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Does anyone know if NEU will recognize a 4 month summer internship as being the equivalent to a 6 month coop to meet the experiential learning requirement? My son is an incoming computer science freshman and has a summer internship offer (for this year or next) with a major defense contractor that doesn’t currently offer a 6 month (Jan -Jun/July-Dec) coop.

I’m not sure and it is worth research, but I do know you can also create your own co-op if the company chooses to allow one of the time periods. So if the problem is that they aren’t yet affiliated with NEU, it can still count as a NEU co-op with a bit of paperwork.

Thanks @PengsPhils. The company doesn’t do anything with NEU, but they are one of the top defense contractors in the country so would love to get this on my son’s resume and also have him get get coop experiential credit for it if possible. I am sure that NEU would also love to get their foot in the door with them if they could but don’t know if the company wants to expand beyond the colleges where they currently recruit at.

Not hesitant about studying abroad… more like scared of the expenses. Not sure how international business co-ops pay

@apccpa I’m not saying that the company will have to do anything such as recruit at NEU. All you would have to do is file paperwork to get it counted as a co-op and have it be in the normal co-op window. The company would have no binding contract to NEU, the paperwork is more so that students can count jobs outside of the NEU co-op network as official co-ops, not that the company will have any obligations beyond proving the single student a relevant job. That said, co-ops don’t usually start until at least 3 academic semesters so this may not work out for that route anyways. I would say just go for it and don’t worry about how NEU counts it (though still worth research once again. I’m not familiar with this specific situation). I am assuming your son would want another co-op in the following 4 years which would satisfy the requirement.

Thanks for the info @PengsPhils. We’ll talk to someone about it at NEU, but more than likely he will just do it next summer regardless of whether it counts or not and then go from there. And yes, he plans to do other coops.

@apccpa - I don’t think CS requires a specific number of co-ops, so even if they count it as an internship instead of a co-op, I think he’d be fine. It would be worth talking to a co-op advisor about, though.

@beczhou - in general, study abroad isn’t more expensive than being on campus. It might even be cheaper, depending on where you go, because housing in Boston is expensive. As for international co-ops, business co-ops say pretty well, even abroad. Plus, Northeastern has a presidential global scholarship that can provide up to $6000 for an international co-op. I wouldn’t be too worried about the international component making things too expensive.

Hello guys

So I just got accepted to D’amore McKim School of Business last week. I also received merit scholarship that is pretty helpful. I am considering between Northeastern Univeristy and Bryant University (its a smaller private school located in Smithfield, Rhode Island, not far away from Boston)

Well…so I just want to know how the real experience is in NEU and besides the co-ops that is absolutely amazing, why NEU???

Besides co-op, there’s pretty much anything you need. Boston for fun, research galore in every department, all the clubs you’ll find at and big university, the campus is very nice and has lots of amenities available from Marino (three story gym / fitness center for students) to great restaurant choices being in Boston. Being not too far from Boston and in Boston are tow completely different experiences. Essentially, location and resources are the biggest things beyond co-op. Also, the school has a great size where you don’t quite get lost but you have everything you need. I see people I know all the time when I walk around campus and am in classes, but there’s still plenty of people.

Business is a great department, certainly the best ranked of the colleges. Academically probably superior to Bryant, though as many will tell you, myself included, fit will be more important than slight ranking difference.

I can’t say I’m too familiar with Bryant, but I checked and according to Bloomberg, it’s nearly two thirds business students. I would consider it if you want to be immersed in business. NEU will offer more academic diversity.

Any questions, fire away.

Hi, another question: for bsib students, do we get to pick which university/city to study abroad in? For example, if I pick shanghai, am I guaranteed the spot? Thanks!

I read that some of the Freshmen Dorms don’t have air conditioning. Do the Freshmen honors dorms in International Village have air conditioning?

@apccpa

Yep! Most freshman dorms don’t have AC (you don’t need it except for the first month maybe, and in the summer those buildings are empty) but all of IV has AC.

