<p>I’ll just post what my application was like to give you some sort of idea of what it takes.</p>
<p>Northeastern was the only school I applied to, I applied early action. I got in with the $17,000 a year merit scholarship, and was accepted into the honors program. I was absolutely shocked that I got anything, let alone the highest “Dean’s scholarship” available.</p>
<p>My GPA is non-weighted, and calculated on a 100-point scale. So my whole GPA over the first three years of high school (no senior grades were sent) was 88.8 I believe. Except for 2 random classes sophomore year, all of my classes were honors, high honors (math), or AP. I was in 2 AP classes junior year, and wrote on my application that I was taking 4 more senior year.</p>
<p>I think what probably impressed them was my ACT scores, I got a 35, which is equivalent to around 2300 on the SAT’s. I had a pretty good essay, and decent extra curriculars, but nothing special.</p>
<p>I think Northeastern tends to give a lot more partial scholarships than other schools, so that might be why. I don’t really care why I got it, I’m just happy that I did.</p>