Again I want to make it clear that i’m very happy for my classmates that were accepted, but i’m not going to hide my frustration either.
@woogzmama, my friend is full pay and v where as I would’ve needed aid.
Look, not to be mean, but maybe this attitude is why you got waitlisted. Maybe your attitude of “It’s only Northeastern, I deserve this acceptance” shone through in your application. Maybe your recommendations weren’t great. You can always express interest and hope they take you off the waitlist.
Good luck.
Well, I hope you get great news from Boston on Saturday and you quickly forget about your Northeastern waitlist. 
@neatoburrito. I understand your points here and agree they are valid. I guess I should just shrug my shoulders and move on and be happy for my friends, but its just hard right now.
Strong advocacy from your college counselor, strong senior year grades including final semester grades, and passionate interest in attending Northeastern (communicated through you, your counselor and the regional Northeastern admissions rep) can convert a waitlist into an acceptance. So the issue for you is to decide whether or not you want to go to Northeastern and are choosing to accept the waitlist status. Last year 179 of the 1525 applicants who accepted the waitlist got in. As these things go, and especially since your stats are on the high side you may have a good shot. You’ll need to nourish a waitlist status with passion – by sending updates, including possibly an extra recommendation, and avoiding any aspect of senioritis.You’ll receive decisions from your other pending colleges in 2 weeks or so, and you can decide then.
@glittervine When I first got my waitlist notification, I was accepting. The frustration came when I went to school today. Plus, my common app essay was about the metaphorical transition from youth to adulthood, and it certainly didn’t have a pretentious tone. I honestly think I was waitlisted for some “meh” reason, in other words, something arbitrary.
It’ll be easier once you have all your decisions. Do you have any acceptances yet? If so, focus on those while waiting for the others.
And the thing is, my senior year grades for second semester were excellent! All a’s, not even an A-, and I beat out several of the admitted students in the same classes. I hate to keep bringing up the admitted students but its my only vantage point.
I was accepted to QU and UNH, both which gave me excellent scholarships. I’ll hear from BU this saturday.
Your essay might have been great grammatically, etc but perhaps it wasn’t too original or didn’t grab your AO on that particular day.
The difference between a class rank of 17 and 22 is insignificant in a holisitic admissions process. One of your classmates was male - admissions can be different for males and females.
I could go on but I think you get the point. It could be for any number of reasons. It isn’t a fair process. Wait until you get into the working world and office politics! 
I am sorry you are upset and I hope the rest of your outcomes are better. Congrats for getting scholarships at QU and UNH. You can get a good education at all and lower educational costs are a real plus!
@doschicos. Thanks, I guess one of the points of college admissions process is to prepare all of us young, hard-working, hopeful teenagers for an unfair world 
That’s great! Love the schools that love you. I totally understand being upset, but please do try to focus on the choices that you have. Make a list of stupid reasons why Northeastern sucks (even if you don’t mean it). Oh, and ice cream, lots of ice cream. It’s all going to be okay. I promise.
Thanks a lot, hopefully the string of admissions ends the discussion of northeastern at my school fairly quickly. @neatoburrito
And hopefully the ice cream places near me open soon…
I recommend a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Fish Food.
I’ll wait till next week…may need to buy four pints depending on my results 
If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.
In 2 weeks, you may hear great news from Yale, or other schools you’ve applied to. Northeastern is just ONE school. Maybe it’s just not meant to be.
Two months ago I was rejected from Cornell, my top school, while a friend of mine was accepted. She is far from me in rank, GPA, etc. Clearly, for me, it simply wasn’t meant to be. Just last weekend, 3 friends of mine who applied to MIT heard back w/ mixed news. 1 was accepted while the other 2 were not. The accepted student had the lowest rank, standardized test scores and admitted to having made mistakes grammatically in his essay. Obviously, w/ Ivies or other relatively top schools admissions is even more unpredictable, but I am a firm believer of my above statement - that everything happens for a reason.
On a brighter note, good luck in the upcoming weeks as you continue to hear back from schools!
@thegrant - No, Northeastern is not need blind.
@Tkat97 To which school did you apply, and was it different from your other classmates? NU admits to the various colleges and they all have differing criteria. That could have been a factor as well.