Hi, thanks for being able to answer our questions! I have a couple:

  1. How “generous” is NU about giving out scholarships to students? For example, I know NYU is notorious for giving out very little scholarship money so how does NU compare? For me this is important because since I live in Chicago and come from an normal/upper middle class family and could probably get into UIUC I would need to receive a scholarship in order to consider out of state schools.

  2. This is going to sound semi-superficial but how is the Greek life at NU? I’m a really studious person so I love the idea that people are very academically (and career focussed; however, I would prefer a school that had even a medium Greek life/party scene just because in high school I never partied and it would be nice to try and branch out while I’m still a teenager without having to go to a straight up party school like UIUC.

  3. Do a lot of students use/have cars on campus?

  1. Northeastern does offer quite a bit of scholarship money, but it’s getting very competetitive. It goes to the top 25% of the admitted students, so I’d look at the admissions stats and see where you fall in that. (But keep in mind that that 25% number isn’t just based on pure stats).

  2. There are frats/Greek life if that’s what you’re into, but its nowhere near as prominent as somewhere like UIUC. It’s there if you want to be part of it. Boston is also the ultimate college town, since there are 300,000 college students in the Boston area. There are always parties somewhere and tons of stuff to do.

  3. No. Unless you need a car to get to co-op, don’t have a car. Parking is ridiculously expensive (I’m not even sure freshmen can get parking), and you’ll never use it. There’s a ton of stuff really close to campus that you can walk to, or people use public transit.

I was wondering how easy it is to take the train from Boston Logan Int’l Airport to Northeastern with luggage and how much time will it take, including shuttles to/from the airport and waiting for trains and transfers? Also, Green Line or Orange line if in the Freshmen Honors Dorms?

From a Yahoo post:
Most people will probably tell you to take the Airport Blue Line Station connector bus, then the Blue Line to Government Center Station, then the Green Line “E” train to Northeastern Station, but I will tell you instead to change from the Blue Line to the Orange Line at State Station, and then the Orange Line from State to Ruggles Station. Both Ruggles and Northeastern Stations are surrounded by the university, but the Orange Line is faster and more comfortable (usually) than the Green Line.

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@apccpa Orange Line for sure if you’re in IV (freshman honors), it’s right next door. I took Orange Line to State, then State to Logan for a flight this spring. Though I don’t remember specifically, I’d guess it was between an hour and an hour and a half to get from my dorm in IV to Logan Airport.

As for ease of taking the T with luggage, my trip was only a day or two so I didn’t have much with me. If it’s for move-in, could be trickier. So long as you have enough hands for your luggage, and everything rolls, you should be fine. A suitcase without wheels would be a PITA.

Thanks @novafan1225. It would be only for going back and forth for holidays and breaks where he would probably have a carry-on and a backpack, so it sound like it should be fine. And an hour and half sounds reasonable.

Orange line is the way to go regardless, as Government Center is currently being renovated long term until 2016.

All of the rest of the info is pretty accurate.

http://mbta.com/riding_the_t/default.asp?id=26899#When

Also consider silver line coming from the airport, since it’s free that direction. People sometimes give the silver line crap for not being a train, but I still fine it convenient for the airport.

Also, I just graduated and would always take the T when flying to/from school and never had a problem (unless it was too early for the T to be running, but that’s another issue altogether).

@nustudent16 my son will be a freshman this year and he’s a Computer science and Business Admin student but while choosing his interests he chose music since he plays guitar as well, so he’s got the Music Motifs LLC and was assigned to the Kerr Hall dorm. His other fellow students who are in the same majors were assigned Kennedy Hall.
So my question is, could you please let us know how is Kerr Hall? My worry is that, hope he does get to study there and doesn’t get affected by a music community. I would rather have him change it now than regret whole year. So any feedback would be great. Also please suggest other halls that he can request for, of course I hear the Stetsons are awesome.