We are in the same hole as you! No ED for us. The kids from our town who applied ED could either full pay or knew they’d get a lot of financial aid. Neither of those were true for us so we were hanging on for merit.
We visited NEU three times including the “invite only” preview day. My D attended Q+A sessions with the Dean of her respective school and was “wooed”. She submitted a portfolio as well.
Deferred from EA and now waitlisted from RD.
Applied business school Boston campus only. Waitlisted. Would have given NEU more thoughts and priorities. I guess not meant to be. Moving on with other great options. Good luck, all!
probably not. The reason for my comment is to help with the stress of the OP student. It is hard if this is your first rejection from a yield protective school and it makes you question if you will get in anywhere. I think it is well with in the school’s right to yield protect
Northeastern started offering a financial pre-read for students considering ED. They gave S23 a significant amount of financial aid. We qualify for nothing at pretty much every other school both kids were accepted to.
I think the push for ED is more about making sure they have enough housing. S21 was accepted to Nu.in so we were following the news about it. They way under-predicted yield that year and housing was a problem.
Daughter applied to Business and got rejected.
The brutal truth is every school uses ED for a variety of institutional reasons, and $ is just one of those reasons. The idea that Northeastern’s increased use of ED is somehow is less meritocratic is just one opinion. Are scholarship athletes who get in with lower “stats” more or less deserving to be there than higher stat students whose families can pay the full tuition? How about a student from Maine who gets in with lower stats vs. someone with higher stats from Massachusetts who gets rejected? How does one rank all these unique students in terms of their “merit” and backgrounds?
We come from the UC system in California, and there are so many examples of private school “high-stat” kids not getting into a UC, while a public school, “lower-stat” kid is admitted for a variety of institutional reasons. We’ll never know why these decisions are made, but let’s not automatically assume it’s because the schools want the $ or some students are more/less “deserving”.
New here but wanted to share that D24 was accepted RD yesterday for the global program. Did not apply EA for NEU because she did EA for Stanford (rejected outright).
3.8 un gpa/4.2 w gpa (8 APs)
35 ACT
Undeclared/leaning towards Biology/STEM major
moderate ECs (1 season of track, some clubs, a science summer internship, and spent multiple summers as a camp counselor)
did not submit LOCI as NEU is one of 20 colleges she applied to and maybe only a top 10.
from CA so I thought she’d be at a geographic disadvantage due to being out of state and less likely to go to Boston
Honestly, I can’t believe how strong others’ stats are and who were still rejected. Maybe it’s because my daughter applied undeclared? She had good essays (she let me read them but wrote them herself) that showed some personality/humor but we are a pretty “typical” suburban two-parent family from CA. We also expect to pay full freight so did not submit FAFSA/apply for FA.
whats better: getting waitlisted at northeastern or getting accepted but it is at northeastern oakland? – for my friend, says he also got a full ride for 4 years to NE oakland first year then rest of the years at NE main
I’ll play along- this is like a bird in hand is worth more than 2 in the bush - except the bird in hand is worth $300000 more than the 2 in bush?
Son deferred EA, accepted Global Scholars for CS. No merit.
Curious, if he doesn’t come in with significant AP credits, how likely is he able to graduate in 4 years? Can someone comment on the curriculum in GS as it meets grad requirements? Will he be able to complete a minor or double major and grad in 4 years? NU boston was his top choice, but global scholars seems a very different experience. We could pay full fare (it would hurt), but trying hard to compare vs UMass which would be $200k less over 4 years. We could use that 200k for grad school (down payment on a house for him as gift 
).
Really like NU, but struggling as we compare to UMass CS in state, IU CS with merit, UConn with merit and other options.
Welcome all feedback…
UMass has a great CS program, and at 200k cheaper than a Global Scholars experience at NU it would be a no-brainer, especially since you stated it would hurt to pay the full tuition at NU. There is no need to sacrifice when you have such great alternatives. Even your other two options would be strong choices if significantly cheaper. No single school will make or break your kid’s future.
Are summer classes covered by regular tuition, or is there an extra cost for those?
A full summer session is approximately an extra $30k. For summer courses it’s around $1950 per credit hour. Summer classes are not included in the normal tuition.
Financial aid WILL be applied to summer sessions. Two summer sessions equal one semester. Your need based and merit aid will be valid to 8 semesters, whether it is a semester or a summer session.
Honestly knew nothing about the pre-read. Way too much for a parent or kid to be aware of in this college process. With each kid I learn a lot more, but thankfully this is my third and last one going through the process. Especially with private schools, they all have their own individual hoops to jump through, strange dates, rules, essays, CSS, and a bunch have their own special additional finAid hoops on top.
Does anyone know when waitlisted students can expect to hear adecision? The letter we received says by Aug 1, obviously well after the commit date for other schools. Any history on past year’s timeframes would be appreciated.
Like at any school, waitlist decisions depend on the number of commitments they receive. In the past such decisions have come out anywhere from late April through June,
In the past few years, the only waitlist admits were to the NU In program. No one was admitted for a Boston start.
Can you or someone explain what yield protection means?
Yield percentage is an important number in college ranking systems. Yield is the percentage of admissions offers made that are accepted. The better the school, usually the higher percentage of offers accepted. 68% of kids who are admitted to Yale actually attend Yale. At UConn, it’s only 20%.
These schools act very differently. UConn offers most kids that meet their criteria, and hope the top students accept. Yale, like many privates, will make more strategic offers to kids they think will accept. In fact with most of their athletes they recruit, they sort of make the athlete verbally commit (or ED) before they even make an offer.
Northeasterns meteoric rise was mostly attributed to paying more attention than most schools to perfecting the rankings game. So yield percentage is important to them. This is why they take such a high percentage of ED kids. Then with the remaining RD, they don’t offer the BEST kids purely, they offer to good students who they also think will have a high chance of attending. A kid who applied to 6 ivies and 5 other schools ranked higher than NEU will have a lower chance of attending than a kid who sees NEU as a bit of a reach, has strong financials, lives closer to Boston, and has shown lots of DI. This practice is yield protection.
This may have had something to do with the rise.
IAC_23_DATASHEET_02.16.24_FINAL.pdf (northeastern.edu)