hi al,

i’m sorry to hear that your daughter was rejected, but thank you so much for sharing this information and your perspective! 🙂

i feel your pain, bob, since i started my bachelor’s degree as a community college transfer student. i also feel molly’s pain in writing this article, though. i’ve written several similar admissions articles here on the hs blog myself. these articles are long and require a good deal of research, and it can be hard to work in proper support for every type of student (transfer, international, traditional, non-traditional, etc….)

have no fear, though! i can give you some transfer student stats here in the comments.

let’s start with northeastern transfer student gpa. however, currently, the average gpa of accepted northeastern transfer students is 3.6. so you’ll want your gpa to be close to that or higher than that if you want to stand out as a transfer applicant.

next, let’s talk about act and sat scores for northeastern’s transfer students. if you’re transferring with more than 24 credits from another college or university, you don’t need to submit act or sat scores. transfer students also don’t need to submit those test scores if they finished high school more than 5 years ago, or have a high school diploma form a foreign country. however, if you have fewer than 24 transfer credits and a relatively recent american hs diploma, northeastern will want either an sat or act score report. in that case, they’ll hold you to the same score standards as any incoming freshman (see molly’s notes on this in the article above).

so we’ve covered gpa and test scores (when test scores are actually needed). but what about acceptance rate? here, there’s some good news. northeastern university currently lists an acceptance rate of 32% for transfer students. this means that being a transfer student gives you better odds than being an incoming freshman. as you can see in molly’s post above, incoming freshmen have an acceptance rate of just 27%.

i hope all this helps, bob! my sources for this are as follows:

https://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/northeastern-transfer-at-a-glance.pdf
https://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/application-information/transfer-admissions/