@vandyeyes and @IABooks Your children’s FASFAs are not connected. All FAFSA does is qualify a student for federal aid: federal student loans, Pell, etc. All students can take out federal loans. Pell is based on income. Some schools provide institutional aid based on FAFSA, but that aid is strictly connected to that single yr’s FAFSA form and the amt can change each yr as your new FAFSA is filled out.
Northeastern Application History
Avg Accepted GPA (4.35/4.0 w 3.76/4.0 uw)
Avg Accpeted ACT: 32
Class Apply Admit Enroll
2016 12 3 0
2015 17 10 1
2014 17 6 1
2013 20 10 2
2012 12 6 0
2011 9 6 1
2009 11 7 1
If any of you are waiting for writing scores on the ACT, my daughter’s just came in!
I’m not sure if you have this issue in Naviance but for some of the colleges it doesn’t have the link for ‘School Stats’ but at least for me you can click the School Stats from another college and then change the URL with the CID of the school you want to see.
Northeastern from our California public:
Accepted 40/62 (5 enrolled)
Avg Accepted GPA: 4.47/4.0 w (not super high for our school, no way to see unweighted average)
Avg Accepted SAT: 1991/2400, 1342/1600 CR+M
Avg Accepted ACT: 31
Class Apply Admit Enroll
2016 9 5 2
2015 9 3 0
2014 14 11 1
2013 10 6 1
2012 9 5 0
2011 8 8 1
2010 3 2 0
@mamaedefamilia …awesome!
We would just be happy with any type of score report!
Still with nothing here. >:P
This is one of the reasons I was given 5 years ago to fill out the FAFSA for my D12. The other reason I was told is you want to fill it out if you want any of the loan option. And sometimes even if you don't qualify for aid, the student may still qualify for work-study. My DD only got some loans offered to her which we didn't take, and one school did offer work-study. And I'm not 100% sure but some schools need the FAFSA to do any Aide package even if it's only Merit Aide.
I will fill out the FAFSA for my son even though we don’t expect him to qualify for any need based aide. And it’s doubtful he will get any Merit Aide since his only safety schools are state schools that only had out need based Aide.
Another CA public for Northeastern
Accepted UW GPA: 3.66
SAT: 1367/2039
ACT: 31
Over 6 year period, avg 40 apply, avg 22 accepted, avg 3 enroll
For comparison, the average accepted GPA at 6 UCs ranged from 3.74-3.9 with the lowest SAT average > 2070.
@thermom wrote
It’s so timely that you wrote this, because my daughter is finding the opposite to be true for her. She just finished two tours at UMDCP, (the regular one and the cs specific), and after that tour, U Richmond came off of her list because she said “I realized I like a buzzy, multi-culti atmosphere”, and U Richmond just wasn’t buzzy enough or diverse enough for her. She’s really a type A outgoing, ambitious kid, and once she had a chance to sleep on yesterday’s tour at UR, she realized it was “too easygoing” for her.
She liked UMD, except for the 2 hours of walking in 90 degree weather-the fact that she didn’t quit given that she HATES the heat, and walking, and the campus was huge was significant. She said it was very culturally diverse and the campus was interesting (and hot, did I mention she cursed the heat a few times?), and that the CS department had a lot to offer in her particular area of interest.
@dfbdfb wrote
Amen. What I wouldn’t give for a decent scattergraph or two.
QoTD (although this may be yesterday’s) yes we’re filling out the fafsa and the css. We will probably end up full pay, though. Hence, merit. There’s no reason not to do it, and some good “CYA” reasons to do so.
I just sent an email to the head GC asking them if my D made the NMSF because there’s been not a peep from them about it. However, it was at 4 pm on a friday before fall break, so I’m not holding my breath.
Oh, which reminds me, @MichiganGeorgia my close friend whose daughter goes to the other school in our county got the SAME schpiel about EA in state kids not needing to do essays or letters of recommendations for UGA or Tech. They had a woman from UGA talking about it. So…weird…
@carachel2 My sympathies! We waited a very long time for the SAT and SAT subject tests and are very familiar with how that feels!
I went on to the ACT site to order score reports for my daughter so they would be in the queue when her writing scores were released and I was so surprised to see them in her account. She did well, too, at least I think she did. Now that they’ve changed the scoring format from 36 to 12, it will be interesting to see what kind of essay scores get reported here.
And the ACT scores are on their way!
@RightCoaster Our Naviance is much like your Naviance for Northeastern. 2013-2016 Ave gpa u/w 3.7 and ACT 30… One kid was waitlisted with a 31, and another declined w/ a 31 and 3.5gpa. Everyone else w/ a 31 or high has been accepted and the vast majority of kids w/ a 30 ACT have been accepted.
Is there anyone here with Naviance that would want to look up U0fRichmond for me? We are in a fairly large good public HS but not crazy competitive. Most strong students just go the Flagship. I have no access to naviance and Richmond is one I am really unsure of.
Or @MotherOfDragons do have any sense of what you D thought about the AO presentation on the tour? …sometimes that can be telling.
