<p>I was accepted EA with a pretty good scholarship of 20000/yr, making Northeastern one of my top choices right now. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get into the honors college though, and a friend who didn't get in to honors either said he was going to call the school and try to appeal the decision. This sounds a bit strange to me, as I'm under the impression they review your application pretty thoroughly the first time, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried this or heard of this? </p>
<p>If it's something that's actually done I'd be interested as it would be great to be in the program, but I don't want to start off with the school on the wrong foot if its something they frown upon. After all, I did only hear about this from one person.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you if it works or not, since I was accepted EA as well, but over this college process I have spoken to numerous people, and if you want to appeal a decision, it may be best to do it in writing. If you call, the person on the other end will most likely give you a canned answer of “no there is no way to change it but you can apply after your freshman year.” If you send a letter to your admission’s counselor then maybe that will help. I’ve heard that the honors program doesn’t do much- it’s only a name thing, and apparently (don’t quote me) the only real differences are that freshmen get to live in IV and there are some honors classes/seminars that are smaller.) Again, don’t quote me, but that is just whaT I’ve heard when I was looking into whether or not I should accept the spot in the honors program. But, from what I’ve read on the website, only the top 10 percent of all applicants get admitted to the honors program, so I think the admissions committee spaces that out between EA and RD so I don’t think an appeal would be possible, but it never hurts to try- they can’t take back scholarship money or an acceptance just for asking a question. Good luck! And don’t stress. Obviously you were an amazing applicant if you were accepted w/ 20,000 Dollars a year.</p>
<p>I don’t think they would change it - however you can apply to be in honors after your first freshman semester. You need to fill out an application and have an 3.8 gpa from your first semester. I don’t think you will be able to move into IV at that point (and you probably would not want to leave your roommates mid-freshman year like that) but you can have honors housing for sophomore year and beyond. My daughter has a friend who was just admitted after first semester. There are definitely other advantages to honors - my daughter has honors sections for classes where there are only 19 kids instead of the 200 in the non-honors sections.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, that’s more or less what I suspected. I’ll think about sending something in writing, but more likely I’ll just try to transfer in if I’m interested next year. I don’t think it’s an enormous deal either in terms of the educational experience, which after all is the most important thing, but I’ve talked two a couple of people who were admitted in the past couple of years and there seem to be some nice perks. Apparently the dorms are miles nicer than the average ones.</p>
<p>I did this successfully, for what it’s worth. It wasn’t something they advertised, but I eventually emailed the right person with a little speech about myself and why I deserved to be in the program, and they let me in.</p>
<p>You can also apply to the Honors Program later on. Which might actually be the better choice, since then you need fewer honors courses to get the same “honors course distinction.”</p>