Northeastern Admittances

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we discuss the elephant in the room?

Was race a factor in selection? And before everyone gets crazy - all of the schools nowadays make it very clear that it is a goal to include more POC and first gen.

Kid was accepted EA from an APS high school. 3.98 GPA/4.50 wGPA, 35 ACT with good, long-term extra-curriculars with leadership. Admitted to the Honors Program with very generous merit aid (Northeastern University Honors Scholarship). Will need to see where else he gets in, but right now NU is looking pretty good.

This was my kid. White, not first generation, not LGBTQ+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That seems wretched. My DC had 9 other apps in when they got accepted ED and withdrew all. It wasn’t easy, actually. They don’t always have a withdraw button to click (and one school still hasn’t acknowledged the withdrawal despite multiple emails sent to the admissions office). One school where they got in rolling doesn’t have a decline button and continues to send mail and stuff trying to persuade acceptance of the offer despite DC having sent multiple emails to admissions to decline. Would turn my stomach if DC got a merit offer that should go to someone else. Maybe they tried to withdraw but weren’t successful?

Thats great about your kid withdrawing their applications. However acc to my kid their friend would like to know where else they would have been accepted. They are also waiting on USC and some other UC schools plus BU and others. The friend applied to 19 schools. Mostly all top 50

The point is that isn't it against the policy and regulation?
It's a violation of the rules.

Yes, it is. And the ED acceptance could be revoked!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moco public
female
1550 SAT
3.95 UW
12 AP/IBs, all taken exams are 5s
Leadership in multiple ECs
National media attention for one EC
Visited, emailed with admin rep 3x
Outstanding recs (according to counselor)
Deferred

Crazy. WTH is NU doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moco public
female
1550 SAT
3.95 UW
12 AP/IBs, all taken exams are 5s
Leadership in multiple ECs
National media attention for one EC
Visited, emailed with admin rep 3x
Outstanding recs (according to counselor)
Deferred

Crazy. WTH is NU doing?

See earlier posting about them possibly not being able to review all EA applications because of how many they received so having to defer almost all...this is likely what happens with Michigan too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moco public
female
1550 SAT
3.95 UW
12 AP/IBs, all taken exams are 5s
Leadership in multiple ECs
National media attention for one EC
Visited, emailed with admin rep 3x
Outstanding recs (according to counselor)
Deferred

Crazy. WTH is NU doing?

Sifting through 50,000 similar applications from kids who applied, correctly anticipating that it would be a good fit. How would you sift through all that?

[Anonymous]

After looking at stellar stats and overall credentials for deferred kids I think they did yield protect. Don't loose hope our kids will get in to great schools. Best if luck to all of the ones waiting this weekend.

From
High stat deferred kid parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moco public
female
1550 SAT
3.95 UW
12 AP/IBs, all taken exams are 5s
Leadership in multiple ECs
National media attention for one EC
Visited, emailed with admin rep 3x
Outstanding recs (according to counselor)
Deferred

Crazy. WTH is NU doing?

See earlier posting about them possibly not being able to review all EA applications because of how many they received so having to defer almost all...this is likely what happens with Michigan too.

Happened with OSU too....decisions were not announced on time and then 3 days late, all that were waiting were deferred.

[Anonymous]

This is crazy but expected since kids apply to 20 schools now. They will do yield protection. Honestly kids should limit applications to less than 10 schools. That way the acceptance rates will start creeping up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After looking at stellar stats and overall credentials for deferred kids I think they did yield protect. Don't loose hope our kids will get in to great schools. Best if luck to all of the ones waiting this weekend.

From
High stat deferred kid parent

The news is that the USN&WR doesn't use yield for ranking anymore(personally didn't verify yet), so it's more like yield management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After looking at stellar stats and overall credentials for deferred kids I think they did yield protect. Don't loose hope our kids will get in to great schools. Best if luck to all of the ones waiting this weekend.

From
High stat deferred kid parent

The news is that the USN&WR doesn't use yield for ranking anymore(personally didn't verify yet), so it's more like yield management.

Perhaps high stat kids are rejected automatically?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After looking at stellar stats and overall credentials for deferred kids I think they did yield protect. Don't loose hope our kids will get in to great schools. Best if luck to all of the ones waiting this weekend.

From
High stat deferred kid parent

The news is that the USN&WR doesn't use yield for ranking anymore(personally didn't verify yet), so it's more like yield management.

Perhaps high stat kids are rejected automatically?

That's clearly not the case, as demonstrated throughout this thread, where some high-stats kids were admitted (e.g. 3.98 GPA/4.5 wGPA with 35 ACT), and some were deferred.

[Anonymous]

NEU is gross. Yield protection, scamming parents -- it's all such a blatantly transparent racket. I seriously don't understand it. It has such an unappealing brand, too. I know multiple people in my orbit who have expressed disdain at NEU and all their shenanigans. At some point, the other shoe is going to drop, no?

And, no, boosters, none of my kids applied to NEU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NEU is gross. Yield protection, scamming parents -- it's all such a blatantly transparent racket. I seriously don't understand it. It has such an unappealing brand, too. I know multiple people in my orbit who have expressed disdain at NEU and all their shenanigans. At some point, the other shoe is going to drop, no?

And, no, boosters, none of my kids applied to NEU.

What a bizarre post. Who calls a school "gross" and parents that they don't know "scamming"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NEU is gross. Yield protection, scamming parents -- it's all such a blatantly transparent racket. I seriously don't understand it. It has such an unappealing brand, too. I know multiple people in my orbit who have expressed disdain at NEU and all their shenanigans. At some point, the other shoe is going to drop, no?

And, no, boosters, none of my kids applied to NEU.

What a bizarre post. Who calls a school "gross" and parents that they don't know "scamming"?

Saying that NEU is scamming parents, not that the parents are scamming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NEU is gross. Yield protection, scamming parents -- it's all such a blatantly transparent racket. I seriously don't understand it. It has such an unappealing brand, too. I know multiple people in my orbit who have expressed disdain at NEU and all their shenanigans. At some point, the other shoe is going to drop, no?

And, no, boosters, none of my kids applied to NEU.

What a bizarre post. Who calls a school "gross" and parents that they don't know "scamming"?

Someone whose kid got rejected and then pretends like they didn't.