Official Northeastern University Early Action Decision Thread, Class of 2016

<p>SAT I (breakdown): R:590 W:590 M:630
ACT: N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 96.5/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (school doesn’t give out class rank. but ik i’m top 5)
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc AB
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: British Lit, Honors A&P, AP Calc AB, Honors Spanish 4, Physics, Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Teacher awards for top average in many classes, Susan B. Anthony Award, book award w/ scholarship.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): volleyball (captain), basketball, lacrosse. Relay for Life (captain, committee member), Student Government (President).
Job/Work Experience: many jobs; waitress, ice cream girl, oboe teacher, referee, pharmacy technician (now).
Volunteer/Community service: LOTS of random community service, library, museum… etc.
Summer Activities: same as volunteer/work.
Essays: Good; wrote about a struggle I had end of my junior year.
Teacher Recommendation: Very Good; from my HAlg2/HpreCalc teacher. heart felt and meaningful. showed the person I truly am.
Counselor Rec: didn’t read it, but i’m sure it was good.
Additional Rec: didn’t real it, but from the principal of my school.
Interview: N/A
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: WHITE
Gender: FEMALE
Income Bracket: 200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): have worked in field I want to go into.
Reflection:
Strengths: ECs, GPA
Weaknesses: SAT for sureee, also PharmD program is competitive.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: deferred because of SATs and ethnicity.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted w/ scholarships to WNEU, UNE, and URI. Accepted w/out scholarship UConn. Deferred: Northeastern.
General Comments: NEU is my first choice and knew it would be difficult to get into. Guess I’ll have to wait until April to see the final decision.</p>

<p>Decision: accepted EA
SAT: 800(w), 790(r), 690(m)
GPA(uw): 3.85
GPA:(w): 4.52
APs: Have taken four, got 5s on each
ECs: a lot of them…
Recs were good, (aren’t they all??), essays were fine, I’ve done some community service…</p>

<p>I applied to the music industry major
Got the Dean’s scholarship</p>

<p>I know this is late… I just discovered College Confidential. It’s awesome! I wish I knew about it a few months ago…</p>

<p>Accepted w/ full tuition to 6 year pharmacy program. </p>

<p>Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown): 2060 (710M, 620CR, 730W - 8E)
•ACT: N/A
•SAT II: Math 2C- 790 , Bio-E 750
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67ish with a downward trend
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
•AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio 5, Stats 4, APES,3
•IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: Ame. Govt/Econ, AP World Hist, Digital Imaging, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics B, AP English Lit.
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Not much - NMF? AP Scholar?
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Ballet, Piano, Varsity Track, Co-founder of Abacus Club
•Job/Work Experience: Office Assistant at a learning center, AP Biology tutor, Spanish 1/2 Tutor
•Volunteer/Community service: FCSN Abacus(teaching mentally challenged abacus).
•Summer Activities: Stanford Research Internship, UCSF research internship
•Essays: Decent - Good. Wrote about my abacus community service
•Teacher Recommendation: Don’t know them much. Don’t talk to them.
•Counselor Rec: She deosn’t even know me…
•Additional Rec: N/A
•Interview: N/A
Other
•State (if domestic applicant): CA
•Country (if international applicant): USA
•School Type: Public
•Ethnicity: East Asian
•Gender: F
•Income Bracket: 100k-200k
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing.
[ b]Reflection**
•Strengths: ECs?
•Weaknesses: GPA/SAT
•Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Idk… met their average scores?.
•Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: UMich- Deferred, UCSD & UCD Waitlisted. SJSU, UCSC, UCSB accepted. JHU rejected.
General Comments: Sorry that this is late but hopefully it’ll be helpful.</p>

<p>Accepted EA into College of Science! I finally decided to get an account!</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1960
ACT: 30
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Lang (3), AP Chem (3), AP Psych (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Semi-Micro Qualitative Analysis and Organic Chemistry, Senior Literature, AP Biology, AP French 5, AP Calculus, AP Economics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (captain my senior year), Studenct Countil Members (chairman of many committees), NHS Member, Piano Lessons, Volunteering
Job/Work Experience: Assistant Tennis Instructor
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at a summer camp for gifted children
Summer Activities: Working and Volunteering
Essays: My common app essay was great, in my opinion.
Teacher Recommendation: Both were great
Counselor Rec: I think it was pretty good.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: I met with my admissions counselor when he came to my city.</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): MO
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket: around 50,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I really liked the school and made sure to show my interest. I also made sure to stay in contact with my admissions counselor.</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Essays
Weaknesses: My test scores could be better
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think it was my level of interest in the school, the relationship I had with my admissions counselor, and the fact that probably not many kids from MO apply to Northeastern.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at SLU, DePaul, Loyola Chicago, and University of Miami; Waitlisted at CWRU and BU; Rejected at Rice; Waiting to hear from Barnard, University of Richmond, Emory, and Tulane</p>