FYI, you can appeal your Honors “non-acceptance.” Or at least you could last year. Get in touch with the Honors office. Every single person who appealed last year (at least as far as I’ve been able to figure out) got in.
@whitespace Could you go into more detail about that?
@marijke Honestly I’m not sure how much else I can tell you. I didn’t go through the appeal process myself, but a lot of friends did. From what I can gather, it wasn’t really a “process” at all, more of just getting in touch with the honors program and talking with them. I’m not sure about how it will work this year, though, because they’re switching the honors program around and maybe changing to EV instead of IV. They may limit the numbers or be stricter about letting people in.
Did you hear that from a reliable source? That’s the first I’ve ever heard of honors not being in IV.
^ I heard the same thing. No source personally, just chatter around school.
@suzyQ7 No official source besides an honors advisor mentioning that the housing will be “shuffled around” next year as part of the Honors program re-design.
But also just like @ptkid16 said, chatter around. It makes sense though, EV would get the honors freshmen closer to all of the other freshmen, and allow them to market the dining hall/gym dorm to upperclassmen.
@blountwil2 I see you are NMS SF, NEU will replace your deans scholarship with the $30K NMS. Did you factor that in to your cost of attendance? They won’t stack it with grant aid though, so it depends on your EFC
yeah I’m taking that into account but it is only a 2k difference from the grant I was originally given and it would not be adjusted with tuition
Interesting that they mentioned a housing reshuffle. When EV was built, all Honors/admissions/housing folk staunchly denied that Honors freshman would be placed there, citing the dining hall. I would think there is some advantage to having a good chunk of freshman in IV as well, to open up people’s eyes to the other dorms on Columbus, get comfortable walking through Ruggles, eating in IV. Particularly, if they reroute all freshman to the Stetson dining halls (the vast majority of Honors frosh eat in IV daily just out of convenience), there is absolutely no way they’ll be able to handle the crowds.
There are only ~700 beds in EV (including apartments). Not sure how many honors freshman there are - but there are ~3000 students in the entire honors program. I doubt all honors freshman would fit in non-apartment style housing in EV.
http://www.northeastern.edu/honors/prospective-students/admission-frequently-asked-questions/
There was consideration of moving honors freshmen to East Village right after it was built (I was asked what I thought of this idea by someone in the know), but that was considering moving it for fall 2015. Given that they decided not to do it then, I find it unlikely that they’d change their minds now.