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.

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.

That is not what happened. Even if it were to ever happen (highly doubtful), that student does not need to accept.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1

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?

NP. Ok, we can see you've responded multiple times here. I want to make sure others see that so as not to drown out OP's legit concerns. I'd be annoyed if my kid got bait and switch.

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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.

Why wouldn't your DC know what their answer would have been?

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What type of fragile child do you have that they are so affected by an acceptance they don’t care for? It’s not binding ( unless they put it as their first choice for Ed.) decline and try to move on ffs.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1

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?

NP. Ok, we can see you've responded multiple times here. I want to make sure others see that so as not to drown out OP's legit concerns. I'd be annoyed if my kid got bait and switch.

My question was why would someone apply if they had not read the application?

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Anonymous wrote:What type of fragile child do you have that they are so affected by an acceptance they don’t care for? It’s not binding ( unless they put it as their first choice for Ed.) decline and try to move on ffs.

This is exactly the point, but OP is looking to be "enraged", which makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

That is not exactly accurate, because that is not how the decisions are made. I know people who were admitted to different campuses. You may or may not wish to try again. More humble, this time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

+1-it’s a no for Boston but a pathway to eventually being in Boston for those who want it. If that’s not appealing, decline. it’s no mystery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

That is not exactly accurate, because that is not how the decisions are made. I know people who were admitted to different campuses. You may or may not wish to try again. More humble, this time.

That’s exactly accurate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

+1-it’s a no for Boston but a pathway to eventually being in Boston for those who want it. If that’s not appealing, decline. it’s no mystery.

You are thinking of one of the programs, but it does not pertain to all of the programs.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because the kid's stats aren't good enough to be in Boston campus because Boston campus is more popular. It's not that hard to understand, people.

That is not exactly accurate, because that is not how the decisions are made. I know people who were admitted to different campuses. You may or may not wish to try again. More humble, this time.

That’s exactly accurate.

Meant to reply to this response - you are thinking of one of the programs - it does not apply to all programs. Again, the application and admission information includes all information pertinent to that particular student. You will notice on CC that the admitted students are not "confused".

[Anonymous]

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.

Then why ask the question if they don't plan to utilize the information? With 100K applicants, it would actually make NEU life easier if they used the information they have to give acceptances.

yes, my own kid got NUBound admission and promptly decided against it. But their immediate response was, "Why when I said I did not want to go abroad freshman year" So it's the little things that matter. They ended up at a much better school--one that actually cares about their individual students as more than numbers.

[Anonymous]

Law schools do this too - by rolling out admissions, they hope for immediate acceptances which allows them to control for yield. So some students who apply in September don't hear until April whereas others hear immediately. This is the first I've heard of an undergrad doing it.

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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.

Because kids who don't read the fine print and may have pinned their hopes on this college might be unpleasantly surprised to learn that acceptance involves another location, one they had not considered moving to.
In the big scheme of things, it's not the end of the world, but it feels a little bait and switchy.

It feels that way because it is