D24 accepted a spot on the WL while we wait to see how the rest of the decisions go. She does not expect to get off it but keeping all options open for now.
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Daughter was deferred from EA to RD, and now rejected.
Top 2% of class, 1510 sat, won her schoolâs Woman in STEM stem award, soccer player, 11 AP, 5.x gpa, 4.0 uw, strong LoR.
The folks we know who got in did ED, cost wasnât a factor for them. It was for us. She also considered NEU one of 15 or so schools she would like to go to (not THE school). Sheâs also pretty bad with demonstrated interest. Itâs not her thing. She does her own research, never has done a virtual event for any school, even prefers we visit them and do our own tour (never signs up for tours, etc), ignores many emails that are clearly marketing subjected. She also blocked off any option to attend that wasnât main Boston campus.
At a school like NEU where yield protection is so high, all of the above is probably not a great combination, especially with her stats and low chances she would have selected NEU from a big list, with money also going playing a role. Sadly, NEU was in her top 5 or so, that was the first college she wanted to visit and 2 hours from us so it was up there.
So far the yield protection blind schools have been loving her, even notably higher ranked schools than NEU. Sheâs 0-2 on privates that look at DI and yield protect, which is very understandable 
Congrats to those who have been accepted! If you chose NEU, that co-op program is great and a parents dream
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at this point i have other options that Iâd prefer, so probably not
D24 got into engineering - global scholars. Good stats but cant remember exactly, had close to 10APs + dual credits and 1510 SAT. Good extra curriculars and clubs + class officer . Am interested more to know about the global scholars
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The merit notification was somewhere in her portal but Iâm not exactly sure where. I just know it wasnât in the acceptance letter.
Another way to look at yield protection is that a school is seeking to admit students for whom they are the first choice (ED I) or second choice (ED II). Not students for whom the school is a safety.
Northeastern offers financial aid preread before applying ED. This removes the fear of being bound to an option that is unaffordable.
Iâm not sure Northeastern is a âsafetyâ for anyone really. Not these days. For my daughter it was a target, and she was above their average in SAT, and top 25% of their GPA and rigor areas. But to me that makes it at best a target. I think the yield protect is mainly just a way to ensure their rankings with us news. And they prefer to rely on people who essentially pre-commit. After that with RD, they are probably picking kids with decent numbers but high DI.
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The way it has played out, if you didnât apply ED, youâre probably not getting in unless you have something that they were missing from the ED pool. My D was deferred to RD from EA and then waitlisted. Four other students from her high school were accepted ED to Boston campus. All four are lower stats, lower involvement students. Iâm positive that if my D applied ED she would have been admitted but that wasnât in our plan.
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My son applied EA, deferred then rejected.
He really didnât know what he wanted out of a school (and still kind of doesnât 
) so there was no way he could ED.
I think the message I would communicate to kids in future years is:
- If you definitely want to attend Northeastern, you have got to apply ED and donât worry if your stats are at or below their published averages.
- If you will not attend unless you get the Boston campus, donât bother applying unless you apply ED. (I know a very few kids from EA did get get into Boston campus, but it was statistically so small compared to the applicant poolâŠ)
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I got in RD round. I am intl with no sat. so quite surprised. can someone tell me the approx RD acceptance rate? I donât think itâs gonna be high since NU admitted soooo many people in ed/ea.
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5% last year.
really? idk how they took me
ED also results in high retention and graduation rates, which matter more than a few points on the SAT or ACT and GPA.
I forgot to add major: Biomedical Physics
Reading this thread, not yet seeing any/many NEU Boston. It looks like they are releasing all the EA deferred right now, which makes sense since they already read those a while back.
i applied rd, got in.
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my kid had the same outcome last year with high stats and also got in UNC honors college (OOS). I think that Northeastern totally yield protects. I respond to tell you not to worry or stress about this one. Mine ended up at an Ivy.
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can someone pls shed some light into NEUâs rd acceptance rate
RD acceptance is about 5%. Iâm not sure if this includes all admissions options or just the Boston campus. Anecdotally, it looks like most of the admits for RD have been through global scholars or NUin where students either spend the first year at London and Oakland or the first semester in one of the international programs.
This suggests that NE mostly filled up its 2,600 Boston spots through ED and EA.
RD Admit rate to Boston is most likely far lower than 5% since the majority of the spots this year have been filled by ED admits. (2,000 out of ~2,600) According to this article, last year they admitted 5,300 applicants to Boston for 2,600 spots. Thatâs a yield of 50% for Boston. However itâs unclear if they accepted more % ED this year vs. last year.
My understanding is that they also donât publish NUin or London/Oakland/Global Scholars admit rates, and those are certainly not included in the 5.6% admit rate mentioned in the article.
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