The requirement is only 60 hours now? I put in my 100+ for 5 years!
Yes but you got free tuition for your 100 hours - they get only $30,000 a year for their 60 hours
Scholars (full tuition) still requires 100 hours/year.
People keep repeating that your admissions chances are the same regardless of what major you apply to, but is this really true? Some departments are larger than others, and some must have more applicants than others, so logiacally there must be a difference in the admissions criteria in the process somewhere or some majors would be over or undersubscribed. Does anyone have any concrete info about this? My son is vacillating between sciences and humanities – quite a big difference, I know – and I would hate to have him reduce his chances by applying to one when he actually would be just as happy in the other. Thanks in advance!!
National Hispanic Scholar gets $30k and must complete 100 hours community service.
@charliedog and others asking about this
Unfortunately, no one really knows. There are no official stats on it, and with how easy it is to change schools, it doesn’t get contradicted. As others have said, you can literally change your major in an instant once you get accepted via the student portal. The change doesn’t get any harder once you arrive on campus.
I think that if you do have 2 viable options, you should apply to the one that your EC’s support the most: if you are a CS major that has lots of CS extracurriculars, applying as a psychology major could certainly hurt your application.
If there were some harder colleges to get into than others, the candidates would probably be the ones you expect: STEM essentially.
I agree: apply where you’re the best match, not what you suspect has the highest acceptance rate. You’ll be the strongest candidate there.
The competition turned out great @PengsPhils. My son came in second and won some scholarship money. Hopefully Matthew will be able to get things organized for them to compete in the ICPC competition this year.
As I understand it, one does not pay tuition while on coop. Is that correct?
No tuition on co-op and no actual credits earned for co-op - if you stay on campus you pay for your dorm room
Does anyone know what percentage of students that choose to live at home during their co-op? I wouldn’t necessarily
encourage it, but if the job was located closer to home and he could save money it might be something to consider.
Students co-op all over the world. Living arrangements during co-op are varied - some do live at home (kids who co-op near Boston and live near Boston frequently do this even though they live in the dorms when they are in class). Some kids on out-of-state co-ops may be living at home also.
For the most part, living at home is a somewhat rare thing but certainly a way to save money. For first co-ops, most people (probably 2/3rds) elect to stay in Boston to get their bearings. After that people tend to go to other places.
I’ve known quite a few people who opt to live at home while on coop. Given the price of housing in Boston, it can be well worth it since you can then save your co-op earnings to help pay for your semesters in classes.
@nanotechnology Regarding the NM scholarship + volunteering, are there any specific guidelines for where you volunteer or when?
@ShipAlreadySank
I know that was directed at Nano, but I’ll give it a shot:
First off, the volunteer program is called CEP. more information here: http://www.northeastern.edu/communityservice/programs/civic_engagement.html
And re. your actual question: First years are assigned a specific volunteer partner to work with on a weekly basis for 2-4 hours per week. You rank your top 7 choices (out of around 30, from programming projects to leading exercise classes) and, for the last few years, everyone has gotten one of their top 4. There are also application-only partners that are completely optional but require more hours, like Peer Health Exchange (~5-8 hours per week)
After first year, you do whatever you want as long as it meets a need of the community. Even on-campus research will do as long as you can write a little essay to the coordinators that successfully defends the way the research meets a community need.
Hope that answers the question! Feel free to ask more.
After freshman year, how many undergrads choose to live off campus? And if it’s a significant amount, how is the off campus housing situation?
@julianstanley Oh god, that’s embarrassing. I don’t know what happened there.
Thanks for the info! What are your thoughts on the program? Are the hours manageable with schoolwork? (And is there some flexibility?) Are you done once you hit 100 hours for the year, or do some people continue?
Thanks again.
@Ariz0na - I think northeastern now requires students to live on campus for their first 2 years. After that, many students do choose so move off campus because it’s charger. I believe that northeastern is now guaranteeing housing for all 5 years if you want it, but I haven’t double checked recently. I lived on campus for my first 3 years and off campus for the last 2.
@ShipAlreadySank - hours are generally flexible, and if you’ve got other crazy stuff going on you can choose a farther organization with more flexibility. A 2-4 hour weekly commitment is very manageable, and although you are technically finished after your 100 hours, people generally finish out the year. (You also get special CEP recognition if you complete extra ours.) Sometimes the volunteering with the partner organization doesn’t fully meet your hours requirement, but there are loads of one-time volunteer activities to fill the gap, like relay for life, sorting food at the food pantry, and volunteer days. I’m actually really glad I had CEP; it definitely helped me become more of a part of the community.
If your CEP partner hours don’t make it for the year than you can volunteer at home during breaks (need to get it approved by the CEP department)
I read here that the hours for Scholars is still 100 but has been reduced for National Merit (since the award was reduced from full tuition)