<p>I was surprised to get an early offer of admission from Northeastern, and I was really happy with my scholarship and the fact that I got into the Honors Program. However, in my letter concerning the Honors Program, it says that if you enroll in the Program, you have to also live in an LLC. Do you HAVE to live in one of those if you are in the Honors Program? If yes, are these fun dorms? Or are they boring?</p>
<p>Also... I read on here in another thread that the sooner you apply for housing, the better housing you get. Is that true? It's not a lottery drawing after May 2 when everything is due? Because I really like Northeastern, but I'm waiting for a few more of my letters to come in that most likely won't be coming until April 1. I don't want all of the good housing to be gone!</p>
<p>Congrats on your admission to the college and into Honors. What were your stats like and what major? What was your scholarship. NEU looks like a great school. Still waiting to hear from them.</p>
<p>I got a 33 on my ACT and a 2050 on my SAT. My unweighted GPA is a 3.7 and my weighted is around 4.3.</p>
<p>I applied to the Political Science Program in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, but I’ll also be studying international relations. I got the $20k Dean’s Scholarship. </p>
<p>I actually hadn’t looked into NU much until I got my admission letter. I was really surprised! I didn’t even know that NU offered these early admissions outside of the early application time frame. It looks like a great school and I’m seriously considering it. </p>
<p>You don’t have to do Honors, and you don’t have to live in Honors housing. Still, the housing is better than most (all?) of the other underclassman housing – you live in International Village. I haven’t heard anything about it being any less fun.</p>
<p>I just got my official packet today with all of my information… There was some stuff on housing, and the Honors housing in International Village is, no doubt, the best. Thing is: their housing is on a first come, first serve basis, and I am waiting for other acceptance letters to come in that probably won’t be here til April 1. I don’t know what to do! If I accept my offer to be in the Honors Program, will that guarantee me housing in the International Village?</p>
<p>yeah im pretty sure all honors students are guaranteed housing in International Village</p>
<p>im going up to northeastern this weekend for the early action welcome days…ill make sure to ask about the honors housing (i got into honors too)</p>
<p>Last weekend I went to visit NU. My friend is actually a freshman in the Honors Program there and she took me around the campus. She showed me her dorm. After visiting over 15 other colleges the only other dorms that were comparable were Loyola Maryland’s. If you were accepted into Honors I highly suggest taking the option to live in International Village. The other dorms at NU don’t compare. The only down turn is the fact that you aren’t necessarily with the rest of the freshman but there are a lot of people living in IV. Plus by being in Honors you’ll most likely get better options for upperclassmen dorms the following years (i.e. West Village). I also visited Boston College last weekend (accepted to both EA). I thought I would easily say BC was my favorite but the dorms at IV definitely threw a curve ball.</p>
<p>Being in honors has zero influence on your lottery number for later years of housing, so you will not “most likely get better options for upperclassmen dorms”. </p>
<p>You can try for WVF which is honors only and isn’t TOO hard to get into, but it still goes by lottery number and if you live there, every single one of your roommates must be honors.</p>
<p>So what is the honors housing like? As in is it a block of just honor’s students with gym etc facilities? And is the process the same for finding a roommate? Are other IV students in another side of the block or how is it.</p>
<p>International Village houses approximately 1200 students. International Village’s west tower has 19 floors, International Village’s east tower has 22 floors, and the middle north tower has 9 floors. A minimum of a 10 meal plan is required for International Village as there are no kitchens available.</p>
<p>Features</p>
<p>TV lounges
Elevators
Laundry facilities
Vending machines
HuskyCable & Resnet
Mail delivery, pickup
RSO Proctor and secured entryways
INV Dining Hall
Internet Caf</p>
<p>Yeah they keep all the honors students in the same area, this year it was the north tower. It’s the same process for finding a roommate in the sense that you can request one at the start of the year but could also just apply for a random person (the “personality survey” or whatever you take when you apply for random doesn’t really mean anything, at least not from my experience).
Since there are about 500-600 other freshmen in honors, and there’s so much opportunity to interact with people not in honors, it’s not really that separating of a system. I’d agree with other posters in saying the facilities, space and cleanliness are so worth the Ruggles divide.
Not sure if you want a ton of specifics but I knew I did when I was a prospect, so here are a few random tidbits:</p>
<ul>
<li>the beds raise up really high, so you can fit the two two-drawer dressers they give you underneath plus have room for a row of shoes or whatever on top</li>
<li>the closets are really tiny, about three feet wide, with a couple of storage racks above</li>
<li>the desks are the same wood as the beds, which is really new and nice for the most part, and they have shelf storage that goes over the top</li>
<li>each room has a sink with a cabinet underneath, and is connected to the next room by a bathroom</li>
<li>there is, inexplicably, a corded phone in each room</li>
<li>there are four main lights, which don’t get obnoxiously fluorescently bright </li>
<li>the floors are a white-ish tile</li>
<li>there’s a large, single-pane window with a panel on each side that swings partially open</li>
<li>thermostat-controlled a/c that works well for the most part</li>
<li>an okay amount of outlets but extra ones are almost certainly necessary</li>
</ul>
<p>Okay, random information, but I remember wondering things like that so maybe it will help someone. : )</p>
<p>Hi ppl, I read the post listing some perks at IV and, cyber cafe? Does that mean no internet in IV dorms?
btw, any other freshmen admitted for fall 2012 here xD?</p>
<p>Not enough outlets? I had 24 outlets in my single in IV. I think that is more than in the entire upstairs of my house at home.
But other than that you pretty much nailed it. There is wired and wireless internet there, and I heard they also recently added printing.</p>
