Look at it as soft rejection. And since you are released from your binding ED, you can go through the RD round and see if there are better choices for your daughter. I’ve heard great things about the Oakland campus. Perhaps the biggest negative is that it is a small campus in terms of enrollment. But it if it is only for one year, many are going to take Northeastern up on that offer.
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The Boston schools (all of the them) can’t figure out the dorm situation. Any other explanation is bull- there aren’t enough dorms so they need somewhere to put freshman- you said you are from the area so you know- how insane is real estate here that Oakland California is a cheaper option? It’s all about dorms.
It’s all about business. They want to fill those facilities with students to recoup their operating costs. I also heard a horrible story about their food service at Oakland. I won’t expound as this is a story a friend whose D is currently in that campus. Just ask around…
I would disagree that it’s about dorms or business… NU is an academic institution that has many smaller campuses besides Boston. They offer their programs to those who they feel might be interested. Folks can accept or not. Oakland is a new campus opened just this current year for NU students. Not everyone can be accepted to their Boston campus. I appreciate that they are finding ways for more students to benefit from their experiential learning programming.
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my child is a freshman Global Scholar at Oakland campus and the food is great. The campus is beautiful. Dorm rooms are big. And the class sizes are wonderful for intro classes. Way smaller than you’d get in Boston. My child was initially a bit upset about the GS offer during ED last year, but after 1 semester of the program, i can’t imagine a better start to the college experience. For those who want “only Boston.” Then simply decline and move on. I don’t understand the bashing of Northeastern for some wonderful alternative start locations–which, by the way, lots of colleges do (alternative campuses abroad, sattellite campuses, spring start, etc). They get near 100,000 applicants, and probably 75,000 of them could succeed at Northeastern. So be proud of any offer, and if it’s not for you or your child, decline and move on.
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Northeastern only enrolls 3,000 freshmen at its Boston campus. For NU.in, that number is approximately 1,000-1,200. For Oakland, fewer than 300. Oakland’s capacity is limited. London is fewer than a 400.
So NU has about 5,000-5,500 enrolled freshmen. Out of a total of 96,000 (or more this cycle) applications.
Of the 3,000 Boston freshmen, more than 1,500 will come from ED1 and ED2.
While some will get the OPTION to enroll in a campus that isn’t their first choice in ED1, ED2 and EA, and RD, 90,000+ applicants will be rejected from Boston.
There simply is not enough room in Boston. So when it allows a few hundred OTHERWISE QUALIFIED students an alternative enrollment pathway, that should be celebrated.
As others have mentioned, NU has put a lot of money into an already beautiful campus in Oakland. It is building out the CS department. The life sciences are enormously respected there now. It is an awesome choice. NU rewards adventuresome individuals. NU students travel the world. They enter the workforce on co-op at REAL jobs in their sophomore years. It is a school that is not for the academically weak nor intellectually uncurious, nor timid.
And the funny thing, that is probably why its retention rate is top 10 in the country:
- MIT 99%
- UChicago 99%
- Columbia 98%
- Dartmouth 98%
- Duke 98%
- Northeastern 98%
- Northwestern 98%
- Rice 98%
- Northwestern 98%
- Notre Dame 98%
- Brown 97%
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As i have mentioned before Northeastern has never been a place for a student looking to spend four years on campus and have summers free. For the past 15 years NUIn has been an option for many and now Oakland and London. Also, coops are increasingly outside the Boston area in some majors.
Note that the London location also enrolls students directly through a separate application, mostly British and EU students.
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So well said!
Do you submit an SAT score if 1460 superscore (760M 700R)
i think so, 1460 is a good score
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I know Northeastern EA decision release on their website says by February 1st, but in the past when do they normally release decisions?
usually towards the end of January, sometime around 1/25.
Also, does anyone know what the average gpa of Northeastern ED admits are? Here I saw a link that shows the middle 50% of SAT and GPA NEU admits, but would it be slightly for ED applicants?
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A 1460 is right at the 25th percentile. Many have been told not to submit if below the 50th percentile, which is 1500. However, without knowing your GPA, location, rigor, ec’s, etc., in general that score should be a submit.
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isn’t 1490 at the 25th percentile?
Perhaps there is better, more current information, but according to the 2022-2023 common data set the 25th percentile is listed as 1450. This is obviously enrolled students, not admitted. So you might be looking at data from admitted students.
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Hm…I don’t know, to look at your application chances I think looking at the admitted student profile is better than looking at enrolled student profile. Also, the 2022-23 common data set looks at the applicants admitted fall 2022, but the link I sent gives info about applicated admitted to fall 2023.
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Very likely you might be correct. The CDS is not out yet for 2023-2024. With respect to admitted student data versus enrolled, that debate has occurred before. I think we could both agree that the poster’s SAT is on the low end. So their decision to submit should be weighed more carefully than if they had a higher one. A relatively “low” SAT of 1460 is the soul-searching number.
Also, the poster doesn’t specify ED2 or RD. That would make a difference. If ED2, TO might be appropriate if there is a high GPA, rigor, AP’s, good LOR’s, EC’s, etc.
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Curious, have you ever seen any stats on what percentage of folks apply TO now vs with scores? Clearly the scores are going to trend higher if only those with very high stats are submitting…. I’d just be curious if any school reports how many are actually even submitting scores anymore.
2021-2022: 42% of applicants submitted an SAT or ACT score
2022-2023: 44% of applicants submitted an SAT or ACT score
Interestingly, there were almost 5,872 ED applications received for 2022-2023. Northeastern doesn’t provide the percentage of ED students who submitted a test score. Very few colleges do. Those that do provide a breakdown for the entire admission’s pool (ED and RD) (or did) like BC usually have higher admission rates for those who submit scores. In BC’s case, the admission rate for those submitting a score was 25%; those who didn’t, the rate was 10%. Of course this could be skewed by athlete admits, that is some schools might require an SAT score even though the school is test optional. But it does reveal the bump that a presumably good score provides.
As far as looking ahead, NU will be test optional at least through the fall 2026 cycle.
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anyone know when EA decisions will release? Says by February 15th, but I am assuming they will release before then.
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