<p>There may already be a thread for this, but I don't know where it is. My daughter is a sophomore who will be moving to McCormick next quarter. She's already taken a lot of the courses but hasn't officially changed her major yet; she even has an adviser. Last night she called and talked about doing her degree in 5 years so that she can be in the co-op program. Do any of you have any experience with this (parents or students)? Do we have to pay a whole extra year of tuition? I have gone over to the website, but I'm not sure if I understand the program completely. Any info/input would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
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<p>It looks like if the CO-OP is local, she would have the option to keep living on campus. I am not sure what would happen to her dorm space when the CO-OP is out of town.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Sam. She will be off-campus starting in June anyway. I hope this all works out.</p>
<p>My D is a 2009 McCormick grad, and she was a co-op student.</p>
<p>My D did her 6 month away co-op locally, and lived in her dorm, as Sam reports. When she did study abroad, she just roomed up away from campus, after she came back mid-year. I’m not sure on the details of how she got the lead to the girls that needed a roommate, but it worked out ok. I would guess it would be similar for an away co-op.</p>
<p>As far as dollars go, yes you pay for an extra year, but you also make the money from your co-op job to pay for it - at least my D did - and I would assume that any and all co-op program particpants for NU pay well. And you obviously don’t pay tuition, while you do your away co-opping. So my D paid for room and board only.</p>
<p>The happy ending is that my D is working in her field, and had the offer before she graduated, though it was not with her co-op company, it was with her summer intern company. And an even happier ending is that she paid off her student loans a year and a half after she graduated.</p>
<p>This is all good news. Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m bumping this to see if anyone has any last words on the Co-op program at McCormick (maybe someone is digesting turkey and surfing CC). We’ve found the info from nugraddad and Sam Lee very helpful. I promise I won’t bump this again. Thanks!</p>
<p>The only thing I want to add is I thought with co-op, you are committed to working for the same employer for at least 4 quarters. So nugraddad, how did your daughter get out of that?</p>
<p>My D walked the co-op walk - and was runner up for the co-op of the year award, so she did it right! :)</p>
<p>She worked as a summer intern betrween jr and sr year with her current employer - which was after her Tour Of Duty with her co-op company was complete.</p>
<p>She was never going to re-up with her co-op employer anyway - she was a ChemE major, and her co-op employer and position was Mat-Sci oriented. It did giver her valuable experience with large company policies and procedures, gave her valuable resume expderince and of course paid a lot of bills.</p>
<p>Sam - PM me if you want or need more.</p>