Northeastern - worst admissions procedures on the planet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like most schools.

None of the schools DS applied to have pulled this. It's only the ones desperate to play ranking games that do.

[Anonymous]

This is the text of the letter, below. I have to believe the vast majority of kids visit the Boston campus, without really processing there's a good chance they'll be routed to another campus they've never heard of or seen in person before--for at least a year, if not longer. Many of these campuses are abroad: it's not like they can take a road trip and check them out. I think if you go to London or Oakland you may only consider transferring to Boston after one OR TWO years. Yikes. Maybe a generous reading is that Northeastern is growing too fast: too many kids in Boston and too many campus acquisitions scattered all over the world. A less charitable reading suggests it might be worth it for NEU to scramble their incoming applicants to skew their yield numbers, the grades and scores of incoming students, and other data points.... I also wonder about the rolling admissions over the next 2.5 weeks. Are they waiting to see how many kids reject offers to secondary campuses, then adjusting their acceptances as they go down the list of kids awaiting decisions? I would expect them to make offers in the reverse order of campus desirability, so they can hedge their bets. I'm sure I can't even fathom the level of machinations and manipulations...It's eye opening. And something potential future applicants should know more about.

Dear Students and Families,
Thank you for your application to Northeastern University. We would like to share an important update with you ahead of our upcoming Regular Decision release. Please read this message thoroughly.

Decision Release
Decisions for all applicants who applied or were deferred to Regular Decision will be released in waves over the coming weeks. All applicants will be notified of their admission decision via email by April 1.

Admissions decisions for Regular Decision applicants include:

Admission to Northeastern University Boston

Admission to Northeastern University Oakland

Admission to Northeastern University London

Admission to The N.U.in Program (this includes any of the following: N.U.in Czech Republic – University of New York in Prague, N.U.in France – The American University of Paris, N.U.in Germany – CIEE Berlin, N.U.in Greece – American College of Thessaloniki, N.U.in Ireland – University College Dublin, N.U.in Italy: Florence – Florence University of the Arts, N.U.in Italy: Rome – John Cabot University, N.U.in Northern Ireland – Queens University Belfast, N.U.in Portugal – CIEE Lisbon, N.U.in Scotland – University of Glasgow, N.U.in Spain – Saint Louis University Madrid)

Admission to Global Scholars

Admission through one of our alternate pathway programs

NU Immerse (for non-native English speakers)

Foundation Year (for Boston residents)

Waitlist

Deny

Enrollment Opportunities
As you are aware, from submitting your application, students join the Northeastern community through a variety of enrollment pathways. During the application process, you were asked to indicate your preference for an enrollment program. While preferences are considered in the application review, applicants are reviewed for all available enrollment pathways and may receive an admission decision that does not match their indicated preference.
Each application was carefully reviewed with the goal of building a diverse community with intellectually motivated and engaged students. Please remember our decisions reflect the full applicant pool and our enrollment goals; they are not a reflection of individual applicants' accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That letter is packed with total BS. And I don’t have a horse in this race.

[Anonymous]

I tried to check the language on the NE common app--it's too late for that now--I wish I could remember whether it was this obvious on the common app that NE may offer you a place at a campus not even listed anywhere on the application... I'm sure it's in the fine print on the NE web site, but I think it might be downplayed on the actual application.

[Anonymous]

Also, remember that thanks to their games, they received almost 100K applications. If inflated rankings and dubious admissions practices are for you, be sure to have your kid apply here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from that school?

+1

It's just a sign of how they will treat your kid should they get in an choose to attend

[Anonymous]

Wait, you can apply to the Boston campus and end up in Belfast?!

[Anonymous]

Yep, that is precisely what concerns me.

[Anonymous]

Not Belfast--the treatment of students generally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, you can apply to the Boston campus and end up in Belfast?!

Some of the programs are a semester or year abroad. Others appear to be all 4 years at random campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the text of the letter, below. I have to believe the vast majority of kids visit the Boston campus, without really processing there's a good chance they'll be routed to another campus they've never heard of or seen in person before--for at least a year, if not longer. Many of these campuses are abroad: it's not like they can take a road trip and check them out. I think if you go to London or Oakland you may only consider transferring to Boston after one OR TWO years. Yikes. Maybe a generous reading is that Northeastern is growing too fast: too many kids in Boston and too many campus acquisitions scattered all over the world. A less charitable reading suggests it might be worth it for NEU to scramble their incoming applicants to skew their yield numbers, the grades and scores of incoming students, and other data points.... I also wonder about the rolling admissions over the next 2.5 weeks. Are they waiting to see how many kids reject offers to secondary campuses, then adjusting their acceptances as they go down the list of kids awaiting decisions? I would expect them to make offers in the reverse order of campus desirability, so they can hedge their bets. I'm sure I can't even fathom the level of machinations and manipulations...It's eye opening. And something potential future applicants should know more about.

Dear Students and Families,
Thank you for your application to Northeastern University. We would like to share an important update with you ahead of our upcoming Regular Decision release. Please read this message thoroughly.

Decision Release
Decisions for all applicants who applied or were deferred to Regular Decision will be released in waves over the coming weeks. All applicants will be notified of their admission decision via email by April 1.