Looking at Northeastern on our Naviance graph, it appears that with 2 exceptions, everyone with a 1300 or higher SAT was accepted regardless of GPA and same for 32 ACT. The two that didn’t fit the pattern had 26 ACT and way sub 4.0 GPAs so I’m betting athletes.
(All our GPAs are weighted and the range of acceptances for the non-outliers was 3.8 to 4.6).
Also note that no ACT 30s or 31s applied.
@stlarenas she said at UR that the girl giving the tour knew everyone and that everyone knew the girl, and people waved to her and were friendly. She didn’t have a negative sense of her, thought she was fine-it was also the same girl that did the “informational interview” beforehand, so she felt like some of the info got covered twice.
On the other hand, she really didn’t like the first tour guide at UMD, but reserved judgement until the second tour of the CS stuff, which went a lot better and she clicked with that girl. She said after having done 6 tours that there seems to be a certain “type” of kid, regardless of school, that likes to lead the general tours.
Wow, U Richmond is way harder to get in than I thought. At least that’s what the data shows from our Naviance:
Here you go:
Accepted: All kids on graph with 4.5 GPA and 30 ACT. If kid is under 4.5 and 30 all waitlisted and a few rejected.
SAT: need 4.5 GPA and 1350 SAT to get in from our school.
At our school if you have 4.5 and above you are really cranking out the AP classes and getting solid scores every term. 5.0 is an A in AP class, 4.5 is an A for Honors level class for reference.
Between 7-9 kids apply to Richmond every year, 1 accepted, only 1 attending in the last 10 years. I’m really surprised with the avg GPA from the kids applying there. The kids applying to the Ivy’s must use Richmond as a safety around here.
I would not say it’s super popular around here.
^^Yeah it’s a good school, it just wasn’t a good fit for D.
WA Public HS here so limited data on Northeastern and Richmond!
Northeastern, all RD
Accepted UW GPA: 3.79
SAT: 1277/1897
ACT: 31
Class Apply Admit Enroll
2016 1 0 0
2015 3 1 1
2014 2 2 0
Richmond, ED (or EA, can’t tell)
Class Apply Admit Enroll
2015 1 1 1
clearly we don’t block single data points! However it will not show test scores on the one individual, only the UW GPA of 3.65
@HiToWaMom they finally posted our Commended kids. We did better there (16) but I am really surprised that some of those kids didn’t make SF.
From our Naviance data (300 students per grade, we are historically a SAT school, so ACT scores might not be as representative):
** Northestearn **
Graph: All green dots above avg GPA and SAT
RD: 41/84 (49%) Avg GPA (weighted): 4.17. SAT (2400): 1985 ACT: 30
Early: 62/100 (62%) Avg GPA (weighted): 4.13. SAT (2400): 1959 ACT: 30
** Richmond **
Graph: green dots for everyone above GPA > 4.5 or SAT > 2200
RD: 8/51 (16%) Avg GPA (weighted): 4.55. SAT (2400): 2110 ACT: 29
Early: 3/7 (43%) Avg GPA (weighted): 3.84. SAT (2400): 1960 ACT: 29 (suspect athletes)
Wow, I leave for a few days and miss over 400 posts! I’m not going to go back to read them all, but I’ll skim back a few pages.
Just checking in to say I’m back. I’m hanging out with D2 in the hospital as she has her first infusion. Fortunately, she seems to be having no side effects so the worst of it is the boredom. (She forgot earbuds.)
Oh, and one school-related note: we turned in transcript requests (and money) for UA and UA-H over a month ago. Neither school has received them, so we checked with the GC office. They say they have no record of the request. Grrrr
My S17, as well as both parents, felt the magic of the elusive “fit” at a particular school earlier this summer, a school that we all were visiting for the second time, essentially to confirm that first impressions the year prior weren’t spurious. Everything was perfect…again…the feel, the look, the students, the tour (again) and info session (again). Perfect.
Perfect, that is, until just as we were readying to leave I received a call letting me know that the biopsy I’d had earlier in the week was positive for cancer. Ouch…
So despite the fruitful labor and intensity of this application process for S17, there has been a higher focus of concern for me and our family, culminating in a 5 hour (knock me on my butt) surgery a couple weeks ago.
So it is, that TODAY my last drain was removed and my strength continues to return, and most happily, TODAY my pathology came back showing clear margins of resection and all 11 lymph nodes clean. Praise God!
Thus, TODAY, with some discussion, we all agreed it was the destined time for S17 to push the ED button for this same institution. So, whether it works out for S17’s admission or not, the school will no longer be unjustly linked only with the beginning of my cancer, but hopefully also its end.
A final signal that the time was right for S17 to let it fly TODAY was that the only college mailing received at the post office TODAY was from THE school.
So TODAY, I am grateful for having turned a corner, grateful that my S17 can move on to focus on giving due diligence to the few remaining apps, and grateful for having CC to help pass the recent long hours of rest and recovery…my eyes and my fingers have been fine!..can’t speak to the mind…seems ok, right?