Northeastern EA is out

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Anonymous wrote:My kid accepted to London Scholars too. First year in London then back to Boston. Kid is High Stats from Big 3. Dc has better options but happy to be admitted.

No wonder it’s so popular! First year in London sounds wonderful.

If this appeals to you, please know that lots of schools have this as an option for the first year or one semester.

Of course they do, now......

I went abroad in my senior fall in 1998 and half my study abroad program was first year Middlebury students.

I think it’s highly unlikely the kids who went abroad their first year that you were in college did so: the first semester AND because the school was mandating it if they wanted to go. That’s a very new thing and usually looked at as something kids don’t want (not elective) for a first year.

“Mandating it if they wanted to go to the base school.” The new aspect is you are told with your admissions letter if you want to go here, you MUST go international the first year or first semester. They tell you the parameters and you have no choice if you want that school.

Then don’t attend. All applicants have high stats, and they know they will very easy fill your spot, given almost 100k applicants.

Seriously. I don't understand the people that get their knickers all in a bunch when NU offers an first-semester abroad program. It is not mandatory...the student can say no. The alternative would be to be denied altogether. I'd love for my kid to have this option at the school he was just denied at!

From a parent/applicant perspective: when my kid applied, NEU specifically had a box asking "are you willing to start your NEU experience OFF campus/abroad". My kid checked that box. So to them, getting an NUIn acceptance made it seem like NEU doesn't really give a shit about the student and what you say. Why ask the question if you are going to ignore the response? Made my kid think about how they would be treated once they matriculated---that they might always just be a number in the process. Instead my kid choose from 5 other acceptances (all 5 being higher ranked/better schools).

Do you mean she didn't check the box?

Yes, sorry, my son checked the box "don't want to go abroad".

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DD was invited to apply with a free application, she got deferred. No SAT, below 4.0 GPA, excellent essay and showed lots of interest. She’s excited to be in the running!

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They probably filled a lot of their class ED. No need to admit many EA or RD if that’s the case.

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Curious about the NU in program. My child's acceptance letter said the program would be for a year in London, but everyone here-and even what I'm seeing online- says only the first semester is abroad.

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Anonymous wrote:And another 1520 CS major with incredible rigor and straight As. Wish she hadn’t gotten sucked into their vortex!

What does this mean?

Let’s just leave it at this

Northeastern has an incredible marketing machine.

Sure! They "force" all these kids to apply. Uh huh.

No, but they market well and Boston is an easy college location to market. Then when it's just pay your $75 or $100 and click send from the common app, it's an easy submission for kids to "just see if they can get in". They have literally tripled the number of applicants in the last decade. That comes from marketing

They positioned well.
Anything wrong with that?

They actually improved vastly for the past 10 20 30 years.
They are literally on par with T20ish schools on the major metrics.
You can't just blame marketing for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred - 1520 SAT, valedictorian of large public. Just accepted spot at Michigan and hadn’t gotten around to withdrawing but a bit surprised.

Surprised? How so?

Certainly not a safety, but Naviance data from our school has been pretty clear that NE admits high stats kids EA.

The problem with that thinking is forgetting there were 98K+ applications. I'm going to guess at least 30-40K+ are "high stats kids". So yeah, they admit them but with only wanting 2600 in Boston and another 2-3K total spread on the other campuses for fall simple math indicates many, many, many high stats kids will get denied.

Or just apply ED and then you can brag to all your friends your kid got into a school with 6% acceptance rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the NU in program. My child's acceptance letter said the program would be for a year in London, but everyone here-and even what I'm seeing online- says only the first semester is abroad.

They have two different programs.
Semester program is called NUIn
One year program is called Global Scholar or something like that.
Your kid is probably the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred - 1520 SAT, valedictorian of large public. Just accepted spot at Michigan and hadn’t gotten around to withdrawing but a bit surprised.

Surprised? How so?

Certainly not a safety, but Naviance data from our school has been pretty clear that NE admits high stats kids EA.

The problem with that thinking is forgetting there were 98K+ applications. I'm going to guess at least 30-40K+ are "high stats kids". So yeah, they admit them but with only wanting 2600 in Boston and another 2-3K total spread on the other campuses for fall simple math indicates many, many, many high stats kids will get denied.

Or just apply ED and then you can brag to all your friends your kid got into a school with 6% acceptance rate.

UVA accepts all their students ED, including UVA Wise, and their acceptance rate is still over 20%!

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred - 1520 SAT, valedictorian of large public. Just accepted spot at Michigan and hadn’t gotten around to withdrawing but a bit surprised.

Surprised? How so?

Certainly not a safety, but Naviance data from our school has been pretty clear that NE admits high stats kids EA.

The problem with that thinking is forgetting there were 98K+ applications. I'm going to guess at least 30-40K+ are "high stats kids". So yeah, they admit them but with only wanting 2600 in Boston and another 2-3K total spread on the other campuses for fall simple math indicates many, many, many high stats kids will get denied.

Or just apply ED and then you can brag to all your friends your kid got into a school with 6% acceptance rate.

UVA accepts all their students ED, including UVA Wise, and their acceptance rate is still over 20%!

