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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

[i]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. [b]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.[/b]
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. [/i][/quote]

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. [/quote]

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