Teacher Rec due date for EA

neuchimie
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:25:07 +0000

I don’t think it’s so simple to say “regular admission is much more competitive”. Certainly more people apply RD than EA (although it’s still a lot for EA). But EA students tend to have higher grades, scores and better ecs than the bulk of the RD students. So your competition for EA is probably higher than for RD.

That being said, if you are good enough to get in for RD but not EA, then they’ll just defer you. And by the time RD rolls around, there are a lot of places already gone. So you should apply EA.

Also- people might want to be cautioned this year. Last year Northeastern let in too many students, and it messed up everything (housing, dining, classrooms, professors…). They weren’t expecting so many students to say yes. So my guess is that they are going to let in less students this year.