<p>@novafan1225
@jcfsox</p>
<p>Thankyou for all of the information. The last few replies were really helpful. One more thing: how’s the gym in IV? Does it have any barbells/dumbells? </p>
<p>@julianstanley The only things I have used in the IV gym are the treadmills for running… I think I heard somewhere that the IV gym does not have any free weights, but I’m not quite sure. The main campus gym at the Marino Center certainly does, though. Maybe one of the others can provide more information.</p>
<p>@julianstanley Yeah, the gym in IV doesn’t have any free weights, just quite a few treadmills, ellipticals, and two or three pulley type machines- definitely not the right gym for hardcore lifting, I just tend to do cardio so it works well for me. Marino should satisfy any gym need, which is maybe a 5-8 minute walk from IV, and there is also a gym called Squashbusters on Columbus that, though I’ve never been to, is supposedly pretty good and less crowded.</p>
<p>@jcfsox (or anyone else) My son was accepted ED to the Honors Program and CCIS. (1) When we toured the school, someone mentioned the Honors program potentially moving to the new residence hall which just opened. Is that correct? (2) He also liked the idea of a single room. Is that guaranteed for Honors students. (3) He has about 45 dual enrollment credits so far and will have another 9 after this this semester. I believe now that he has committed, he can send them over for evaluation. Do you recommend he do this asap or wait until he finishes in the spring? Thanks!</p>
<p>The honors program is looking for a new home where they can house all levels together in a true LLC (not just freshman) but I don’t know when/or if that will be happening. </p>
<p>When you do your housing questionnaire you can say that you prefer a single, usually there are plenty of singles to get your request (since they are more money, many people don’t ask for it)</p>
<p>Wait until you are done in the spring - they will require the complete transcript from his HS, the dual enrollment school, and any AP scores. They do limit the number of credits they accept as transfer credits for incoming freshman (APs, don’t know about dual enrollment). </p>
<p>Thank you for starting this thread…D was accepted to NEU Honors…while i know there is a higher % of women than men at NEU, does that ratio stay the same in the honors program? And in the dorms? </p>
<p>@kiddie Thank you! They told us the limit was on AP, not dual enrollment. However, the dual enrollment classes will really only apply to non-major classes so it will be limited (but they should cover 11-12 of his 33 required courses).</p>
<p>My honors daughter has almost all male friends and they are honors students - so I am not sure about that ratio.</p>
<p>from the NEU website:</p>
<p>Credits (Min/Max):
You may transfer up to 60 semester-hours of credit from an accredited two-year college, or up to 64 semester-hours from an accredited four-year college or any combination of two-and four-year college/university credit to a maximum of 64 credits.</p>
<p>file:///C:/Users/jomidi/Downloads/Northeastern%20University%20Transfer%20Credit%20Policyae97bd.pdf</p>
<p>That makes sense. He will be looking to transfer 40 to 48 so he should be good.</p>
<p>He should probably meet with his advisor during orientation (they usually schedule this for you) and at that time lay out all of his years based upon the transfer credits. They have a default program for every major for all four years but with that number of transfer credits, his will definitely be different. He may also want to consider doing 4 years with 2 co-ops since he is coming in with so many credits (instead of the typical 5 years with 3 co-ops).</p>
<p>@kiddie that is exactly what he was advised to do, 4 years with 2 co-ops, by one of the CCIS deans. </p>
<p>@fl9999 Hi! The new residence hall, East Village, is set to open this spring. It was originally scheduled to open this past fall and I had heard rumors that the current Honors freshman class would be living there, but obviously that’s not the case. This semester it will act as overflow housing for NUin students (they’ll first be placed in any vacant rooms in other freshman residence halls). I work with ResLife quite a bit (not personally, but through RSA) and as of now, there are not any plans to move Honors freshman from IV. I think they like, especially for freshman, to have close access to the dining halls (all dining halls are located in/near main freshman residences; International Village, Stetson East, Stetson West). I wouldn’t worry about it though, IV is still new, clean and by no means a consolation prize.</p>
<p>About the single room, I can’t make any guarantees but I would say you can pretty much bank on a single room if you request one in IV. Floors 2-9 house freshman, and of those floors probably 1/2 of the rooms are singles, the other half being a long hallway of double rooms. They are slightly more expensive but not much at all (this year I think a single runs $4900, while a double is $4200- a drop in the bucket compared to the total bill).</p>
<p>Also, @SouthernHope I live in IV with other Honors freshman and I think there is a balanced male/female ratio- haven’t noticed any discrepancies. The Honors res halls should follow suit naturally, and most of the other halls are pretty balanced although not to the same extent but because of the LLC program, wherein students choose “themed” housing instead of selecting the building. For example, some of the LLC’s are gender-based; women in engineering, women in CCIS, etc.- so those particular LLC’s will likely be off balance, but you don’t have to live there if you don’t want. Honors kids technically live in the Honors LLC, which basically means no theme but you live in IV.</p>
<p>On the single rooms, I’ll just add that lots of people who did not request singles still got them, and they were still required to pay the higher rate. If you request one you will almost certainly get one.</p>
<p>Also adding to the room situation: at least in IV, if you really want a double/don’t want to pay extra for a single, make sure to request a roommate. As far as I know, everyone who requested a roommate last year got that person- I even requested my suitemates, and that was granted as well.</p>
