EA Class of 2022

ohiocollegemom
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 15:39:15 +0000

I didn’t understood the importance of a need-blind vs. need-aware school. NEU is need-aware, which means they consider a student’s financial aid when deciding to accept or not. And the pay gap is a huge factor. If a student needs this much $$, they are this % likely to attend. If the college bumps up the award by, even as low as $500 or $1000, that will increase the % to attend, affecting yield rate, and there is that word again. NEU follows this matrix and other matrices because it keeps the school on the US News 100 list. NEU is doggedly aggressive about protecting their ranking on the list because it brings in money. It’s a tough business, and I believe they miss out on some very good students in the long run. He did apply CS, but I question the difficulty of getting into this college (in comparison to the other colleges at NEU) because at Preview Day, the Faculty Advisor for the Computer Science session told the small group of us that they’ll take anyone, even if that student has had no prior experience coding or interest in coding. Their goal is to make everyone a coder. Quite honestly, we were shocked to hear that comment. But, in the end, I think it came down to money and @suzyQ7, you might be right that they had too many NMF’s already. There are administrations that invest in the educational reputation of the school and there are administrations that invest in the engineering of the numbers.