<p>Hey all… I’m a freshman student in a French public university eager (understatement) to get back to my beloved United States and its fabulous education system. I’m applying to Brandeis and Boston, but just in case they don’t work out, I’m thinking about Northeastern as a safety. Please take a second to look over my stats and give me your opinion. Thanks!</p>
<p>White, Jewish
Public high school in midwest
Current student at public international university studying modern language and literature
GPA 3.942 (weighted)
Class Rank 17 out of 202 (top 10 percent)
SAT 680 writing 670 critical reading 530 math (I’ve only taken it once and will retake December 2nd)
SAT II 700 French (taken once like 2 years ago…I’m pretty sure I can get a perfect score now since I am completely bilingual), will take English lit Jan. 27th
AP English (4), AP French (5)… (my school only offered a few APs)
Mostly all honors/college prep classes
ECs (from high school)
-Young Democrats
-Drama Club
-Newspaper staff
-Chess club
-FBLA
-nursing home volunteer
-national honor society
-French club
ECs (that I will have in the coming year)
-Democrats abroad
-The American Club of Lyon
-Jewish youth group
-Ballet
-probably some volunteer work as well…</p>
<p>You should not consider Northeastern to be a safety unless you improve your SAT’s (your combined SAT M/V is below last year’s average). Northeastern has gotten pretty selective during the past few years and has an acceptance rate just above 40%.</p>
<p>That is the rate for 2005. According to NEU’s strategic plan (initially put into place in 2001), their goal is to lower acceptance rates to 39% by 2008. In 2001 it was 62.8; went down to 47.5 in 2003, went down even further to 42.5 in 2004, then back up to 47 in 2005. One of the deans at orientation this summer told us that it was back down to around 42 for this year’s freshman class. At the same time SAT averages have been rising (1225 in 2005, 1230 this year–it was 1139 in 2001), with the goal to reach 1250 by 2008. I believe their yield this year was also higher than expected (2955 enrolled freshman for an anticipated 2800 enrollment?). They also moved up 17 spots in USNews rankings this year and are now in the top 100, and as a result they are expecting a record number of applicants again this year. </p>
<p>All I am saying is that you really cannot consider this school to be a good safety given your SATs. IMO. Although since they are trying to also attain better geographic diversity who knows?</p>
<p>yes, sorry this was for freshman applicants; transfers are a completely different story and would also need to know your current GPA; ave GPA for enrolled transfers this yr was 3.21 (btw, 2005 acceptance rate was around 51%)</p>
<p>scansmom, yes I assumed you were talking about freshmen apps. I am unclear about the OP. It sounds like he was a US high school student and chose to go to university in France, now wants to come back here so I assume transfer student. I am not clear whether the stats above are from HS or university … OP , please post to clarify…</p>
<p>Also, if a transfer student, be sure to check the NEU admissions web page for transfer student requirements, they vary from college to college and you may need to contact the school about whether your credits will transfer.</p>
<p>SAT scores don’t weigh nearly as heavily once you’re applying as a transfer student, so if you’re getting A’s in a college-level math course right now that would probably off-set the low Math SAT score. Are you applying as a Spring 2007 or Fall 2007 transfer?</p>