March rejections - come in here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None yet. Waitlisted at Tulane and NEU. Will be back in 2 days LOL.

Did you just hear from NEU today?

Yes, decisions came out at 7PM.

[marmaduke1224]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None yet. Waitlisted at Tulane and NEU. Will be back in 2 days LOL.

Yourself lucky for having avoided two of the most overrated expensive schools in the country

100%!

We just got a rejection from NEU. It was a stretch, so not surprised. On to the next

[Anonymous]

Expecting rejections from Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams and Tufts.

[Anonymous]

marmaduke1224 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got “guaranteed transfer” from NEU. Ughh.

Didn't I read that the "guaranteed transfer" is part of some strategy to boost their selectivity numbers?

No idea. Definitely a strategy to boost avg gpa.

[Anonymous]

marmaduke1224 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None yet. Waitlisted at Tulane and NEU. Will be back in 2 days LOL.

Yourself lucky for having avoided two of the most overrated expensive schools in the country

100%!

We just got a rejection from NEU. It was a stretch, so not surprised. On to the next

NEU is a stretch for all in regular decision round.

[Anonymous]

Waiting for the rejection from Michigan…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep - I'll be here when Mellon Comes out this Friday.

Carnegie Mellon - man, I can't even say it!

It is the Loch Ness monster of schools.

[Anonymous]

Hang in there, everyone. Hoping you all have good options. Or, at least Tim Gunn "make it work" options!

[Anonymous]

Kid was waitlisted at NEU, but I'd been expecting it to be their first rejection. The rejections will come soon enough, as other reach school decisions trickle out this week and next.

I hope every kid has gotten into at least one school they are proud of and excited about! (You can only attend one, anyway, we tell our kid.)

[Anonymous]

Waiting on rejections from Chicago and MIT.

[Anonymous]

DC has had a good run of acceptances but RD is where that ends, I'm certain. Will share here in the next couple of weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

marmaduke1224 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got “guaranteed transfer” from NEU. Ughh.

Didn't I read that the "guaranteed transfer" is part of some strategy to boost their selectivity numbers?

No idea. Definitely a strategy to boost avg gpa.

Honestly I think it's more of a strategy to make more money. Despite all the hype about NEU, their Forbes financial rating is a 3.52, which is an A-, but only 2 hundredths of a point from a B+. A ton of small liberal arts colleges many on here have never heard of have higher financial ranks. Their marketing grew them fast in an expensive area beyond their means and are needing as many tuition dollars as they can to actually build capacity--hence the distributed locations, guaranteed transfers etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waiting on rejections from Chicago and MIT.

Happy pi day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got “guaranteed transfer” from NEU. Ughh.

So consider yourself lucky and move on to your next best choice (assuming you got "global scholars" or whatever they are currently calling it---go to London/Oakland for a semester each then return to Boston)

[Anonymous]

marmaduke1224 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got “guaranteed transfer” from NEU. Ughh.

Didn't I read that the "guaranteed transfer" is part of some strategy to boost their selectivity numbers?

When there are 96K+ applicants, and they accept less than 8-9K total (including NUIN/Global Scholars) there is not much difference between Boston (included numbers) and the others. Majority of NUIn/Global Scholars are Rich/Fully pay kids. But their stats are very similar to all accepted.