@binky17 congrats to your son!
So helpful^ thank you!! And @kiddie he is a creative writer, ironically haha (but not only). @PengsPhils it’s a media company and yes, I was asking if NU would allow one to create one’s own co-op. I thought so, but I wanted to make sure.
@binky17 To chime in a little more, I think co-op is especially good for majors such as English where the job hunt may not be as standard as engineering. While I don’t know of any specific co-ops (only a freshman sorry), I do have a lot of faith in our career services department (2 in the country!). Talking to a family before a tour last week, I met a girl who was a prospective English major and her mom loved the idea of co-op for her because entering a field with different, “uncertain” job prospects, her daughter will have up to 18 months of first hand experience AND more importantly tons and tons of connections for hiring (50% of people get a job offer from a co-op employer!)
@ptkid16 ^exactly why we are so thrilled about Northeastern. Thank you!
My favorite co-op story was told by an admissions person at an information session. He wanted to be a lawyer. He got his first co-op at a law firm and hated it. Decided not to be a lawyer. How many college kids get the opportunity to try out a career before they graduate (without the risks and costs after they graduate). This guy saved himself tons of time and money by realizing he did not want to go to law school.
@binky17 My freshman year RA was an English major. He did the 4 year 2 co-op path and worked in copywriting at Bose in Boston and his second is working with an independent poetry publisher in Washington which he’s really enjoyed. A friend of mine in the journalism program worked with a government agency preparing their website/media/etc., and will start at Boston.com in the spring. There are still a lot of opportunities, but when they say a “good” co-op they might mean that English/humanities co-ops pay much less than average, or a stipend, or nothing.
Thanks @novafan1225 that is exactly the kind of pathway I was wondering about.
Are orientation dates offered by college or just based on convenience? Is there a specific orientation for Honors?
@suzyQ7 yes, I would like to know this as well.
I also wanted to know if orientation is when you register for classes (and does it therefore make sense to do earliest one for availability).
The Honors admission event looks great, although my son would have to fly in for that right after returning from his spring break internship. How important do you think it is, besides meeting one’s cohort?
The orientation sessions are college specific but usually are for 2-3 colleges per session. I don’t believe there is an honors one.
Yes, do the earliest one possible for registration, though you should be pre-enrolled in your key major courses. If you want to switch sections, you would want earlier as well.
My D was accepted as a biochemistry major and is on the premed track. Would she be able to get clinical coops or are they reserved for health science majors?
I’ve never heard of coops being “reserved” for a certain major, so your daughter should be fine especially if she is on the premed track. I have a couple friends premed who did one research coop and one clinical coop. With a major like biochem your daughter has a lot of doors open to her, so nothing to worry about there. Congrats to you both! @carolinesmom
Thanks @ptkid16!
I’ve seen mixed answers to this question - and its hard to find info online. Do credits you bring in help you get priority registration after freshman year? I’m pretty sure I read that the upperclass housing lottery is NOT based on number of credits - are lottery numbers truly random for housing - meaning a sophomore can get a really great number and senior could get a horrible number or do they factor in the year of college?
Housing lottery numbers are separated by year, not by credit. All 2nd year students get random numbers behind all 3rd year students, and so on. Within your year, it is random and not based on credits in any way.
There is no such thing as priority registration, but your time ticket is based on number of credits, including transfer/AP/IB. So, if you come in with a lot of credit, you will have better time tickets all years as someone with less who takes the exact same number of credits in the same pattern. In general, most people aren’t affected by time tickets beyond section times, and getting overrides is often easy, though can be tough on some class size limits.
@SuzyQ7 - More credits will give you an earlier registration time slot every semester except fall semester of your freshman year. That’s because your fall schedule is finalized when you go to orientation over the summer. Some people say that this means you should go for the earliest possible orientation so that you can get the best class choices. But I don’t think it’ll make a big difference since you’re pre-seeded (automatically registered ahead of time) for the classes needed for your major, which in most cases will fill up your schedule.
@PengsPhils - how does the housing lottery interact with choosing particular “living learning communities” related to one’s major or other interests? Are the odds of getting into one of those fairly good, or is it a crapshoot? (Or are some wildly more popular than others, and if so, is there information available on which ones are more or less in demand?)
@aquapt Freshman year is a completely separate process. Most get their first choice. The school puts the LLC’s in buildings based on how many people choose each, so there is no set size for an LLC.
The housing lottery is for sophomore year and onward.
Thanks, @PengsPhils ! That’s great to know - and it’s the kind of thing that’s very hard to tell from the official materials.