So likely I’ll recieve the same grant even after FAFSA is processed?
Likely but cannot be guaranteed.
last year it came out feb 14. the years before that it came out febuary 7th week. i think it will be next week because there hasn’t been any ‘weird’ changes to the portal, as it has for ed1 and ea. moreover, i think it’s best to go from last week’s decisions time bc the application volume is similar to this the most
Son admitted EA.
Did anyone receive an email today with an “Update” to their Financial Aid award? Upon logging in and downloading the “Award Letter” it turns out to be a request for the CSS and other financial aid documents – without any mention of merit, and even though we said we weren’t applying for financial aid (which the letter does acknowledge). Confused, and TIA.
Yes my daughter got her financial aid package. She has to decide now between Northeastern and WPI. 15k cheaper for Northeastern. But, she really has her heart set on WPI.
Does anyone know how many students are admitted to the various alternate enrollment opportunities: Oakland, NU in, Global Scholars, and London scholars? I know the Boston numbers are reported in CDS and the acceptance rate for that campus is single digit (I think 6-7%). But it seems like most of the people I know who are admitted to Northeastern are admitted to the alternate enrollment programs. I know they are smaller programs but their yield must be very low because it seems like many people are admitted. Wondering…is the data on admission to these programs reported anywhere?
D24 got that today as well. I took it as them saying, you are not getting any merit, sure you don’t want to try for some need-based?
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Yes S24 received this email also.
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S24 also received the same email and discovered a letter in the Financial Aid Award section stating that he is not eligible for a need-based scholarship based on his CSS profile.
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@bronzerfish and @Bruno99
I like those emails a lot more when the “Award Update” is actually an award! Thanks for commenting too 
I have not seen it anywhere and have wondered when Northeastern will start reporting it.
You can make a very educated guess based on past news articles and press releases.
Boston campus enrolls 2,500 freshmen.
NU.in has approximately 1,000-1,200 freshmen
NU Oakland approximately 250-400 freshmen.
Global Scholars approximately 300-400
NU’s total freshmen cohort across all campuses is approximately 4,600
I’ve seen these numbers, but I don’t know how to use them to estimate the number of students admitted to campuses other than Boston. My kids’ high school gets about 10 students admitted to Northeastern every year, but 9 or 10 of those are admitted to campuses other than Boston. Over the last 5 years we have had more than 40 students admitted to Northeastern and only 1 attend (in Boston). So the yield from our school is zero for campuses other than Boston. So if they have 1500-2000 freshmen at other campuses, is it possible they actually admit tens of thousands of students to yield that number? I know they get 90K+ applications a year.
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No. More than 20% of applicants actually request NU.in as their first choice. Northeastern’s yield has been climbing, so there isn’t the need to admit tens of thousand. My guess says a yield of 25% for NU.in overall, so maybe 4,500-5,000 NU.in admits. Oakland/Mills and Global Scholars, maybe another 3,000. If you ballpark 1,000 EDI and EDII admits, that leaves only 3,500 spots to fill out of 95,000 applications.
In the “olden” days, NU.in was a backdoor way in. That has been closed for a while now. As for why NU doesn’t disclose the hard data, probably same reason BU doesn’t disclose their spring admit rates, Tulane, Emory, Hamilton, NYU, etc. The mystery makes the overall acceptance rate more sexy, undoubtedly.
Tulane enrolled 75 spring scholars in the class of 2027 so the number is a very small fraction of their total class. Whereas Northeastern enrolled almost half their class at other campuses so the other pathways are far more important. For my D24, she loved it when she visited. When she saw the high acceptance rate to Northeastern from our school she was seriously considering ED (or ED2) but she only wanted Boston due to a specific interest only available there. Her school counselor advised her that she was very unlikely to get in to Boston, which was not that obvious when looking at our Naviance data.
I wasn’t familiar with the stat you mentioned that 20 percent of applicants request NUin. That’s interesting and I can definitely see how some of these international programs would be appealing to a lot of kids. I’m not sure how you are guessing the yield for NU.in or the other campuses though. That’s what I’m curious about because the acceptance rate is so (relatively) high these programs at our school and the yield is practically zero.
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I think your anecodotal information gleaned from your school is wrongly interpreted by you that the acceptance rate is so high.
It’s just math and yield. 98,000 applications. 2500 Boston spots. 1,000 are EDI or EDII.
1,500 Boston spots, with a yield of 35%, 4,500 plus the 1,000 accepted ED. Total acceptances for Boston 5,500.
The remaining 2,000 spots (which in fairness is probably a bit lower than that), but for our purposes: NU.in 20% select as first choice in EDI or EDII, 200, enroll. Leaving 800 or so NU.in spots to fill. Even if the yield is 15%, 5,333 admits for Nu.in.
Oakland/Mills and Global Scholars, assuming no EDI or EDII applicants chose it (unlikely) and a yield of 10% (absurdly low), 8,000 admissions offered.
Grand total of 5,500 Boston, 5,333 NU.in, 8,000 Global Scholars/Mills, you get 18,000 offers of admission. or an acceptance rate of 19%.
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Wow, thanks for that breakdown! What about the acceptance rate for London?
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Ha Ha. I’m not wrongly interpreting that there a high acceptance rate. I’m asking if anyone knows what the acceptance rate is, particularly since the acceptance rate and yield from my own school is clearly not the norm.
I can do the math from the CDS, but I believe that only refers to Boston campus. I’m not sure of that, but that is what other posters have said and the math seems to make sense that CDS is only reporting Boston.
According to most current 2022-2023 CDS there are 91,000 applicants. 6,191 accepted students (in Boston) of which 890 were ED and 5,301 were RD. So the acceptance rate in Boston that year was 6,191/91,000 = 6.8%
The yield in Boston was 2519/6191 = 40.7%
However, if the ED yield was 100 percent, then the yield among RD was
(2519 -890)/(6191-(890) = 30.7%
What I don’t believe is reported in the CDS or anywhere that I know of, is analogous numbers for the other entrance pathways. If the yield numbers for the alternate pathways is what you assume (which I don’t think is absurdly low at all…but I don’t actually know.) Then there would be 13,000+ admits to other programs in addition to the 6,000+ admits to Boston, or a total of nearly 20,000 of the 91,000. And if your guesses at yield are too high (again, I’m asking if this is actually reported anywhere but I don’t think it is) then the number of admits could be even higher, which is what led me to ask - wow, do they actually accept tens of thousands into Northeastern? I never knew that and it seems like they do. It’s just that most acceptances - probably at least 2/3 of those accepted, according to your guesstimates, are accepted to campuses other than Boston. When you think of it in those terms - most students admitted to Northeastern are not admitted to Boston - it is surprising and definitely affected my D application strategy.
Tulane enrolled more than 75 spring scholars in the class of 2027. There were over 65 alone in Rome with at least 10 in London and then some in Paris and some that didn’t even go abroad. So I don’t think your numbers for Tulane are accurate.
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Thanks! The 75 number was reported by the Tulane Hullaballoo. But it reads like it was prospective so could be wrong? I’m not sure where Tulane reports it officially. And I’m sure most people accepted as spring scholars don’t accept so I’m sure they admit quite a few more than that. But even so, it’s a small part of the class whereas it appears that the majority of people admitted to Northeastern are admitted to campuses outside Boston. That just kind of blows my mind.
Spring Scholar program to admit fewer students • The Tulane Hullabaloo.