Northeastern Admittances

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.

DC’s friend who got into Cornell was deferred by NU yesterday! Go figure!

So is this another one got into ED school and didn’t withdraw other applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.

DC’s friend who got into Cornell was deferred by NU yesterday! Go figure!

So is this another one got into ED school and didn’t withdraw other applications?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.

DC’s friend who got into Cornell was deferred by NU yesterday! Go figure!

So is this another one got into ED school and didn’t withdraw other applications?

Yup

[Anonymous]

That seems wretched. My DC had 9 other apps in when they got accepted ED and withdrew all. It wasn’t easy, actually. They don’t always have a withdraw button to click (and one school still hasn’t acknowledged the withdrawal despite multiple emails sent to the admissions office). One school where they got in rolling doesn’t have a decline button and continues to send mail and stuff trying to persuade acceptance of the offer despite DC having sent multiple emails to admissions to decline. Would turn my stomach if DC got a merit offer that should go to someone else. Maybe they tried to withdraw but weren’t successful?

[Anonymous]

As per Reddit, 50,000EA apps with a 6% acceptance rate. ED apps at a 30something% acceptance rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As per Reddit, 50,000EA apps with a 6% acceptance rate. ED apps at a 30something% acceptance rate.

Another post on College Confidential said 2000 acceptances for EA...so 4%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That seems wretched. My DC had 9 other apps in when they got accepted ED and withdrew all. It wasn’t easy, actually. They don’t always have a withdraw button to click (and one school still hasn’t acknowledged the withdrawal despite multiple emails sent to the admissions office). One school where they got in rolling doesn’t have a decline button and continues to send mail and stuff trying to persuade acceptance of the offer despite DC having sent multiple emails to admissions to decline. Would turn my stomach if DC got a merit offer that should go to someone else. Maybe they tried to withdraw but weren’t successful?

Thats great about your kid withdrawing their applications. However acc to my kid their friend would like to know where else they would have been accepted. They are also waiting on USC and some other UC schools plus BU and others. The friend applied to 19 schools. Mostly all top 50

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That seems wretched. My DC had 9 other apps in when they got accepted ED and withdrew all. It wasn’t easy, actually. They don’t always have a withdraw button to click (and one school still hasn’t acknowledged the withdrawal despite multiple emails sent to the admissions office). One school where they got in rolling doesn’t have a decline button and continues to send mail and stuff trying to persuade acceptance of the offer despite DC having sent multiple emails to admissions to decline. Would turn my stomach if DC got a merit offer that should go to someone else. Maybe they tried to withdraw but weren’t successful?

Thats great about your kid withdrawing their applications. However acc to my kid their friend would like to know where else they would have been accepted. They are also waiting on USC and some other UC schools plus BU and others. The friend applied to 19 schools. Mostly all top 50

The point is that isn't it against the policy and regulation?
It's a violation of the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, this whole school is such a scam. They’re so thirsty.

What do you mean? Why do you say its a scam?

Meaning kid got rejected.

+1

THIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That seems wretched. My DC had 9 other apps in when they got accepted ED and withdrew all. It wasn’t easy, actually. They don’t always have a withdraw button to click (and one school still hasn’t acknowledged the withdrawal despite multiple emails sent to the admissions office). One school where they got in rolling doesn’t have a decline button and continues to send mail and stuff trying to persuade acceptance of the offer despite DC having sent multiple emails to admissions to decline. Would turn my stomach if DC got a merit offer that should go to someone else. Maybe they tried to withdraw but weren’t successful?

Thats great about your kid withdrawing their applications. However acc to my kid their friend would like to know where else they would have been accepted. They are also waiting on USC and some other UC schools plus BU and others. The friend applied to 19 schools. Mostly all top 50

The point is that isn't it against the policy and regulation?
It's a violation of the rules.

Yes it is.

[Anonymous]

Can we discuss the elephant in the room?

Was race a factor in selection? And before everyone gets crazy - all of the schools nowadays make it very clear that it is a goal to include more POC and first gen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we discuss the elephant in the room?

Was race a factor in selection? And before everyone gets crazy - all of the schools nowadays make it very clear that it is a goal to include more POC and first gen.

I though it was refreshing that no one on this thread mentioned race, for once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.

Could there be some of "notoriety" to staggering your acceptance rate per round? i.e. ED, ED2, EA, RD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.

Could there be some of "notoriety" to staggering your acceptance rate per round? i.e. ED, ED2, EA, RD

What do you mean by "notoriety" in this context? I think some schools are being labeled as "yield protectors"--i.e. accused of rejecting "overqualified" applicants because they want to keep their yield statistic low to climb the rankings. However, that statistic is no long part of the USNews ranking...I think the real issue is that for some schools (think the top 10-20), yield is quite high and quite predictable. For others in the 20-50 range, it is increasingly unpredictable, which can lead to massive over-enrollment, which happened to Northeastern last year. I'm guessing that "yield protection" is now "yield management"...they are just trying really hard to predict who will actually matriculate so as to keep their enrollment in line with expectations.

[Anonymous]

Moco public
female
1550 SAT
3.95 UW
12 AP/IBs, all taken exams are 5s
Leadership in multiple ECs
National media attention for one EC
Visited, emailed with admin rep 3x
Outstanding recs (according to counselor)
Deferred