Why did I not get in?

rsmith1234
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:12:04 +0000

Northeastern University had over 40,000 applicants. They do not look at every applicant in minute detail and attempt to decipher everything about them. In reality, the admissions office probably breezes through the applications, spending a maximum of only a mere couple minutes per application. And beware, there are many different admissions officers, and although they try to all stay within the same boundaries of deciding acceptances/rejections, some will be more drawn to certain aspects of people than others. There is a big luck factor in college decisions. Granted, if you have exceedingly high stats (or low) then it’s different, but luck does indeed play a role. So you might have gotten unlucky… But so did tens of thousands of other NU hopefuls. You just have to move on. Complaining why you didn’t get in isn’t going to help.