Admissions decisions for Regular Decision applicants include:

Admission to Northeastern University Boston

Admission to Northeastern University Oakland

Admission to Northeastern University London

Admission to The N.U.in Program (this includes any of the following: N.U.in Czech Republic – University of New York in Prague, N.U.in France – The American University of Paris, N.U.in Germany – CIEE Berlin, N.U.in Greece – American College of Thessaloniki, N.U.in Ireland – University College Dublin, N.U.in Italy: Florence – Florence University of the Arts, N.U.in Italy: Rome – John Cabot University, N.U.in Northern Ireland – Queens University Belfast, N.U.in Portugal – CIEE Lisbon, N.U.in Scotland – University of Glasgow, N.U.in Spain – Saint Louis University Madrid)

Admission to Global Scholars

Admission through one of our alternate pathway programs

NU Immerse (for non-native English speakers)

Foundation Year (for Boston residents)

Waitlist

Deny

Enrollment Opportunities
As you are aware, from submitting your application, students join the Northeastern community through a variety of enrollment pathways. During the application process, you were asked to indicate your preference for an enrollment program. While preferences are considered in the application review, applicants are reviewed for all available enrollment pathways and may receive an admission decision that does not match their indicated preference.
Each application was carefully reviewed with the goal of building a diverse community with intellectually motivated and engaged students. Please remember our decisions reflect the full applicant pool and our enrollment goals; they are not a reflection of individual applicants' accomplishments.

That's because your student is just a number to them. State you only want Boston campus, yet they will offer you admission to NUin or Global scholars or NU Oakland 4 year, etc. To me it seems they don't really care about what your kid states/wants and to me that treatment/attitude will continue through your time with NEU if you choose to accept. IMO they would be better situated to ONLY offer non-Boston admission to people who checked the box "open to non-boston programs". They might get more students that way.

[Anonymous]

Thank God Northeastern-DC will only be a graduate school. https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/08/09/arlington-campus-launch/

[Anonymous]

I have no idea what the big issue is here. If you apply to Boston campus and they accept you for their abroad campus, just don't accept. It's not like you accepted admission thinking Boston and then they switched on you. What's the problem? My dc applied and did not mark that he was interested in other campus other than Boston. But he was accepted to NUin which is first semester abroad (only 1 semester, not over a year like pp said). He is actually thankful that he got that offer rather than a rejection. Either way, he's not going to take it because the school is too expensive for us, but this is really not something to get all worked up over. There really are other things in life that are more egregious that you may want to channel your energy into, op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the text of the letter, below. I have to believe the vast majority of kids visit the Boston campus, without really processing there's a good chance they'll be routed to another campus they've never heard of or seen in person before--for at least a year, if not longer. Many of these campuses are abroad: it's not like they can take a road trip and check them out. I think if you go to London or Oakland you may only consider transferring to Boston after one OR TWO years. Yikes. Maybe a generous reading is that Northeastern is growing too fast: too many kids in Boston and too many campus acquisitions scattered all over the world. A less charitable reading suggests it might be worth it for NEU to scramble their incoming applicants to skew their yield numbers, the grades and scores of incoming students, and other data points.... I also wonder about the rolling admissions over the next 2.5 weeks. Are they waiting to see how many kids reject offers to secondary campuses, then adjusting their acceptances as they go down the list of kids awaiting decisions? I would expect them to make offers in the reverse order of campus desirability, so they can hedge their bets. I'm sure I can't even fathom the level of machinations and manipulations...It's eye opening. And something potential future applicants should know more about.

Dear Students and Families,
Thank you for your application to Northeastern University. We would like to share an important update with you ahead of our upcoming Regular Decision release. Please read this message thoroughly.

Decision Release
Decisions for all applicants who applied or were deferred to Regular Decision will be released in waves over the coming weeks. All applicants will be notified of their admission decision via email by April 1.

Admissions decisions for Regular Decision applicants include:

Admission to Northeastern University Boston

Admission to Northeastern University Oakland

Admission to Northeastern University London

Admission to The N.U.in Program (this includes any of the following: N.U.in Czech Republic – University of New York in Prague, N.U.in France – The American University of Paris, N.U.in Germany – CIEE Berlin, N.U.in Greece – American College of Thessaloniki, N.U.in Ireland – University College Dublin, N.U.in Italy: Florence – Florence University of the Arts, N.U.in Italy: Rome – John Cabot University, N.U.in Northern Ireland – Queens University Belfast, N.U.in Portugal – CIEE Lisbon, N.U.in Scotland – University of Glasgow, N.U.in Spain – Saint Louis University Madrid)

Admission to Global Scholars

Admission through one of our alternate pathway programs

NU Immerse (for non-native English speakers)

Foundation Year (for Boston residents)

Waitlist

Deny

Enrollment Opportunities
As you are aware, from submitting your application, students join the Northeastern community through a variety of enrollment pathways. During the application process, you were asked to indicate your preference for an enrollment program. While preferences are considered in the application review, applicants are reviewed for all available enrollment pathways and may receive an admission decision that does not match their indicated preference.
Each application was carefully reviewed with the goal of building a diverse community with intellectually motivated and engaged students. Please remember our decisions reflect the full applicant pool and our enrollment goals; they are not a reflection of individual applicants' accomplishments.

Op, you have access to your child's email to be copying & pasting your kid's emails? You clearly have way too much time to be micro-managing your kid's college process like this. It's obviously why you are so emotional about pretty much a notice from school that doesn't really even say anything that important. It's just a notice about when decisions will roll out. It's not a denial letter.

[Anonymous]

Everyone, I know we are all on edge because final decision are due to come out in the next two weeks for all the schools, but take a deep breath and CALM DOWN!