<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm a current freshman at Northeastern in the Honors Program and an undeclared major. I've had a pretty good semester, if you have any questions about NEU please ask away!</p>
<p>Why does you location have Cornell?</p>
<p>What is social life like? How would you describe NEU culture? What classes are you taking?</p>
<p>Do you like the honors program? I was invited to join, but I honestly have no idea if I should do it.</p>
<p>How is life at international village? From my understanding, all honors students live here</p>
<p>I was accepted into the honors program and although living in IV seems wonderful I am worried that I will not be able to bond very much with my floor mates like other people in the regular freshman dorms and I will not be able to socialize as much as I would like. What is your take on this? Is it easy for honors students to make friends (even close friends) with people not in honors?</p>
<p>Do people hang out with kids from harvard, BU, MIT, or BC??? Like go to other schools’ tailgates, football games, homecoming that kinda stuff??</p>
<p>How often do students receive substantial scholarships?</p>
<p>I would say Northeastern is generous with merit aid- I applied Early Action and if you go to the results thread most of the accepted students received some sort of merit aid.</p>
<p>I think the lowest was 5,000 or 10,000 and the highest was 20,000 and then there are a few people that get into Torch Scholars(full ride) and University Scholars(full tuition.) Good luck!</p>
<p>don’t mean to hijack the thread but I am also a current Northeastern student!!
I’m in my third year and I can give some insight to the Northeastern social life. </p>
<p>let me shorten your thoughts for you: if you think NU lacks a social life, you’re very wrong. NU is a very diverse school. as a freshman I guarantee there will be something to do every weekend. we do attend other people’s parties, but ocassionally throw our own (sports teams parties are popular, as are off campus parties).
as for interacting with people from other schools, it’s all about what friends you have. no, we don’t waltz over to BU or MCPHS and let ourselves in to make friends. if you meet people from Harvard, BC, MIT, etc. and stay friends with them, then you have a connection to that college. but no, we don’t typically attend other school’s games and stuff. a few people do, but that’s probably because they’re friends do.
Again, the social life at Northeastern is what you make of it. it completely depends on your group of friends-- if you’re a sporty group, if you like frats, if you like going clubbing with rich international students, if you’re a dorm room pothead (don’t do that. I know someone who got expelled).
but there is never nothing to do. as a freshman, hang out on campus and do stupid freshman things like hot and crowded parties. if thats not your thing- you’re in Boston. someone will invite you somewhere. I’ve met friends in the Boston commons only to find out they go to nu for example.</p>
<p>Anyone know how the pharmD program is like and its co-op? Do most students have jobs?</p>
<p>If you want to, are you allowed to dorm there for all 4 yrs?</p>
<p>can someone please help me! I cant remember my username for the MyNEU account…did they assign us a username like firstname, lastname or did we choose our own?</p>
<p>nevermind i found it, for anyone wondering its lastname.[first initial]</p>
<p>momo freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus. It’s done by lottery though (except for freshmen, which is assigned to you based on when you get your deposits in and what you request, or if you’re in honors, etc) but upperclassmen are not guaranteed lottery numbers. Many choose to move off campus anyway, as there are so many off campus buildings intermingled with the ones that are owned by Northeastern. However, hopefully Northeastern’s plan to increase on campus housing space (renovations in the YMCA may help) will be successful. But I wouldn’t make a decision to attend or not to attend based on this - aside from how it’s paid, much of the off campus housing is very similar to the on-campus for older students.</p>
<p>Can I get into the Honors program for sophomore year after doing super well in freshman year?</p>
<p>You need a 3.8 gpa to transfer into Honors. I won’t lie to you-- for someone in a hard program, this is very difficult to do. We don’t have an A+, so an A is 4.0 and A- is 3.667. Assuming you do a standard schedule (four 4-credit classes), that’s a MINIMUM of two A grades. If you get lower than an A-, you’re looking at compensating with another A.</p>
<p>Don’t mean to be discouraging. But if you’re thinking, “I’ll only go here because I want honors, and I’m sure I can just get it next year” (not that I’d agreed with that logic at all), then you might want to reconsider.</p>
<p>@wilberry228 </p>
<p>Thanks for the info! I was just curious because NEU’s website didn’t have too much details regarding housing. It seemed a bit vague to me anyways.</p>
<p>Is living off campus cheaper than dorming (which costs $13K-14K/yr I think)? I know that Boston is an expensive place to live. And there are apartments owned by NEU? How much are those?</p>
<p>dorms range from 3200-6400. most people pay between 4-5.5k a semester (4 months) for on campus dorms. I live off campus, a 12
minute walk from Northeastern. I pay on the low end of what the dorms pay (for the super economy type dorms) for an apartment that is as nice as the nicest, new dorms. </p>
<p>only this year did they make sophomores live on campus as well as freshman, by the way! I knew people who moved off campus after freshman spring because they didn’t like having an RA, getting swiped in, etc.</p>
<p>EDIT: any “apartments” owned by Northeastern are dorms. I lived in 319 Huntington last year, an apt building Northeastern bought and made dorms.</p>