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<li> Freshman are really spread out! I think the only dorm that doesn’t have as many freshmen is Bragaw because the rooms are pretty nice.<br></li>
<li> I think they are both really unique, but you have to take the location into account. None of my classes are by North so I wouldn’t want to live there, but if you’re in CHASS or you don’t want to eat at a Dining Hall, North is a good option. I hear Avent Ferry’s rooms are awesome but I’ve never been there.</li>
<li> I prefer suite-style because I like having a smaller group of close friends, but you’ll meet as many people as you want whether you live hall or suite style.</li>
<li> Yes, they are separable. I have a single right now because my roommate moved out so I have both of the beds down. One is my bed and one is the couch for when my friends come over and play PS2.</li>
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<p>Thanks. I am a Poli Sci Major, so do people in CHASS generally live in North because of the proximity? Also, what are the popular resident halls… In other words, which ones are first taken on the housing forms? I’m thinking North might be the place for me.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help! I really appreciate it</p>
<p>Accidentally posted on the wrong forum!</p>
<p>mjk, remember that as a freshman you will be taking a wide variety of general ed. requirements. So your freshman classes will be spread all over campus rather than clustered on east campus in CHASS classrooms. Also remember that North is not really close to any of the other dorms (think central campus) with a large freshman population.</p>
<p>**sorry nc statefreshman…didn’t mean to hijack your thread.</p>
<p>Packmom, </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. When I went to an informational tour at the school, they stressed the students to select the major they really want to study- because they would be stuck with those classes for a year… I must have interpreted this incorrectly, though. I’m weighing the upsides and downsides of North and halls on central campus. Right now, I’m Bowen and Metcalf are my top 2</p>
<p>Hello ncstatefreshman: Thanks for the assistance! My son was accepted and we’ve resigtered for housing (the “Tri-towers”)/ Bowen, Metcalf, Carrol. Hope that was a good choice. He wants to be in the middle of everything. </p>
<p>Any thoughts /insights regarding meal plans? I would certainly want to ensure he has the opportunity have Breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday…but I just can’t picture him going to the dining hall three times a day. He’s like a bowl of cereal breakfast, sandwich /fruit for lunch, hot pocket for dinner kind of guy.</p>
<p>Mudgedatch:</p>
<p>I personally have a freedom plan so I can swipe into a dining hall every 30 minutes and I can use 10 equivalencies (Creamery, Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A, Brickyard Pizza, etc) a week. I really like it because I’m never stressed about spacing out my meals during the week and I can pop into the dining hall for a piece of fruit or a bagel if I’m eating with friends in an hour but I need food NOW.</p>
<p>If you don’t see your son eating in the dining hall a lot because he wants to buy hot pockets and cereal/milk to keep in his room, then by all means get a smaller meal plan. I know a lot of people that are on the 10 and 12 meal plan a week and they just eat out more than I do. I have a car on campus but don’t like keeping food in my room so I eat almost exclusively at the dining hall except for a meal out once or twice a week. </p>
<p>He also has a trial period (I think it’s until mid-September for the fall semester) where he can try out a meal plan and change it if it’s too much or too little.</p>
<p>mjkcarolina4,</p>
<p>PackMom basically said everything I needed to. North Hall is a good location for CHASS but you probably won’t be taking more than one major-specific class your fall semester. I think on the registrar’s website you can look up curriculum plans for your major.</p>
<p>This ([Political</a> Science (BA) | Office of Undergraduate Courses & Curricula](<a href=“Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards”>Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards)) is the layout for a BA in Political Science but if you’re doing a BS or a concentration, I found it by googling “NCSU Political Science Curriculum”.</p>
<p>Thanks ncstatefreshman! I’m now leaning toward the freedom plan. I figure for the small different in costs it’ll be worth him not having to keep up with weekly quotas or burning through too many “Dining Dollars”.</p>
<p>If you want to have him have a freedom plan because you don’t want your son to use too many Dining Dollars, that might not matter. I use my Dining Dollars if I go over equivalency (use more than 6.25 at lunch or dinner), at vending machines, or if I stop by the C-Store for a snack or soda.</p>
<p>If your son was planning on using Dining Dollars in the dining hall as he ran out of meals each week, then he would use a lot. But in my experience, the number of meals I’m eating doesn’t correlate with how many DD I use. They are, in my eyes, two different types of transaction for two different types of thing.</p>
<p>Are you familiar with any scholarships for business or leadership for an in-state high school student?</p>
<p>I’m very involved with extra curricular activities including Boy Scouts, TSA, SGA, attended leadership conferences, class President, NC House Page program.</p>
<p>Academically I’m about 45 out of 235 and have about a 3.7 GPA.</p>
<p>NVM0905:</p>
<p>I’m not aware of any scholarships for business majors but that does not mean they don’t exist! This page ([NCSU</a> Scholarships](<a href=“Office of Finance & Administration”>Office of Finance & Administration)) has a list of outside donors so students can look into this.</p>
<p>This page ([North</a> Carolina State University :: Scholarships and Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.ncsu.edu/future-students/can-i-afford-it/financial-aid/]North”>http://www.ncsu.edu/future-students/can-i-afford-it/financial-aid/)) says that there are scholarships through the different departments (under Individual College Scholarships) so I would check there first!</p>
