<p>As usual, all of the responses on here have been really helpful. Yall are awesome, really.</p>
<p>One last question before I pull myself away from CC. Northeastern has a open house type thing for university scholars in March, and that’ll be the first time I see the campus (I visited Boston last summer, but hadn’t even considered northeastern until a family friend recommended it the last evening before we left). Do you have any recommendations about things I should see/do outside of the planned schedule while I’m over there?</p>
<p>They have some activities built into the scholars weekend to see some of the area, but it recommend just taking some time to wander around campus and the surroundings yourself to get a sense of how it feels to you. When I hosted students for it, I’d take them on my own sort of tour to places they were interested in (like the band office and showing them the lab where I work). Definitely take advantage of the chance to ask absolutely any questions you have! </p>
<p>Away from campus, if you have time to explore Boston, the North End and freedom trail are pretty cool, and the Museum of Fine Art is right next to campus. </p>
The biggest con I see with IV is its isolation from the rest of campus. I would like to have friends and connections outside of the honors students, but I am worried the campus isolation would be difficult to overcome. I have also heard (and seen) that Ruggles is not a very safe area to be at night. Should I be worried about walking back from main campus to IV in the dark?
My honors daughter had a large group of friends freshman year who hung out in IV - some were not honors students and came from across campus to hang with their friends. Just be smart when walking through ruggles and you will be fine. If it is really late, you can get nu security to escort you across campus.
Remember you will make connections through other means than just your dorm - classes, clubs, events, etc. - these will not all be honors students (you will not have only honors classes). Also, you need to vary your habits - don’t just take all your dining plan meals in IV - go to the other dining halls and eating places on campus.
Everyone says “isolation”, idk where that comes from, I think people forget how big NU actually is. Not only are there classrooms and a really good dining hall in IV, making it a place that plenty of other NU students visit daily, but there is also a decent amount of NU on the other side of Ruggles in general. The mailroom where most students will pick up packages/many have work-study, there are a number of upperclass residence halls (Dav A, Dav B, Douglass Park, 680 Columbus, Coventry), one of our student gyms…President Aoun’s office is on our side of campus, for goodness’ sake. If a 5-10 minute walk is too much isolation for you to overcome then so be it, but it really isn’t bad at all.
As far as walking through Ruggles at night, I’m super paranoid about being mugged/kidnapped/murdered/whatever (too much Law and Order growing up in a suburb) and I’ve never had a problem, nor have I ever really been scared or nervous. All of Ruggles is kept really well lit, and there are a number of police officers in Ruggles at any given time. I have a club meeting that gets out usually around 8:30-9:00 pm, and I’m more than okay walking through Ruggles alone. Late night (after a party, concert, whatever) I typically try not to go through Ruggles alone but not Ruggles specifically…I just don’t think it’s a good idea to walk through city streets by myself late at night as a girl, and I don’t think Ruggles is any different than just walking through Boston. My friends are all really good about this, too; all my girl friends like to travel in packs of 3 or more late at night (Ruggles or not) and my guy friends have always offered to walk me home/through Ruggles whenever if I ever was alone or uncomfortable (and I actually have ended up asking one of them for an escort home once). Just be city smart!
How difficult is it to get a co-op? Reading the NU Parent Message Board, I have the impression that many students submit dozens of applications and sometimes get no co-op offers that semester. It sounds like it can be a very stressful process for some students. I assume ease of obtaining a co-op has a lot to do with the major. What’s the co-op situation for business students? Does being in Honors have any impact on getting a co-op? Thanks.
As a business student, you’re in pretty good shape. While I don’t think Honors students have any explicit advantage over their peers, it is a nice little resume padder and often by virtue of the program students have higher GPA’s than their non-Honors peers (a 3.0 is required by the end of freshman year, a 3.5 by graduation), which is nice especially considering some co-ops have GPA minimums. I would argue that most business students, along with probably engineering and maybe compsci, have little trouble securing a co-op, though it may not be the co-op you want. I met a bio major last semester who was hoping to co-op this current semester, but received no offers and instead had to sign up for classes. Business students in particular seem to apply for co-op much earlier than our peers- it is normal for a business student to secure a co-op in September or October while others are still applying and interviewing into December.
