Northeastern University - Merit Scholarship -

JuniorMint
Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:11:45 +0000

If the application is truly flawless, then send a letter of interest in February if you suspect Tuft’s Syndrome. However, this is an isolated case. Northeastern is not denying (or deferring for that matter) droves of tippy-top applicants, nor is it known for yield-protection. It is not Tufts, and in regards to its rankings climb, I would think perfecting its retention rate and increasing its SAT percentiles with top students would be a higher priority than yield numbers, important though they may be.

I cannot say with certainty, but I would assume that Northeastern has a relatively low number of 2300+ applicants and, even if they all decided not to enroll, the yield number would not be changed by more than 1 percentile.

Especially since this is an isolated case, one student is not going to single-handedly cluster-bomb Northeastern’s yield. They have no reason to not admit him in particular.

By the way, I don’t think Northeastern has a supplemental essay on the Common App, so there is no place for a name mix-up.