<p>I'm a rising senior in high school with a 3.9 GPA and 33 on my ACT. I will have taken 8 IB classes by the end of high school. </p>
<p>-Are honors freshman secluded from other freshman? Do honors students tend to only hang with other honors students or is it easy to branch out?</p>
<p>-How many mandatory honors classes do you have to take? Is there anything else that differentiates you as an "honor" student? Are your co-op programs any different? Any benefits not offered to other students?</p>
<p>-Are honors students more stressed than others? Is the work load much heavier?</p>
<p>-How are honor students differentiated from others in their major? (I plan to major in Business with a focus in Marketing)</p>
<p>-Can an honor student join a sorority?</p>
<p>-What is the stereotype of an honor student at Northeastern?</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post, just trying to figure some things out before applying in the fall. Thank you :)</p>
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<li><p>There are dozens of threads about this. Short answer: honors students live in a dorm a little away from other freshmen, but more people don’t mind too much.</p></li>
<li><p>6 honors classes, one of which is a first-semester enhancing honors course you’re seeded into and one of which must be an honors seminar. Most people take the other 4 as honors versions of normal required courses or core electives. Co-ops aren’t different at all. Honors (in most people’s opinions) get slightly better housing their first year.</p></li>
<li><p>Honors courses are usually not significantly harder than any normal class. Most times I found my honors courses to be identical or even easier than normal classes. Entirely depends on the professor. But a non-honors engineering student would likely be more stressed than an honors CJ student.</p></li>
<li><p>Not at all, in most cases. Once my econ advisor called the econ honors kids in to pitch honors junior/senior projects to them- but the entire point was to pitch the HONORS projects, so it made sense that it was only honors students. I suppose it’s possible some majors do other things, but I haven’t heard of it.</p></li>
<li><p>Of course.</p></li>
<li><p>There is none. I knew plenty who stayed up late studying, plenty who barely kept up the gpa because they partied literally every night, plenty who just happened to take the honors courses but didn’t work any harder than non-honors (such as myself). Some worked really hard and got a bunch of job offers, some did fancy international programs, some graduated two months ago and are still living at home without a job…</p></li>
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<p>Is it possible to take Honors Freshman English if you are not in the honors program?</p>
<p>No. All courses labelled Honors are for honors students only.</p>
<p>Gotcha. I figured that much. I just wondered if they might offer any remaining slots that go unfilled by the time classes start, but I guess not.</p>