@swimmerD , every state and every region with larger states has an assigned admissions rep. You can look yours up right here: http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/contact-us/admissions-staff/ Track yours down and reach out. Find out if by any chance they are going to be at your school or if they are holding some sort of admissions event in your area and GO!
We too were out of state. Pretty much as far away from Boston as you can get except some parts of California and all of Alaska and Hawaii. A Northeastern admissions rep came to my son’s school more than once and there were admissions events in our area as well. We also visited campus his junior year so that was the beginning of the love affair.
Glad you were on it @PengsPhils and thanks for confirming that I was not nuts @TomSrOfBoston. Stupid comments like that by people with either malicious intentions, ignorance or a false sense of their importance are partly why I hate “chance me” threads. They often bring people like that out from under the rocks. The other reason however is of course that the answer always is, if you apply, you have a chance and if you don’t you don’t. It’s hard to get much more scientific than that without being an admissions rep who understands the make up of the entire applicant pool and having total access to an applicant’s file including reading the essays and recommendations, knowing all of the particular’s about the applicant’s school profile etc. Stats never tell the entire picture and as I said, I’m a bit dubious about a laundry list of ECs mattering all that much. (Just an opinion as already stated so if you think otherwise, that’s cool too.)