Northeastern: A Good Safety?

scansmom
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:49:15 +0000

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.

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?