I barely missed the cut to be accepted into Northeastern’s Honors Program, receiving the Dean’s Scholarship for 22k, the next biggest scholarship after the Honors Scholarship. However, Tulane accepted me into their honors program, so if I pick Northeastern anyway I would really like to work my way into honors. It says on their website that you can apply in one of your three first semesters to move into honors, but how difficult is it to do so successfully??
It’s incredibly easy to do it if you hit the GPA requirements. It won’t up your scholarship though. Generally won’t make much of a difference. At the level of Northeastern/Tulane, honors programs will have a very small effect on the college experience. In fact, for Northeastern many honors admits decline to graduate with honors.
@PengsPhils , do you know why people with honors admit decline to graduate with honors?
@twiume There are a few small extra graduation requirements that some don’t like to have, so they stay in the program for the housing and honors sections but don’t work towards those extra requirements. Depends on personal preference usually at that point.
My daughter was one of those who stayed in the honors program but didn’t graduate with honors. She didn’t take the required upper level honors interdisciplinary seminar. She started out undecided, ended up joint majoring in econ/math, and graduated in 4 years with 2 co-ops. She really tried to pack in both fun and practical classes to meet all her graduation requirements. Taking practical things like accounting, computer science classes, and public speaking, and fun stuff like film noir and Japanese culture. It just never worked out that an honors seminar fit in her schedule and was something that interested her. She was still treated like an honors student for all 4 years (honors housing and even wearing an honors ribbon at graduation) but her diploma doesn’t have the honors distinction on it. She thinks she made the right decision, as other practical classes have helped her in her career and not having the honors distinction hasn’t made any difference (she still put honors program on her resume - along with her 4.0 GPA).
@kiddie… I’m not sure Honors Program has any honors in the diploma… Latin honors that anyone is eligible to receive is listed in the program and on diploma… I think you got an asterisk by your name in the program if you were in the Honors Program and you got the Honors cord to wear… so sounds like your child completed the Honors program by getting the cord… or maybe they just don’t track it that closely. But you’re right, it really is not that significant except frosh housing and some minor travel/global coop scholarship money that seems guaranteed but again, anyone can apply for that.
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Yes, they do put honors on the NEU diploma (totally separate from latin honors like cum laude) and there was an honors list in the program that did not include her name. She did get the cord and was invited to all the honors program graduation celebration.
@kiddie great, I could not remember, older D graduated a few years ago with both NU honors and Latin honors and I couldn’t remember. Younger D is still in the program but won’t graduate for a year.
How much is the Honors Scholarship?
My DD got the honors scholarship 30K, plus should get extra for NMF. Also auditioning for a choir scholarship. She’s a business major but hoping to also be in the chamber choir.
You can apply and get accepted to the honors program once you are student. However, they will not adjust any scholarship money once you are enrolled.
Congrats! That’s a great amount
Is NE easy to change major once you get in?
My daughter is debating between NE dean’s scholarship at $18K vs. Tulane Honor $23K. She was accepted into the College of Science, Biology, but may want to transfer to the Business School, Healthcare management. Any suggestion?
You can actually change majors once you are accepted. Students do it every year. I think it can be done through the accepted student portal.
@mddaddy I have 3 options: Uconn honors and 7.5k (which would come out to paying less than 10k to go there and graduating debt free), Northeastern Dean’s Scholarship for 22k, and Tulane Honors for 27k. I see that you are deciding between Northeastern and Tulane, and I have already narrowed my choice down to UConn or Northeastern since the co-op program at Northeastern (and the fact that getting into honors shouldn’t be too hard) makes it more attractive and affordable than Tulane.
Thank you for your reply.
Thank you for your reply. Can you still take the scholarship when you are in the co-op year because you are not a full-time student in the co-op year? Thanks!
You are still student when you’re on co-op but you don’t pay tuition and all aid/scholarship (besides federal) is paused for that time. Co-op pay typically covers the cost of living at least, depending on the major. In my experience, most majors outside of things like art/theatre/some political nonprofits are almost all paid positions that will cover living cost. STEM/Business co-op’s can often save money on co-op to use later or save away generally.
How do you know this is the next biggest scholarship next to the Honors Scholarship? In 22k the max amount one can get from the honors scholarship.