<p>This page has all the information you would want about scholarships for incoming high-school students ([North</a> Carolina State University :: Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www7.acs.ncsu.edu/financial_aid/schphs.html]North”>http://www7.acs.ncsu.edu/financial_aid/schphs.html)).</p>
<p>I’m sorry I couldn’t help more than this.</p>
<p>thankyou for your kind offer ncstatefreshman. I have been accepted for engineering fall term. I wanted ask you about the dual degree progams for engineering offered at nc state.what is the qualifications for a dual degree program? what are the courses offered? how much extra will I have to pay for a dual degree?</p>
<p>ncstateenggfall,</p>
<p>I honestly haven’t heard anything about the dual degree programs. Is this different than double majoring? If it is the same thing, then it does not cost extra to double major unless you take summer classes and pay summer tuition as well. </p>
<p>The courses offered will depend on what two degrees you are pursuing, as I think as long as you’re not under academic probation you can get two degrees.</p>
<p>Hello again ncstatefreshman! Thanks again - your insight is very helpful! </p>
<p>I think I understand. I just want to ensure he at least has the opportunity to eat 3 meals a day …or, put another way 21 times per week. I see the Freedom plan as the best fit. Looking at the other options (12 or 10 meals per week) I figured I would have to supplement either of those plans either with cash (so he could eat out) or via the Dining Dollars program (not necessarily used at the cafeteria, rather used at campus fast food, vending, or convenience stores.) </p>
<p>Anyway - thanks! </p>
<p>Now on to housing… He has signed-up for the tri-towers: Metcalf, Carrol, and Bowen in that order. I think a couple of them have learning villages, but besides that are there any real differences among them?</p>
<p>mudgedatch,</p>
<p>From my understanding, the biggest difference between the Tri-Towers is how the door security is set up. Metcalf has a 24 hour service desk on the first floor so anyone can walk into that part and access the desk for trash bags, package pick-up, etc. You need a key or card to access the elevator and then you need a key to access your room, but the suite doors do not have locks on them.</p>
<p>I believe that Bowen and Carroll are set up more traditionally. You need a key to access the building, a key to access your suite, and then a key for your door. </p>
<p>Besides that, I think that Metcalf may have more floors but I’m not sure. I think the room layouts are all the same and they are all great choices!</p>
<p>In regards to the meal plans, I think you are required to buy at least 100 Dining Dollars with every semester you have a meal plan. For me, that takes care of when I go over my equivalency, when I get a soda from a vending machine, or when I buy a bag of chips from the C-Store. If you think your son will spend more than that, you can buy more from the beginning of the semester or just add on AllCampus money at any time in the semester. They are spent the exact same way!</p>
<p>Thanks again ncstatefreshman!</p>
<p>ncstatefreshman - Thank you for taking the time to ask our questions, as it is greatly appreciated by us nervous future students. So without further ado, here are a few of my own personal questions:</p>
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<li>How are the people at NCSU? Are they relatively down to earth, or more preppy? I have gone through bouts of depression and self esteem issues due to the general coldness of the people in my current high school, and I am hoping for a fresh start to be myself again. Do you think NCSU would be helpful in creating this fresh start I am looking for? (I am from out of state and will take a gap year before attending)</li>
<li>Does NCSU carry a relative prestige outside of the state, or only within the region?</li>
<li>In one word/sentence, how would you describe your year so far at NCSU?</li>
<li>Is the campus very urban and city-like (UT Austin-esque) or similar to UNC Chapel Hill’s countryside feel? Or is it something different entirely?</li>
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<p>Thank you once again for taking the time to answer our questions!</p>
<p>NYGiants7,</p>
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<li> I love the people at NC State. With a campus of over 24,000 undergraduates, you’re going to find a lot of diversity. There is a bit of Greek Life so you may get more traditionally “preppy” students but that does not mean that they are not down to earth.</li>
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<p>I would assume you’re coming from New York and I think that you will find southern hospitality true. We are generally a welcoming bunch, but as with any college, people will have negative and positive experiences.</p>
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<li><p>I cannot speak to how others look at us because I’m still a student, but I think that the school is looked upon highly nationally. This ([Best</a> Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ.com](<a href=“Best Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ”>Best Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ)) is just article that highlights this.</p></li>
<li><p>Challenging. I’ve been challenged in every way imaginable (to make more friends, to get involved, to make great grades, to eat better, to exercise more, etc) but I think that NC State has helped me rise to the challenge.</p></li>
<li><p>I have no knowledge of UT Austin’s campus but I’ve spent a little time on UNC’s campus and I would say we are a bit more modern. We are minutes away from downtown Raleigh (I see the skyline from my dorm room window) but we are still very enclosed so we are not “downtown” like UChicago’s campus. Here ([NC</a> State University at a glance :: North Carolina State University](<a href=“http://www.ncsu.edu/about-nc-state/campus-tour/]NC”>http://www.ncsu.edu/about-nc-state/campus-tour/)) is a campus tour if you would like to see more pictures!</p></li>
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<p>Hi! Thanks so much for answering questions, I really appreciate it! Do you know anything about undergraduate research in biomedical engineering? The website is pretty persuasive, but do students actually get to participate in research? Thanks!:)</p>