There are inevitably people who don’t put in the effort, and that seems to be the brunt of students who don’t get co-op offers. Those who put in the necessary work will be rewarded. There are constantly employers on campus, resume workshops, mock interviews, networking opportunities…really an endless number of things you can do to continually make yourself a better candidate. The people who barely attempt any typically end up without the co-ops.
The best advice I’ve heard would be: 1.) Keep a high GPA (obvious, but it helps a LOT). 2.) Take advantage of mock interviews and all the career office does, which is a lot! and 3.) try and get a little experience prior to your co-op, whether that be working as a athletics marketing intern for NU or interning a few days a week at your dad/aunt/neighbor’s firm (anything helps). I was surprised when I arrived at NU how many of peers had experience in the field in a number of ways.
Hello, my daughter was admitted to honors program. While NEU is still high on her list she is still trying to decide. Should she wait to accept honors invitation?
@sofla1 I don’t believe there’s any harm in waiting until all your options are on the table and you have time to decide. Being admitted early action, there’s no harm in waiting until the deposit deadline (make sure you know when that is!!). Unless of course she got admitted early decision, in which case there’s no decision for her to make.
As for honors, you fill out a second agreement after you send in your deposit to officially join the program.
How’s the gender ratio in CCIS compared to other universities? Are the guys your a compsci major any better than the greasy hermit stereotype?
Also, is there any sort of stigma attached to freshman who get into the Honors program second semester rather than at admission? Like if I join late, is it harder to make friends within that community if i don’t live at IV?
My son was accepted into the Honors program and he received a merit scholarship of $12,000 a yr. I don’t want to sound ungrateful but will there be more scholarships? Other schools have offered much more and I was wondering if NU notifies you of additional scholarship awards as time goes on. He loves the school but $12K doesn’t really put much of a dent in the cost.
I think the comp sci ratio is probably typical - there will be more boys than girls. My daughter is very good friends with lots of comp sci majors and yes they are nerds (they love video games) but they are not “big Bang theory” material (they all hate that show and the negative image it portrays).
Nobody cares if you are in the honors program or not - if you join late the only issue may be that you didn’t form a bond with the kids in the honors sections of fundies (the first required computer science class). I have mentioned here before that her freshman year my daughter hung out in IV and they would just sign in their non-honors friends when they came to visit (which was every day).
All merit scholarships are given with the initial acceptance - with the exception of national merit finalist - which you get once you are declared a finalist and designate Northeastern as your school.
@garda323 Gonna go with probably not, they tend to start with their best offer so that people don’t inundate fin.aid office with appeal requests. In my case, I was originally offered a Dean’s scholarship at EA admission but was later awarded a small business school scholarship ($3500/year) around the time of RD decisions. I think this is a very rare exception so assume $12k is all you’re getting.
@descadent No “stigma”, but you will definitely have a hard time making friends within the Honors program. Living in IV is the main way people make friends through the program, with the exception of a few Honors classes (but even then, I think it’s way more likely to befriend people you live with than those in one of your classes). It won’t matter though, like you can be an Honors student without having a lot of Honors friends. There are some people in IV who barely ever hang out here and have almost all their friends in other buildings, while some kids that aren’t in Honors are here all the time with their friends. Whether or not you’re in Honors really doesn’t matter much except when it’s hot outside and we get the sweet, sweet AC.
Hi - My son can’t make either of the “Welcome Days” for CCIS (3/28 & 4/12) because of prior commitments. How useful are these? He could easily go to one for one of the other colleges on 3/29, but not sure if that would be worth it. If he can’t make it to the welcome days, what would be the best way to get a feel for the CCIS honors program? NEU was not very high on his list originally, but with the merit money and honors college offer, it’s been moving up the list.
The welcome days are tailored to the school - attending a different school would not be very useful. Maybe he can arrange a visit another time - contact admissions and talk to them - they might be able to arrange an overnight and some classroom visits, etc. at a different convenient time.
Hi, I was accepted to the University Honors program today and I received a scholarship of 22k. It says on the University Honors website that all of the students in the program receive a full tuition scholarship. 22k is obviously not full tuition… would they give me full tuition scholarship later?
@pmmywest on the University Scholars website but I’m guessing that not everyone gets a full scholarship… is the scholarship based on financial need AND merit or just merit??
You are mixing up two different things - all university scholars get full scholarship - that is 75 people. People accepted into Honors do not (that is something like the top 10-15%).