Yes it is definitely significantly less. From what I understand Tulane had 150 enrolled spring scholars for class of 2027. I don’t have any written confirmation of that but my son is a spring scholar class of 2027 and this is what he had heard.
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My D 24 was admitted to the NU in program. We have heard very positive things about it however, she does not want to spend her first semester abroad.
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Good luck to your D wherever she decides! And congrats on the NUin acceptance. It sounds like a cool program.
The CDS figures are for the Boston campus only. A 30% EA/RD yield is actually quite good. Northeastern has been secretive about its admissions stats in the past several years. I read that even among faculty the figures for acceptance rate by college are not available. Perhaps this was due to criticism the school received when they rose rapidly in the rankings and trumpeted the stats. There is a thread I started here on CC with the acceptance figures for ED I this year. The information was provided by a high school GC which may have violated Northeastern’s rules. That was the most detailed information available in recent cycles.
I have also learned that the CDS shows a 0% four-year graduation rate! That was never true. In the past the four-year rate was very low due to coop patterns but that has now changed due to the emphasis on following the 4 year/2 coop pattern. It appears Northeastern did not bother to compute or publish the current four-year graduation rate. That was a bad decision on their part.
Northeastern has been seeking an adventurous student body in line with its longstanding non-traditional environment. In the past students had to do coop terms away from campus. They still do that but now many have an international experience under their belt even before they come to Boston.
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Can you please provide the link for the thread that you started regarding ED1 this year? Thank you.
If that email is correct, and they offered admission to 1470 EDI applicants to Boston, then that throws many of the above assumptions out the window. Assuming that there will be EDII admits, the Boston campus could see 1,600-1,800 admits for 2,600 spaces.
That would leave fewer than 1,000 admits left for Boston out of the RD round. I don’t think that anyone disagrees that Boston is well-publicized at being capped at 2,600 freshmen.
If there are 400 NU.in admits, then that leaves fewer than 600-700 NU.in admits left in the RD round.
This would be a ramp up in the number of applicants taken ED by a pretty big margin.
Assuming 1600 Boston ED admits, with a yield of 35% (again, most likely too low, but for our purposes, consevative), that means approximately 3,000 applicants out of the remaining 95,000 will be offfered a Boston spot.
With respect to NU.in and Mills, assuming that 500 of the 2,000 spots are taken EDI and EDII, that leaves 1,500 spots. With a combined yield of 15%, that would be 10,000 acceptances to fill the 1500 seats.
The overall acceptance rate would then be 2,000 acceptances EDI and EDII, plus 3,000 RD Boston acceptances, plus 10,000 NU.in/Mills acceptances, you have an acceptance rate of only 15% across all admission programs.
Keep in mind, this assumes a very low yield for NU.in, and assumes that NU.in is maxed out according to the publicized highest cohort of 1170 students. Since then, given the Boston campus bed availability issues, NU has been a more conservative in projecting space available.
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Change in my application portal for ED2. ‘Build your NU Journey’ banner gone.
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does this mean anything?
maybe, maybe not. idec anymore tbh
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but do you know if it means anything, as in do decisions come in soon typically after this is gone?
that’s what people have said in this sub.
Portal updated today for ED2 asking for student W2
FWIW, in my son’s apartment of 6 students with different majors, 5 will graduate in 4 years and one graduated a semester early. I think the students who graduate in 5 years now tend to be engineering students who do 3 co-ops, architecture and maybe pharmacy. No tuition is paid on co-op and students are usually paid.
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Since the portal changed and they removed the banner does it typically mean decisions come out soon?
WOW. Just catching up on here and I looked at your other thread. The number of ED1 admits to Boston is so much higher than the most recent CDS (fall 2022). I also saw people commenting on your other thread that maybe the size of the Boston class is increasing to 3K or even 3500? So big changes. My D24 withdrew EA after ED acceptance elsewhere, but I also have a 2026 who is interested so will be watching this with great interest! Thanks for the info!
After what occurred during 2021, the aspirational goal of 3,500 students at Boston is something I’m sure that Northeastern is working very hard on trying to achieve. However, while they have Dalton Street straightened away, NU is on record saying that any additional beds being added WON’T increase the Boston freshmen class size.
But you are right. The Boston enrollment numbers for this year should be higher than in previous years. The ED applicant pool is now almost 4,000 whereas as recently as 2018 there were only 900 ED applicants.
I think more than the generic increase in applications, that one is the most telling of how attractive Northeastern has become. In 2018 it received 54,000 applications, 900 ED. This year, 98,000 applications, 3850 EDI (unknown as to EDII). A 2x RD increase, but a 4X ED application increase.
It is not hard to see what NU is doing. Attract a robust ED applicant pool, get committed students who look at NU as their “dream” school, and fill out the rest RD.
What occurred in 2021?
How come it doesn’t ask for my password anymore when I’m going to check the portal?
There was an unexpected jump in yield, combined with Covid-induced disruptions with NU.in, that caught Northeatern flat-footed with respect to housing for Boston students. Some of the effects are still being filtered out of the system.