Northeastern - worst admissions procedures on the planet

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Also forgot to mention how NEU reiterated in this email how they might admit your kid to their Oakland and London campuses when they didn't even apply to those. Just so sketchy it's funny at this point.

Yes. College Confidential is lit up with people asking questions about this. One Boston-area person wants to know why they have to fly to California to attend a school with a campus in Boston.

Well, because otherwise their kid would be rejected.

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The people hose kids have gotten in to the Boston campus are pretty happy. I wouldn’t have wanted my son to go to Oakland either but he and I absolutely knew admission to Boston was tough and a (to us undesirable) alternate acceptance was possible despite excellent record. The question is, why didn’t you?

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like most schools.

? No, it really doesn't. (My kids haven't applied to Northeastern so this isn't personal to me.)

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Over 97,000 applications, our daughter was one who applied ED and was accepted at the Boston campus. And, NEU sent out very clear instructions for students to check off their choices early on (only attend Boston, attend only 1st semester abroad then Boston, attend Oakland, etc), and for each the choices were essentially primary choice, maybe choice, or no.

Besides wouldn't being accepted to a location that wasn't a primary choice be better than being outright rejected?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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It is very clear when you apply what the parameters are. Period.

I call TROLL post. It is obvious that many of the PPs do not have all the facts, they are just piecing together information.

For actual applicants, none of this information is a surprise, and you know what information is where.

I am not providing information for the haters. NP here.

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Anonymous wrote:The people hose kids have gotten in to the Boston campus are pretty happy. I wouldn’t have wanted my son to go to Oakland either but he and I absolutely knew admission to Boston was tough and a (to us undesirable) alternate acceptance was possible despite excellent record. The question is, why didn’t you?

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Agree. Plus, I know top stat students who were not admitted to Northeastern, at all. This thread reeks of sour grapes, like most of the Northeastern posts (some other schools, too).

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Anonymous wrote:My kid applied EA and was deferred. The email just sent doesn’t bother me at all. My son also applied to rolling admission schools that do not give a firm date for decisions. At least they are communicating.

Also note to Juniors: Northeastern is very generous with application Fee waivers. They seem to send them out close to the November 1 deadline. That happened both for my 2020 grad and my current senior.

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OP seems very uninformed - almost like they did not know what they were doing, or have any information from a school they supposedly applied to?

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Anonymous wrote:You and your child sound like entitled snowflakes, tbh. I hope you are able to overcome this traumatic spur grapes experience!

Can we please try another word. And OP is justified. I know of no other university pulling this. And yes Northeastern is doing all of this (plus waiving app fees) to get the applications to roll in to improve their stats for USNWR. They are probably playing with yield by rolling these out. those that accept boost the yield rates, no matter what campus they start on. I don't like it and I don't have a horse in this race.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Penn State do something similar with their summer program and regional campuses? Where’s the outrage there?

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Many other schools communicate far less. OP are you not familiar with the admissions process in the U.S.?

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Anonymous wrote:You and your child sound like entitled snowflakes, tbh. I hope you are able to overcome this traumatic spur grapes experience!

Can we please try another word. And OP is justified. I know of no other university pulling this. And yes Northeastern is doing all of this (plus waiving app fees) to get the applications to roll in to improve their stats for USNWR. They are probably playing with yield by rolling these out. those that accept boost the yield rates, no matter what campus they start on. I don't like it and I don't have a horse in this race.

Northeastern is very transparent in their application process. You would know this, if you applied.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the problem with this.

P.S. DD going to Northeastern this fall for engineering.

Your DD was admitted to their Engineering school? Wow, I have never known anyone admitted to their Engineering school - very competitive - well done! She must be very excited!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You and your child sound like entitled snowflakes, tbh. I hope you are able to overcome this traumatic spur grapes experience!

Can we please try another word. And OP is justified. I know of no other university pulling this. And yes Northeastern is doing all of this (plus waiving app fees) to get the applications to roll in to improve their stats for USNWR. They are probably playing with yield by rolling these out. those that accept boost the yield rates, no matter what campus they start on. I don't like it and I don't have a horse in this race.

Northeastern is very transparent in their application process. You would know this, if you applied.

I think you could be correct. But it would help to see the wording from the common app. Could you please provide that if it’s accessible to you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You and your child sound like entitled snowflakes, tbh. I hope you are able to overcome this traumatic spur grapes experience!

Can we please try another word. And OP is justified. I know of no other university pulling this. And yes Northeastern is doing all of this (plus waiving app fees) to get the applications to roll in to improve their stats for USNWR. They are probably playing with yield by rolling these out. those that accept boost the yield rates, no matter what campus they start on. I don't like it and I don't have a horse in this race.

Northeastern is very transparent in their application process. You would know this, if you applied.

I think you could be correct. But it would help to see the wording from the common app. Could you please provide that if it’s accessible to you?

No, my DC did their own applications, so it is not available to me, only to my DC, the student. Why would a parent have access? I did not fill out my DC applications? Was I supposed to?

However, my DC did read the basic admission information for each school where they applied. It is spelled out very clearly. It is obvious that some parents are taking certain (third party) website information, and trying to relay their feigned "frustration", without having pertinent information, which shows that they are trolling. What you need to do is look at your DC's application. I am not spelling things out for the Northeastern trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Also forgot to mention how NEU reiterated in this email how they might admit your kid to their Oakland and London campuses when they didn't even apply to those. Just so sketchy it's funny at this point.

My kid was deferred EA. I have no true complaint about the decision roll out, but I'm not a fan of them putting kids into London and Oakland when that interest wasn't indicated on their application.

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Anonymous wrote:You and your child sound like entitled snowflakes, tbh. I hope you are able to overcome this traumatic spur grapes experience!

Can we please try another word. And OP is justified. I know of no other university pulling this. And yes Northeastern is doing all of this (plus waiving app fees) to get the applications to roll in to improve their stats for USNWR. They are probably playing with yield by rolling these out. those that accept boost the yield rates, no matter what campus they start on. I don't like it and I don't have a horse in this race.

Northeastern is very transparent in their application process. You would know this, if you applied.

I think you could be correct. But it would help to see the wording from the common app. Could you please provide that if it’s accessible to you?

No, my DC did their own applications, so it is not available to me, only to my DC, the student. Why would a parent have access? I did not fill out my DC applications? Was I supposed to?

However, my DC did read the basic admission information for each school where they applied. It is spelled out very clearly. It is obvious that some parents are taking certain (third party) website information, and trying to relay their feigned "frustration", without having pertinent information, which shows that they are trolling. What you need to do is look at your DC's application. I am not spelling things out for the Northeastern trolls.

My child pulled up the application as submitted. As stated previously, there is only a record of responses, not the questions asked and their context. I think you would need to be looking at an in-process application to see the questions. It would be helpful to future applicants, and clarifying to current applicants, to know what those questions are.