Northeastern Deferred EA students

[Anonymous]

DD just got this email (well it was sent to parents as well) from Northeastern:

Students who were deferred at Early Action have the opportunity to opt-in for consideration at Early Decision II or Regular Decision, or withdraw their application.

We encourage your family to discuss these options together before your student confirms their decision, as Early Decision II applicants may receive a binding admissions decision to one of our enrollment opportunities. While we consider students' responses from their initial application, all students are considered for all avenues for admission.

So Northeastern has a bunch of enrollment opportunities at other locations around the world- you don't actually go to school at the Northeastern Campus, you attend classes elsewhere. And students may not have selected that as a preference (my DD did not) but if she switches to EDII, she is obligated to attend no matter which program she is offered?

You know what this reminds me of? When you are at a wedding with passed hors d'oeuvres, and no one is taking the stuffed mushrooms, and they won't bring out the rest of the appetizers until the stuffed mushrooms get eaten. There must be less desireable programs that they are trying to fill up, by offering a better chance to be "accepted" to Northeastern, but only if you attend these classes at other locations.

[Anonymous]

My sons best friend is currently doing freshman year in Oakland and absolutely hates it. Seems like a very peculiar way to say you attend Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

I accidentally just started a new thread as I did not know this one existed. I am going to encourage my DD to withdraw her application.

[Anonymous]

I am no fan of what's going on, but no, it is NOT the case that "she is obligated to attend no matter which program she is offered." I thought so too at first but here's the language from https://admissions.northeastern.edu/application-information/early-decision-benefits/

ED applicants will not be bound to an enrollment program if they are admitted into a program that was not their first-choice preference—a non-binding decision would be issued. All applicants are asked for their program preferences in the institution specific section of the application; however, ED applicants will be sent a communication clarifying this policy and with the option to confirm or adjust their preference. The Early Decision Agreement will be applied for Boston enrollment in the instance of applicants who do not indicate a preferred program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sons best friend is currently doing freshman year in Oakland and absolutely hates it. Seems like a very peculiar way to say you attend Northeastern.

Next fall you can be selected to spend all 4 years in Oakland, with the possibility to transfer--but as usual that's not well defined because NEU never defines the actual program until March/April

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I accidentally just started a new thread as I did not know this one existed. I am going to encourage my DD to withdraw her application.

You can go to RD if it's still a place you want to be and hope for Boston. But I'd say that is not very likely. The remaining Boston spots are likely to go to ED2 candidates. Much of RD will got to Non-Boston start or ever offers

Or check, I know with ED1, anything that wasn't Boston was NOT binding. Not sure if that's still the case for ED2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no fan of what's going on, but no, it is NOT the case that "she is obligated to attend no matter which program she is offered." I thought so too at first but here's the language from https://admissions.northeastern.edu/application-information/early-decision-benefits/

ED applicants will not be bound to an enrollment program if they are admitted into a program that was not their first-choice preference—a non-binding decision would be issued. All applicants are asked for their program preferences in the institution specific section of the application; however, ED applicants will be sent a communication clarifying this policy and with the option to confirm or adjust their preference. The Early Decision Agreement will be applied for Boston enrollment in the instance of applicants who do not indicate a preferred program.

Yes, they can’t hold you to ED at a campus your kid didn’t agree to.

That said, they are offering alternative admissions options (Oakland, NUin, Global Studies) to applicants who didn’t indicate an interest and I think that is kind of crappy, but my kid is deferred too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sons best friend is currently doing freshman year in Oakland and absolutely hates it. Seems like a very peculiar way to say you attend Northeastern.

Next fall you can be selected to spend all 4 years in Oakland, with the possibility to transfer--but as usual that's not well defined because NEU never defines the actual program until March/April

That seems so shady.

[Anonymous]

I totally fail to see the appeal of this school.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the Northeastern hype, and this year seems likes a shit show, like why not just go to BU?

[Anonymous]

DP. Tangent. I'm curious about their retention stats. Aren't they super high? That doesn't seem to jive with the over crowding and bait/switch. I wonder about those stats and if they exclude segments from them. I get that it's a good school , it just doesn't seem to make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I totally fail to see the appeal of this school.

+1. It genuinely baffles me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the Northeastern hype, and this year seems likes a shit show, like why not just go to BU?

BU doesn't even have a campus.
It's very competitive too.

[Anonymous]

ED1 and ED2 are only binding for your first choice - Boston cspus.

Its same way for others schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I totally fail to see the appeal of this school.

+1. It genuinely baffles me.

In the case of DC, they are looking for colleges in or near a city, where they get both the academic foundation and the type of work experiences to help them get a job (co-op), with a possibility of merit, with some type of campus and school activities, study abroad common and encouraged, where Greek life doesn’t dominate, and maybe selectively (not sure) has some sway. I don’t think there is a huge list of colleges that meet all of those things so I could see both how this wouldn’t appeal to some people but also attract a lot of students that want those things and can’t find many schools that meet them all.