<p>As honor students, I assume that many of you had multiple options for college - it seems like one main reason for large scholarships and honors perks are to attract strong students who would otherwise not attend Northeastern. Which schools were each of you accepted into, and why did you pick Northeastern? </p>
<p>I actually only applied to 5 schools, and was admitted to 3 (I had planned on applying to Syracuse as a safety and Duke as a reach but ended up dropping those).</p>
<p>UVa- deferred then waitlisted
UNC-CH- deferred then waitlisted
NU- accepted EA with scholarship and Honors
SUNY Binghamton- accepted EA with Honors
UPitt- accepted (rolling)</p>
<p>Of the 3 I was admitted to, I only liked 2 (I applied to Pitt in hopes of merit money, but didn’t get any so I dropped that pretty quickly). SUNY Binghamton was a great school and had really close ties with PwC for accounting, but I chose NU which ended up at the same net cost as Binghamton. I liked NU for the co-op program, the vibe I got from the other students, and Boston. Also, NU is a better school I think.</p>
<p>I’m probably not impressing you all that much with my list lol but I think my sampling is a little off because 4/5 schools were state schools, and 3/4 of those I was OOS making admissions quite a bit tougher. I’m happy to be at NU though, I really really love co-op (I haven’t been but I love the whole model). All the students are pragmatic in that way, and I think there is a work hard play hard culture. NU definitely does not have the big sports school vibe I thought I wanted, but the school still parties if you know where to look. I knew several kids who’d gone to NU and loved it and I loved both my visits. After being at NU for a semester I can promise you I made the right decision, I really love this school.</p>
<p>As far as “big name schools”, my roommate turned down NYU among others as a University Scholar. My suitemate turned down Cornell, also a Scholar, a floormate turned down BC Honors, another floormate turned down MIT…</p>
<p>Accepted - University of Connecticut (honors), RPI, WPI, NU (honors). I got good merit from all of these.
Waitlisted - Northwestern, UPenn, Lehigh
Rejected - Brown, Yale</p>
<p>Brown had been my first choice; I applied ED, got deferred, then rejected. Of the schools I was accepted to, it came down to UConn and NU. After Ivy League decisions came out, I gave UConn a last look and then chose Northeastern.</p>
<p>Not going to lie, I had visited Northeastern a few months earlier and was shown around IV, and that was a factor 
Also, the computer science program perfectly fit what I was looking for. At many schools (like UConn), CS is lumped in with engineering and I would be required to take all the physics/chemistry/etc courses too. At Northeastern, CS has its own college and I like that better.</p>
<p>All of the students who were perfectly qualified for top 20 schools but are victims of the sheer number of applicants who apply to them… they congregate in the Northeastern honors program.</p>
<p>Hi @novafan1225, can you comment on the co-op compensation a business major (finances, most likely) can expect? We’re trying to factor the coo-op income into the cost of attending NU financial equation. Thanks.</p>
<p>@Putterer Business majors, along with some engineering/comp sci, tend to make the most money on co-op. From what I understand, all business co-ops are paid (some liberal arts aren’t), but the amount varies. It depends on how competitive you are vs. other students applying for co-op. For the first co-op, I might say the range is $12-15. Second might be $15-18, and third might be $17-20. (per hour). There are some co-ops that might pay less but have a higher chance of post-grad hire, so many students consider that route. These are veeeery rough guesstimates by the way, I’ve not been on co-op but this seems relatively okay from what I understand. There are some outliers that pay way more but I wouldn’t count on those.</p>
<p>However, I would advise you to NOT try to account for co-op as a means of financial aid/paying for school. AFAIK, most say co-op will cover roughly room and board/living expenses for the co-op period; very few people end up with money leftover to go towards tuition. Exceptions would be people making insane amounts of money, but that’s very rare and would only happen in the second/third co-op anyways, and people who are RA’s (free room and board, while not paying tuition, thus they can save that money) or people who co-op while living at home to save that money. I would not recommend counting on either; something like 1000 people apply as RA’s while maybe 80 are chosen, and while electing to live at home is nice in theory, some people after living at college for a few semesters decide they can’t go back, or there might not be a good co-op near their home, or they might want to build their network elsewhere/get a better offer.</p>
<p>The only thing you CAN count on would be that the co-op program spreads out payments, typically. I.e, if all goes well and I land a co-op spring semester of sophomore year, I would only have to pay tuition for the fall semester- my parents and I can save up during the spring semester to help alleviate the cost of the following semester. While I will likely not be net gaining money for the first co-op at least, I probably also won’t have a net loss, meaning my parents and I pay nothing more or less for those periods, which, yeah, is pretty nice to get a break from payments.</p>
<p>In summary: the process has a lot of variables and it is very hard to plan on using co-op money as a means of paying future tuition, so I would not recommend accounting for it because you will more than likely end up disappointed/in a rough spot if you plan on having an extra $10000 to pay for school that instead has to go to living expenses for co-op.</p>
<p>@novafan1225, Thanks for your very detailed and helpful response, as always. This gives us a realistic picture of what to expect (financially) from co-op.</p>