Chance me ED2 Northeastern [NY resident, 93 GPA, "need financial aid"; business or economics]

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chance me for northeastern ed 2

Demographics:

Location: Long Island, New York
HS Type: Competitive Public High School
Black Female

Intended Major: Business or Economics

GPA (UW/W): 93 UW/96 W. 101 W first semester.
6 APs, 6 College Courses, 2 honors.

5 on all taken except AP World History, which was a four.

Test Scores: Test Optional

Awards:

  • Recognition for Mock Trial
  • AP Scholar with Honors
  • National African American Recognition
  • National Honor Society
  • Business Honor Society

Extracurriculars:

  • Mock Trial; Lead Lawyer; team consistently placed top 16 in our county each year while I was on the team.
  • Work; Managed the social media page, interned at the corporate office for two weeks.
  • Research; Wrote a research paper and surveyed 204 students from my high school. Competed at social science and STEM competitions. Published in a student journal at my school. Sent them my research paper.
  • Newspaper; assistant editor and main writer. Wrote as a main editor and writer during the junior edition.
  • Junior Achievement (Volunteer)
  • Euro Challenge and Fed Challenge (Published research about problems within European countries or this country. I think this, plus the research paper gave me a good research spike or hook.)
  • Rest is kind of irrelevant sports and work stuff.

ESSAYS:

(7/10)- Wrote about my issues with body issues and my scoliosis. Likened my mirror to a battlefield.

LORs:

APUSH teacher (7/10): I really improved in her class and I asked her to highlight it in her LOR. I went from an 89 first semester to a 100 second, and finished with a 95 overall. This was the first English/History class I had below a 90 so it was really challenging. We formed a close connection and she regarded me as one of her most hardworking students.

AP Lang teacher (6/10): The class was pretty bad so the teacher liked me a lot because I asked a lot of questions and tried to get a discussion going within the class. I’m also a pretty good writer, which he liked.

OTHER RESULTS:

Accepted: St. John’s University (34k scholarship), University at Buffalo (6k scholarship), Fordham University (19k scholarship), and Umass Amherst (14k scholarship).

Deferred: Tulane, Binghamton, Stony brook

Rejected: Maryland

Waiting: Northeastern (ED2), Boston University, Boston College, Lehigh University, Barnard College, NYU, George Washington University, Syracuse.

Cost Restraints: Need financial aid to attend.

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Great profile. Did you run the net price calculator to ensure you can afford?

I’d say no only because it’s very competitive and the other decisions are consistent.

TO is not a help. They rate test very important although less than half last year submitted.

Did you apply to Alabama or other schools that might heavily reward your African American recognition status?

I don’t remember the exact but I think it was free tuition and first year housing.

They no longer list the award, maybe sue to the Supreme Court but if you list it in awards, you might be going near free like last year’s recipients of the award. It’s very geographically diverse with 2k kids alone from NY/ NJ/CT.

Alternatively, can you afford any of your admits?

Did you run the NPCs at the remainder of your privates to check affordability ?

Good luck.

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Thanks for your feedback. No, I did not apply to Bama because the atmosphere is not for me. Northeastern has an award so I decided to apply. Also, I received a pre-financial aid read and can afford it.

I’ll definitely lyk whether I get in or not. I don’t expect to get into my first choice (Boston) but I think I may get into their alternative campuses.

If you don’t mind me asking. What do you mean my other decisions are consistent? Would like to know more. Thanks!

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Your UMD and deferrals tell me the rest of your list will be tough.

My biggest question is - if you got in nowhere else, are any acceptances affordable ?

I surmise UMD would not have made budget although I don’t know what your budget is ?

Need aid could mean you can afford $70k, $40k or $10k - you don’t say.

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Yes my others are affordable, especially for UMass Amherst— where I plan to commit if I do not get into Northeastern ED2. I can afford 50k. Thanks!

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Deferrals can sometimes be harder to predict but UMD seems a little off to me. When you say business or economics, may I assume you are applying into business schools and not the liberal arts college. That can make things harder.

You seem like a solid applicant to me. Hopeful that Maryland was just a strange occurrence.

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I wish you luck with NU and the others - but worst case you’ve already got a great landing spot !!

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hey! Thanks for the comment— unfortunately everyone at my school applied to Binghamton, and a lot of people applied to the school of management. I know some strong students who were deferred. By the time I opened it, I kind of expected it lol.

As for Maryland, I’m hoping so, too.

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UMD wasn’t strange unfortunately. Strange you applied bcuz you couldn’t afford even with max merit. It’s a tough admit. Looking at your record I would have guessed rejection although a reasonable reach for sure.

Too many kids are apllying TO. Many publics want tests to validate GPAs which are high across the board.

Umass is very up and coming b school wise but not cheap.

But it’s a solid flagshipschool, like many others.

B4 u keep your ED2, make sure it’s affordable on the NPC.

Good luck.

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yes, i was rejected at UMD. The previous commenter was mentioning my deferrals- stonybrook and binghamton.

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I updated the last

Sounds like you’ll win either way, Umass a great landing.

Best of luck.

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Looking at results posted on this year’s UMD thread, it’s gotten quite unpredictable (especially for business and CS). They’re a lot more holistic in admissions than most public flagships, and get a lot of NY applicants.
So I wouldn’t use that as a guide for other results. I’m optimistic OP will have a few good acceptances to pick from.

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How do kids from your school do at NEU? That is probably a good predictor of your chances. Our school has a high acceptance rate there (around 50%) although many of those are to alternate campuses. I think you have a decent chance at NUin or one of the other campuses but I don’t think you will get in to Boston.

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Nu in is only one semester, the rest is at Boston.

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I know that. However, it is alternate entry program. Not that many students are accepted straight to the Boston campus - typically the strongest.

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It seems like so many are accepted to alternate entry. At our school typically half of the kids who apply to Northeastern are admitted (10/20 or so in each of the last 5 years) but almost no one attends. I assume almost everyone is admitted to an alternate entry program and wondered if there is any info on yield for those programs. I’ve heard it’s not reflected in CDS but wondered if alternate entry acceptance rates and yield are available somewhere?

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Northeastern is a reach but not unreachable so with the ED boost I’m optimistic, keeping in mond odds are low for everyone.
If they offer you nu.in (1st semester away from Boston) would you take it?
Did you get into UMass Honors or Honors at any orher college? UMass allows you to take classes at Smith or Amherst (college) which would be a nice benefit.
Binghamton SOM is super competitive but I’ll keep my fingers crossed, seems doable.
BU and BC without the ED boost seem dubious.
Everything else is also a reach. You may get a boost at Barnard from being a NYS resident but just as well may lose out due to lack of geographical diversity.

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hey I probably would take it because my parents and I determined NUin is affordable for one semester. An entire year at a different campus would not be affordable. Also forgot to mention I got St. John’s honors and Buffalo honors.

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So many kids from my school get into NEU, even RD, so the odds aren’t bad in terms of my school.

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Confused - NU In has an estimated semester cost of $40k but the Boston and CA have a full year of $86k.

There’s little difference.

What am I missing that makes the NU In affordable vs an entire year elsewhere ?

You’ll need aid either way it sounds like.