UVA has 1 year at Wise program.
Anyone got on the waitlist for Art & Science school automatically have the offer.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the NU in program. My child's acceptance letter said the program would be for a year in London, but everyone here-and even what I'm seeing online- says only the first semester is abroad.

They have two different programs.
Semester program is called NUIn
One year program is called Global Scholar or something like that.
Your kid is probably the latter.

Thank you
Does anyone know of why a student would be chosen for one program over the other?

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the NU in program. My child's acceptance letter said the program would be for a year in London, but everyone here-and even what I'm seeing online- says only the first semester is abroad.

They have two different programs.
Semester program is called NUIn
One year program is called Global Scholar or something like that.
Your kid is probably the latter.

Thank you
Does anyone know of why a student would be chosen for one program over the other?

Only admissions knows and they do not share. I believe it is random, from what I have seen, as all campus admits seem equally highly qualified.

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred - 1520 SAT, valedictorian of large public. Just accepted spot at Michigan and hadn’t gotten around to withdrawing but a bit surprised.

Surprised? How so?

Certainly not a safety, but Naviance data from our school has been pretty clear that NE admits high stats kids EA.

The problem with that thinking is forgetting there were 98K+ applications. I'm going to guess at least 30-40K+ are "high stats kids". So yeah, they admit them but with only wanting 2600 in Boston and another 2-3K total spread on the other campuses for fall simple math indicates many, many, many high stats kids will get denied.

Or just apply ED and then you can brag to all your friends your kid got into a school with 6% acceptance rate.

UVA accepts all their students ED, including UVA Wise, and their acceptance rate is still over 20%!

UVA has 1 year at Wise program.
Anyone got on the waitlist for Art & Science school automatically have the offer.

I am very familiar with both schools, and UVA Wise applicants are definitely lesser qualified.

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred - 1520 SAT, valedictorian of large public. Just accepted spot at Michigan and hadn’t gotten around to withdrawing but a bit surprised.

Surprised? How so?

Certainly not a safety, but Naviance data from our school has been pretty clear that NE admits high stats kids EA.

The problem with that thinking is forgetting there were 98K+ applications. I'm going to guess at least 30-40K+ are "high stats kids". So yeah, they admit them but with only wanting 2600 in Boston and another 2-3K total spread on the other campuses for fall simple math indicates many, many, many high stats kids will get denied.

Or just apply ED and then you can brag to all your friends your kid got into a school with 6% acceptance rate.

UVA accepts all their students ED, including UVA Wise, and their acceptance rate is still over 20%!

UVA has 1 year at Wise program.
Anyone got on the waitlist for Art & Science school automatically have the offer.

I am very familiar with both schools, and UVA Wise applicants are definitely lesser qualified.

*admitants, not applicants

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the NU in program. My child's acceptance letter said the program would be for a year in London, but everyone here-and even what I'm seeing online- says only the first semester is abroad.

They have two different programs.
Semester program is called NUIn
One year program is called Global Scholar or something like that.
Your kid is probably the latter.

Thank you
Does anyone know of why a student would be chosen for one program over the other?

Only admissions knows and they do not share. I believe it is random, from what I have seen, as all campus admits seem equally highly qualified.

Ridiculous statement. Random - from what you’ve seen? Your sample of 5? 20? You have no idea.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid accepted to London Scholars too. First year in London then back to Boston. Kid is High Stats from Big 3. Dc has better options but happy to be admitted.

No wonder it’s so popular! First year in London sounds wonderful.

If this appeals to you, please know that lots of schools have this as an option for the first year or one semester.

Of course they do, now......

I went abroad in my senior fall in 1998 and half my study abroad program was first year Middlebury students.

I think it’s highly unlikely the kids who went abroad their first year that you were in college did so: the first semester AND because the school was mandating it if they wanted to go. That’s a very new thing and usually looked at as something kids don’t want (not elective) for a first year.

“Mandating it if they wanted to go to the base school.” The new aspect is you are told with your admissions letter if you want to go here, you MUST go international the first year or first semester. They tell you the parameters and you have no choice if you want that school.

Then don’t attend. All applicants have high stats, and they know they will very easy fill your spot, given almost 100k applicants.

Seriously. I don't understand the people that get their knickers all in a bunch when NU offers an first-semester abroad program. It is not mandatory...the student can say no. The alternative would be to be denied altogether. I'd love for my kid to have this option at the school he was just denied at!

From a parent/applicant perspective: when my kid applied, NEU specifically had a box asking "are you willing to start your NEU experience OFF campus/abroad". My kid checked that box. So to them, getting an NUIn acceptance made it seem like NEU doesn't really give a shit about the student and what you say. Why ask the question if you are going to ignore the response? Made my kid think about how they would be treated once they matriculated---that they might always just be a number in the process. Instead my kid choose from 5 other acceptances (all 5 being higher ranked/better schools).

Do you mean she didn't check the box?

Yes, sorry, my son checked the box "don't want to go abroad".

I would take the positive spin (which I understand is hard right now) and think maybe they really like your daughter and hope she will reconsider. Northeastern accepts a lot of their class ED I and ED II so that doesn't leave a lot of spots left for the Boston campus.