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<p>The reason for asking is that, out here, suburbs are not automatically low crime areas. There are many relatively high crime areas in suburban areas here. But the way you wrote the sentence in #35 implied that suburbs are automatically low crime areas.</p>
<p>Perhaps what cobrat means is that Brookline is one of the wealthiest towns in the state and is a community that parents to move to for the schools, which would lead people to believe that it is a lower crime area.</p>
<p>The suburbs to the West of Boston are certainly lower crime - Newton, Belmont, Arlington, Needham and I’d add Brookline to that list. Chestnut Hill too if you don’t consider that a part of Newton. There is a lot of wealth in Brookline.</p>
<p>if you dont live on campus during a coop, you dont need to pat room and board right?</p>
<p>if i were to do a coop during the academic year and take summer classes, would my financial aid packet cover those classes as well?</p>
<p>No, you don’t need to pay the university room and board but you do obviously need to pay living expenses. That’s what I meant. So probably rent and food or maybe nothing if you’re living at home? Financial aid should definitely cover summer classes – they are a normal part of Northeastern’s schedule.</p>
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<p>While that may be the case, using “suburb” to indicate that is misleading, since suburbs are not necessarily wealthy or low crime. (Or do poor or high crime suburbs not exist in the Boston area?)</p>
<p>@eireann
How do you feel about the surrounding areas of NEU? Any particular directions form campus students avoid by themselves or is it pretty much OK to walk about?</p>
<p>And explain for me how your semester charges break down while you’re on co-op. I’m trying to get a fuller appreciation of how the costs will vary between class/co-op semesters. </p>
<p>What about credit allocation from co-op? Is it standard, or do they weight some co-ops more in gaining college credits? </p>
<p>Finally, how is the University with regards housing, especially if you do co-op abroad one semester of the year, but generally housing policies and allocation overall?</p>
<p>I have a niece going to NU and she spent her first semester in Australia and is in Boston now. I think that she starts her coop after the spring semester and she is looking at companies in Boston and her home city (San Francisco). I think that the coop runs for six months. I have a coworker with a daughter there too and she has had about six interviews for her coop. The parent/student has to provide housing for the coop so there are advantages if the coop is local (either to relatives or family - niece can stay with my mother if she wants to do a coop in Boston). Neither had issues with housing.</p>
<p>First you don’t pay tuition when you are on coop. All you pay for is living expenses whether you are on campus or off campus. Most kids choose to live on campus or in apts close to campus during coop so that they can participate in ECs and/or social life. Once you are awarded a fin aid package, the funds can be used anytime during the school year whether it is for a fall or spring semester or a summer session - the pkg is valid Sept-Sept. You coop is part of your schooling and on your official transcript so you can use fin aid to pay for on-campus housing during coop. SO, when you are in class, you will pay tuition, books, and living expenses. When you are on coop you pay for living expenses…no tuition or books. </p>
<p>You gain 18 credit hours for experiental learning, not academic hours and it goes on your transcript. From the website - Students who fully and successfully participate in co-op receive eighteen semester-hours of Experiential Learning Credit (ELC) for each six-month co-op experience. Grades of Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U), and Incomplete (X) are assigned and will appear on your transcript. Although ELC is not added to the academic credit hours required for graduation, your transcript will reflect your grade for each co-op term. Awarding this credit indicates the value of the co-op learning experience and enhances your future career opportunities.</p>
<p>In terms of an international coop, NEU will assist with helping you find housing. Housing varies semester to semester…there are openings on campus and there are always people looking to fill apts as people rotate in and out of coops/study abroad. NEU housing maintains a list and does a very good job at helping kids coming and going get housing. </p>
<p>At first it may seem odd but it is part of the NEU culture and friends are still friends whether they are in class or on coop. Typically most kids by the end of their sophomore year want a break from academics because the course are getting harder…by the time the kids are finishing up their coop, they are tired of working and look forward to get back to class…what most kids are experiencing as seniors in college, NEU kids are experiencing it sophomore year as they prepare for coop.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus, Cobrat.
There’s crime everywhere. With that perspective, you’ll do much better wherever you are. The person being robbed isn’t interested in the crime statistics of the area. People are sometimes seduced by “low crime area”, and behave correspondingly (I would say act the fool), and leave themselves vulnerable.
That said, anywhere near a large Univ will attract some level of criminal activity, local or not, with such “easy pickings” as large numbers of newly liberated, out of area, affluent young people, many of whom are not city-dwellers by nature.This from someone with a D in a city basically by herself, who moves in a group as diverse as the UN, who do not restrict themselves in their movements by much. So I’ve seen/heard the ability and awareness of all types to operate in different environments.</p>
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<p>From my own personal experience from living in Boston, comments from NEU alum/student friends, and going on that campus among others to see friends or to attend some events(i.e. Capitol Steps concert), the only area’s I’d be concerned about is either on the other side of the Orange Line’s tracks, parts of Mission Hill, and the Fens late at night.</p>
<p>NEU also has a free security service where they will pick you up and drive you home anywhere within one mile of the campus.</p>
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<p>Agreed that crime can happen everywhere. However, there are areas where crime is much more likely to happen due to factors such as a high poverty rates, high proportion of the 12-24 age demographic…especially if they are male*, high presence of homeless drug gangs/addicts, etc.</p>
<p>I say this as someone who grew up in what was a working-class NYC neighborhood during the '80s when it was still heavily crime-ridden and where the local parks were littered with heroin needles and crack vials which had to be cleared before our softball little league games could be played. Everyone in my neighborhood including yours truly were mugged several times at some point. Only difference was as a 6-11 year old kid, they realized I couldn’t have had much money as a neighborhood kid and let me be. </p>
<p>I also lost a good elementary school friend who died in a cross-fire between two rival drug gangs while on his way home from his junior high school back in the late '80s. Unfortunately, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. </p>
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<p>@momofboston
Thanks for that excellent write-up. What I can’t seem to find are the graduation requirements for the different tracks. I’m emailing them today to find out. D has IB assessment exams coming up so she’s kind of busy.</p>
<p>@Cobrat
Fully agree. Queens/Brooklyn boy myself in those days, so we might have crossed paths along the way. Went to too many funerals. </p>
<p>My point was that your background and diversity exposure inform the way you carry/conduct yourself regardless your environment, and that you cannot let where you are dictate your actions. I see too many people in the “good areas” of Boston/NYC/LA/MIA/Orlando doing just silly things they wouldn’t dare in other parts of town, as if what you and I learned in the neighborhood, that crime goes for the easy targets, doesn’t apply.</p>
<p>Northeastern has a fairly generous AP/IB policy as well, accepting 4 or 5 on AP courses. This allowed my D (whose HS was not very AP course heavy) to plan a 3 coop track, which normally is a 5 year program to either have a summer session off, graduate in 4 1/2 years (with 3 coops) or pick up another major/minor. Many students seem to elect to extra major or minor and remain the 5 years. As she only a freshman, she is taking some electives for a possible minor.<br>
Also at Northeastern, major courses start right away, and her meetings with academic advisors and even coop advisors starting freshman year have been positive and encouraging. Suggestions began this year on possible ways to improve/strengthen her resume to that by her goal of Soph spring coop she will be an attractive candidate for coop employers. </p>
<p>Not everyone is suited to the coop schedule/philosophy. There are gen ed requirements, but not a large liberal arts “focus” if you will for those not majoring in those areas.</p>