Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 16:03     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
Anonymous wrote:It's really not a college town (props to anyone who gets this).


College town = middle of nowhere
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 15:56     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
The blog at collegekickstart has the numbers.

56,000 applied early action to the NEU's Boston campus, 2640 were admitted


Anonymous wrote:Do you have a source for the 5% early action acceptanc rate for NEU? Sounds too low based on how it accepts students in the past.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 14:40     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
Anonymous wrote:I just had my son post this on A2C but I thought I would get a 2nd opinion from some fellow parents. My daughter is a junior and she knows she wants to go to school in Boston. She’s considering these 4 schools: Boston College, Tufts, BU, and Northeastern. She is going to apply to all of them but she wants to apply to one for Early Decision 1 and another for Early Decision 2 if she does not get in. To my knowledge, all of them offer ED2 plans. What school would you pick for these admission plans? I am not too knowledgeable about the ins and outs of these universities. She wants to study psychology and she also enjoys math, chemistry, and biology. Which of these schools offers the best undergrad experience or programs for her major? Thanks



Have you explored this with her, OP? It's sounds a bit juvenile. Or is a boyfriend going there? Boston is OK ( I went to school and lived there 7 years) but very cold, veyr conservative in parts, and insular. Why, in particular, Boston? Has she seen slacs or other schools in new england?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 14:29     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
It's really not a college town (props to anyone who gets this).
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Post 02/13/2024 12:46     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
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Anonymous wrote:OP, the visits will answer almost all of your questions. Each of the four has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is very likely that she will be able to rank her personal preferences among the four for ED1, ED2, and RD after the visits.

They are all reaches. Start thinking about matches and safeties.

Make sure you can afford them all. Use each of their Net Price Calculators.


I definitely have. She has GW and Fordham in mind for safeties. All of the schools she has picked are affordable


Fordham and GW are targets, NOT safeties. Advice kindly meant to a newbie.


Husband is convinced they're safeties. What school should she add as a true safety then?


If you had said Harvard or MIT were targets then GW and Fordham would be safeties. But if you consider Northeastern, BU, Tufts, and BC DC’s targets then a true safety would be U Mass Boston.

This is hilarious. NEU, BC, Tufts and BU not targets for anyone. Even for top students, by acceptance rates they are low reaches


My DS applied to NEU and BC last year. 1580 SAT, 4.0 UW GPA, very good recommendations and ECs. He got rejected from NEU. I assume it may have been yield protection, but who knows? He got into BC, and is now at UVA.


My kid had the opposite result. 1540 SAT 3.97 UW GPA, good recommendations and not bad ECs.
Applied EA to NEU. NEU was a good fit and accepted to Boston campus.
Applied EA to UVA(In-state), Waitlisted by UVA
UVA was at the bottom of the list anyways, so was like ok whatever and is now at NEU.




If it was the top choice why didn't he ED to NEU then?


It wasn't the top choice.
Applied to a few T20ish lottery schools including REA to Yale, but didn't make it.
Also she was the first kid and didn't know as much as now about the whole admission tricks.

For VA schools, UVA CS in art & science(waitlisted) and VT CS(got in).
Probably should've applied undecided to UVA as it's relatively easy to declare CS major in A&S.
DD wanted to go out of state anyways, and it worked out fine in the end.



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Post 02/13/2024 12:16     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
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Anonymous wrote:OP, the visits will answer almost all of your questions. Each of the four has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is very likely that she will be able to rank her personal preferences among the four for ED1, ED2, and RD after the visits.

They are all reaches. Start thinking about matches and safeties.

Make sure you can afford them all. Use each of their Net Price Calculators.


I definitely have. She has GW and Fordham in mind for safeties. All of the schools she has picked are affordable


Fordham and GW are targets, NOT safeties. Advice kindly meant to a newbie.


Husband is convinced they're safeties. What school should she add as a true safety then?


If you had said Harvard or MIT were targets then GW and Fordham would be safeties. But if you consider Northeastern, BU, Tufts, and BC DC’s targets then a true safety would be U Mass Boston.

This is hilarious. NEU, BC, Tufts and BU not targets for anyone. Even for top students, by acceptance rates they are low reaches


My DS applied to NEU and BC last year. 1580 SAT, 4.0 UW GPA, very good recommendations and ECs. He got rejected from NEU. I assume it may have been yield protection, but who knows? He got into BC, and is now at UVA.


My kid had the opposite result. 1540 SAT 3.97 UW GPA, good recommendations and not bad ECs.
Applied EA to NEU. NEU was a good fit and accepted to Boston campus.
Applied EA to UVA(In-state), Waitlisted by UVA
UVA was at the bottom of the list anyways, so was like ok whatever and is now at NEU.




If it was the top choice why didn't he ED to NEU then?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 12:11     Subject: Daughter wants to study in Boston
Do you have a source for the 5% early action acceptanc rate for NEU? Sounds too low based on how it accepts students in the past.