Accepted! (I’m actually crying rn hahah)
Honors with $22k/year
SAT: 1510
GPA: 4.52 W
Major: Computer science and math
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
State: MA
Decent essay, decent recs, really good ECs
Applied for FA: Yes
This is so surreal right now, congrats to everyone who got in! And good luck to everyone who got deferred
@blopblopblop Congrats! Care to share how much in NHRP you received? Thx. My daughter was accepted (not honors) and received $15K in NHRP, but seeing much larger numbers from Honors.
@TomSrOfBoston Thank you for asking. I will tell you that the letters received are the most unclear letters I have seen, so much so that I almost think that I read it wrong. And I am still not 100% sure. So she got 3 letters. First was acceptance letter. 2nd was Financial Aid letter which said Northeastern National Hispanic Schol (cut off) and says $7,500 per semester for a total of $15,000. It also had $5,500 unsub loan. And then a 3rd letter that said Scholarship that in part read, “The Northeastern National Hispanic Scholarship is in the amount of $15,000 for your first year and $7,500 per full semester during your upper-class years”. So at first I said, well this $15,000 must be in addition to the $7,500 x2 on the Financial Aid page. But going back to Finc Aid page, I first of all have no business receiving $15K financial aid. So why does NU put a Scholarship under Financial Aid Award? I thought maybe they gave me this “Fin aid award” and this Scholarship to allocate it across different funds. And, why does the Scholarship letter say $15,000 for the first year (and $7,500 later years) and the finc aid letter say $7,500 each semester?
However, the part that made me think it was just the $15k is that my bill is $55K (without loan). Of course that sentence has a star next to it with no corresponding explanation of what that star is. Could they have not calculated the NHRP scholarship on the financial aid? And if I got a NHRP scholarship for $15k, why would they call a separate financial award the same name? So many questions…
@tbrixton – I thought this was pretty clear. If you applied for FA, you got a letter with your FA (if only the scholarship listed, then you did not qualify beyond the scholarship). If you got the scholarship and a loan, then that is total financial aid. My kid’s FA letter said the same thing. The scholarship specifies just the scholarship which is merit-based, not financial aid. Of course it changes your financial need and would be included in financial aid. For admission, you got an admission letter. For the scholarship, you got a letter showing scholarship. I think the first year is separate partly because the GPA requirement is for the whole first year and afterwards, it’s for an overall average and needs to renew each semester. Just MHO, but I thought it was all pretty clear.
Accepted with a 27 ACT! Completely excited and shocked. Great Financial Aid as well!
Decision: Accepted
ACT: 34 (superscore)
GPA: 4.4/3.9 UW
State: California
Major: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Scholarship: Deans (22k/year)
Race: Asian
Applied for FA: Yes
I was accepted with 30k/yr scholarship… so for schools that meet 100% need, our final asking price sounds about right. However, the amount of GRANT money NEU gave was quite low for our financial status. Does the merit scholarship also factor into the “meet 100% need promise”?
If so, should I talk to NEU about this? I mean, we can still afford it. But I’m suprised we got so little in actual grant money.
@kaibab3 Probably just my wishful thinking… That and expecting the $30k promised by every admissions person i spoke with (and not “up to $30k” but more like, “yes, it’s $30k”)! I guess I also just separate in my head “Financial Aid” with “Merit Scholarship” and thought it should be a separate item that is underlined/separated. But yes, makes sense. This won’t deter me from calling and finding out why no one (at least on this site) other than Honors got more than $15k for NHRP despite the verbal grantees . Maybe my daughter will get $20k from BU and can parlay that for more from NU! But since BU promises $20k, we’ll probably get $10k lol
Decision: Accepted w/ Honors Program and Scholarship!!!
State: California
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Black (Egyptian)
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
SAT: 1480
GPA: 3.83 UW, 4.4 W
Extra Info: Published author in a medial journal, executive editor for newspaper, Writing tutor, Photography, Traveled with National Geographic for photography and environmental science over two summers
Accepted to Honors Program!
SAT: 1480
GPA: 4.2
State: North Carolina
Major: Biology
Applied for financial aid
Not my first choice college, but I’m super excited that I got accepted!
Decision: Accepted!! Got into honors program + $27,000
SAT/ACT: 35
GPA: 3.97/4 UW
State/Country: WA
Major: CS
Did you apply for FA?: Yes
D Deferred in MA
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.6/4.0 UW
State/Country: MA
Major: Engineering
Did you apply for FA?: no
Hooks: sibling is current NU student
Decision: ** Accepted ** with Ujima Global Leader Scholarship!
SAT: 1370
GPA: 3.72uw
State/Country: Illinois
Major: Civil Engineering
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Did you apply for FA?: Yes, but have not received yet (document was missing)
So is it safe to say that most people either got accepted or deferred
did anyone get denied?? I haven’t heard anyone that did
My son was accepted!
Decision: Accepted into Honors program with 27K per year Honors Scholarship
SAT/ACT: 35
GPA: 3.85UW 4.4W
State/Country: TN
Major: Explore
Did you apply for FA?: No
Decision: Accepted for N.U.in Program
ACT: 33
GPA: 3.77
State: Utah
Major: Music Industry
Ethnicity: White
Did you apply for FA? No
Not sure how I feel about going abroad for the first semester of my college career and then starting at the Boston campus in Jan 2020.
Yes. Not sure how I feel about it.
@lzd1234 there were a couple in the first waves who said they were denied but others could have not posted because they were upset idk
Im just wondering if northeastern is taking on Michigan’s tactics of accepting people they know will go to their school and then deferring everyone else to then see who will withdraw there applications to then see who will really want to go in their regular decision as a way to up their competitiveness (hopefully this makes sense)
Daughter Accepted
SAT/ACT: 33
GPA: 3.85 UW/4.25 W
If you applied for FA: Yes
Home State / Country: CA
Major: Psychology
ECs: Sports, Leadership, and work
Deans Scholarship: $14,000/year