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Anonymous wrote:Deferred, MCPS 1550 SAT, 4.8w GPA, varsity captain, leadership blah blah. Slightly bummed but my kid showed little demonstrated interest in the school so I can't say I'm too surprised. Lesson learned.

How was he supposed to show interest? Do they even have supplemental essays? I thought NEU has risen in rankings by aggressively going after high stats kids just like yours, interest or no interest

Last year and this year, I have seen a lot of high stat kids getting rejected.
People are suspecting yeild protection, but not sure what is actually going on.

This is really weird. Scatter grams for our school shows all green for certain gpa and SAT. Didn’t think NU was ‘selective’ in the same way as Ivies. This is really nuts!

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred, MCPS 1550 SAT, 4.8w GPA, varsity captain, leadership blah blah. Slightly bummed but my kid showed little demonstrated interest in the school so I can't say I'm too surprised. Lesson learned.

How was he supposed to show interest? Do they even have supplemental essays? I thought NEU has risen in rankings by aggressively going after high stats kids just like yours, interest or no interest

Last year and this year, I have seen a lot of high stat kids getting rejected.
People are suspecting yeild protection, but not sure what is actually going on.

Anonymous wrote:Deferred, MCPS 1550 SAT, 4.8w GPA, varsity captain, leadership blah blah. Slightly bummed but my kid showed little demonstrated interest in the school so I can't say I'm too surprised. Lesson learned.

How was he supposed to show interest? Do they even have supplemental essays? I thought NEU has risen in rankings by aggressively going after high stats kids just like yours, interest or no interest

Anonymous wrote:deferred
fcps
cs major
4.06 wgpa/1450

CS related ECs and leadership.

in at 3 other places already so declined consideration in RD.

The trend is that CS is harder at almost everywhere

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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.

Deferred, MCPS 1550 SAT, 4.8w GPA, varsity captain, leadership blah blah. Slightly bummed but my kid showed little demonstrated interest in the school so I can't say I'm too surprised. Lesson learned.

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?

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

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted to global first year experience (first semester abroad). Arlington public school
1420 SAT
4.15 GPA

Parent nervously awaiting financial aid info in next few days, and country list.

These stats are considerably lower that other PPs who were deferred. Why do you think that is? Is it need? I have a Junior and we also need aid!

Not based on financial need, but it will impact our decision. The GPA appears lower because we kept credits earned in middle school on the transcript.

So this year's acceptance rate will be around 15% or so?

Anonymous wrote:Kid was accepted EA from an APS high school. 3.98 GPA/4.50 wGPA, 35 ACT with good, long-term extra-curriculars with leadership. Admitted to the Honors Program with very generous merit aid (Northeastern University Honors Scholarship). Will need to see where else he gets in, but right now NU is looking pretty good.

Congratulations!

Kid was accepted EA from an APS high school. 3.98 GPA/4.50 wGPA, 35 ACT with good, long-term extra-curriculars with leadership. Admitted to the Honors Program with very generous merit aid (Northeastern University Honors Scholarship). Will need to see where else he gets in, but right now NU is looking pretty good.

The N.U.In program (first semester abroad) is not a bad option if Northeastern is one of the top choices and you don't get a very satisfying second option.
You spend the frist semester (not one year) at a country like UK, Italy, Irland, etc. Knock off a few general freshmen requirements while having a global experience.
Ideally you would want to start the college at the main campus but a chunk of student body comes in and out at Northeatern for COOP anyways.

I believe NUin is first semester only abroad.
NU Bound is first year abroad.

DS is a FCPS Jr. Loved our visit. Interesting though, their admissions profile on Twitter only has 5,700 followers. IG has 12,900.