<p>WellChrisso620, </p>
<p>I don’t think I would consider Northeastern the safty in that equasion. Northeastern is now more selective than Boston University. Plus I would guess that NEU, BC, BU is a typical combination they see. It’s a benefit to tell them that Northeastern is your first choice because they are more likley to accept you if they are confident you will enroll, it makes thier yield look better.</p>
<p>Maybe you could write admissions a type of cover letter, or follow-up (since you already sent in your application) that states Northeastern is your FIRST choice for undergraduate study. You don’t want to rule out the other schools completely because I think this could affect your financial aid. Once your accepted this is thier bargaining tool to get you to enroll, and if they know your a shoe in, why not give that financial aid to someone who is on the fence about enrolling? </p>
<p>Explain in the “Cover Letter” why you choose Political Science as a major and what you want to do with it, and why you feel Northeasterns “Cooperative approach to learning” would benefit you. You know, kind of like filler, but you also get across the main point that Northeastern is option #1.</p>
<p>Your application is probably not processed yet so that follow-up could be tossed in with your whole packet and viewed at the same time they are reviewing your application. I had the oppertunity to see how thier filing works when I went there; it seems that everything corresponding to your social security number that gets mailed to them gets tossed in this one big folder and stays there until it is time to review the application.</p>
<p>As far as sending in the application early, on the record they say that they review them all at the same time, but someone on another board said that it probably doesn’t work like that in reality. It would be like the IRS waiting till everybody filed to start work. I think at certain increments like every other week or something the applications get checked to see if they are “Complete” and if so they are given to an adcom that handles students based on thier last name like “m-p” or something, but this is completly speculitive.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Like I said any other questions don’t hesitate, I was/am completely obssesive when it came to the whole process, so hopefully I can pass on what I picked up!</p>