

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I follow these threads regularly and can’t remember anybody getting more merit aid when asking NEU to reconsider. Not sure about getting better financial aid without changed circumstances or the school not having all the correct information.

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I personally know a family with a current NEU student who did get more merit aid. However, they had a specific better offer from a competitor school to present as leverage, and that still didn’t work on the first pass. They had to meet with somebody in his specific college within NU, not just in Admissions, to get the job done.

I have yet to hear of a need-based aid negotiation being successful, though. Not to say that my connections are so extensive that my not having heard of it proves anything… but from the slice of experiences that I’ve seen, it sounds as if NU Financial Aid simply does not open the Pandora’s box of negotiation. They have a formula, and if that formula is a poor fit for the individual, they’re sorry to hear that but the offer is final.

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@aquapt

That is the only way to be fair. Otherwise most everyone would be calling demanding more.

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@TomSrOfBoston , right - that was my subtext in calling it a Pandora’s box. I totally understand that they just can’t go there.

What I think is a bridge too far is when a student gets both need-based aid and merit aid, and they not only don’t stack, but they take the merit amount off of grant aid while leaving the loan amount the same. Everything else, I accept as a matter of needing to have a policy and stick to it. But in my opinion, merit aid should replace loans first. If the student deserved that merit aid, they deserve to at least have it reduce their debt.

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"I accept as a matter of needing to have a policy and stick to it. But in my opinion, merit aid should replace loans first. "

Totally agree with this

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Has anyone received anything official in the mail since RD came out?

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**Decision: Accepted **

Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 30 (E: 34, M: 28, R: 34, S: 22)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88
Weighted GPA: Can’t remember but it was a bit higher than a 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% (don’t know exact)
AP (place score in parentheses): World History (3)
IB (place score in parentheses): IB Spanish SL (5)
Senior Year Course Load: IB TOK, IB English HL, IB History HL, IB Computer Science, AP Calculus AB, IB Chemistry SL, Gym
Number of other applicants in your school: 0
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): 2nd in nation for a design competition, NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Honorable Mention and Affiliate Winner
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): academic honor roll (three years, so far so good for senior year)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Job/Work Experience: worked for my school for a couple of weeks in the summer, run my own web shops
Volunteer/Community Service: I’ve helped plan statewide leadership conferences for an organization I’m apart of for three years and school events.
Summer Experience: A computer science summer camp and some leadership programs

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: I chose the common app essay about reflecting on failure and wrote about how I lost a state-level election for an organization I’m in, the lessons I learned, and how I used them to improve both in terms of leadership and in being a better person. Personally, I was really proud of my essay because it was a really personal topic and I know I learned a lot from it. Plus, my recommenders all mentioned how I lost but stuck with it to eventually win as a junior so I think it tied together well.

Teacher Recommendation #1: Computer Science teacher, advisor for an organization I’m in. I haven’t read his but he knows me and how I’ve grown throughout high school probably the best.
Teacher Recommendation #2: IB extended essay advisor, history teacher, and advisor for a mentorship program I’m apart of and hold a leadership position in. I don’t know what constitutes a good recommendation but I was really touched by what he wrote so I think that’s a good sign.
Counselor Rec: I didn’t even know they submitted a recommendation?
Art Supplement: I applied for design but I’m self-taught so I was really nervous but I think my resume and accomplishments in design made up for a lacking portfolio since I mentioned I learned on my own. I didn’t realize there was an essay requirement with the slideroom submission so I had to write something real quick. But I got into the Design BFA so I guess it worked!

Other
Date Submitted App: Oct. 31 (initially deferred from early action)
U.S. State/Territory or Country: TX
School Type: Public magnet
Ethnicity: white, Asian
Gender: Female

Reflection
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Academically, I think I’m weaker than a lot of applicants, which is why I think was initially deferred. For regular decision: I keep hearing that with the co-op program and experimental learning, Northeastern is really great if you already know the general area you want to go into. For me, the ability to gain professional experience and exposure as soon as possible is one of the big reasons I applied, and I think that showed in my interests. I’m crazy about design and despite being from a small school with a practically non-existent art program, I’ve worked really hard to create my own opportunities. Through my awards, leadership positions, the reflection in my CommonApp essay, and personal initiatives both for myself and the community, I think it was clear that I know the area I want to head as a professional, and that I am willing to really push myself to get there.

What would you have done differently?: Figured out was required ahead of time! That slideroom essay caught me off guard and had me really worried.
Where else did you apply? Brown, Carnegie Mellon, UT San Antonio, and UT Austin (hook 'em!)

General Comments & Advice: Show what you’re passionate about. If you’re unsure of where you want to go professionally, talk about what you enjoy and how you invest into that.

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I succeeded at appealing for a little more need-based aid my first year, but the circumstances were rather extenuating. First was that my mom (as a pastor) had to pay both halves of social security, etc. which meant income was lower than FAFSA/CSS profile suggested. But most significantly, my mom was the primary breadwinner in the family, and since FAFSA was filed with the previous year’s taxes, she had gone on disability for terminal cancer. Yet even that resulted in a very small budge on the financial front.

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Has anyone received their acceptance letters in the mail yet??