<p>Northeastern is safe. I don’t understand why people continue to comment on this. Go and check the campus out yourself.</p>
<p>does anyone know exactly how the rooms are set up for freshmen honors kids? thanks</p>
<p>Two doubles connected by a bathroom.</p>
<p>You can transfer into honors after one semester here if you have a 3.6 gpa. Once in, you have to keep a 3.4 (3.0 and above gets a year to bring it up, 3.0 and below is kicked out). </p>
<p>You won’t be accepted as a junior, sorry. You need to graduate with six honors classes, so they only accept people up until their middler year because it’s near impossible to get the honors courses in without getting in before then. For example, most people do three or four of their honors courses freshman year, and yet I know several people who don’t think they will be able to get all their honors classes in.</p>
<p>You can however be accepted into the honors program as a junior if you want to complete an honors junior/senior project. It’s not common, but it does happen. Go talk to the honors department right away if you are interested.</p>
<p>If there are any students in honors program who could talk about what the actual benefits of being in the honors program are; for example is it easier to get co-ops, courses? Is advising better for honors students? or anything else. Just trying to get an idea for the difference being in the honors program makes in the whole Northeastern experience. Thanks</p>
<p>are the double rooms standard sized-bed, dresser, desk, closet?</p>
<p>@expatme: I’m just a freshman in honors, so I don’t have too too much experience with it so far. The best benefit for me has been the housing-- International Village is amazing compared to the other freshmen dorms. The classes are designed to be smaller, but my Macroeconomics class still had about 50 or 60 students in it. I really enjoyed my honors First Year Inquiries series class, Global Climate Change.</p>
<p>Also, the honors program was selling symphony tickets a few months ago and my friends and I bought Nutcracker tickets for $15 apiece. I don’t know if everyone would enjoy those benefits though.</p>
<p>@Ny0rker: The doubles in IV are pretty standard-sized, I think. A lot of the rooms are set up differently for some reason though. My room is probably the most standard. My bed is lofted, so that the two sets of drawers fit under it. Our closets are side by side, right when you walk in. And our sink is in our room. And we each have a desk.</p>
<p>My friends, on the other hand, have bunked beds with their desks underneath each bed. They each stacked their two sets of drawers so they stand up. And they have two sinks in their bathroom. </p>
<p>Let me know if you guys have any more questions!</p>
<p>Wait, I’m confused about the classes. Do Honors students take…</p>
<p>a) same classes as non-honors students, and then extra classes that are considered “honors”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>b) honor-only classes, that consist of honor-only students, but are the same thing that non-honors are studying</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>^In your time at Northeastern, you are required to take 6 honors classes if you are in the honors program.</p>
<p>This past semester, I took:
Inquiries into Science & Technology: Global Climate Change (honors)
Principles of Macroeconomics (honors)
Globalization and International Affairs
Advanced Spanish I
Connections and Decisions (a 1 credit course for undeclared students)
Enhancing Honors (honors) (a 1 credit course for first-year honors students)</p>
<p>As you can see, some classes you take are honors, and some are not. Next semester, I won’t be taking any honors courses. Fortunately, the 1 credit Enchancing Honors (meets once a week) counts as a full honors course (and thus counts towards the 6 required courses). You also have to take an honors seminar, in sophomore year or after (which also counts as one of the six). </p>
<p>Also, my Global Climate Change class, because it is part of the Inquiries series, is only open to honors students, while there are non-honors sections of Principles of Macroeconomics for other students to take.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long explanation… let me know if it doesn’t make sense!</p>
<p>@blinkangel44: You’re a star buddy! That’s a perfect explanation. Now I want to ask is what exactly is the difference between the honors version of a class compared to the non-honors? More work? More material is covered?</p>
<p>more on what moemalik asked, how many people are their in the honors classes? </p>
<p>so basically, for dorming, you just have a standard double with a bathroom attached. and that bathroom is also attached to another double? so four to one bathroom? i would like to see pictures of this because it sounds interesting but i don’t seem to be able to find any anywhere </p>
<p>also, thanks for all the help blinkangel44!</p>
<p>What were the requirements to get into the honor’s program?</p>
<p>The top 10% of the incoming class is automatically invited into the honors program. There is no separate application, and the honors information (and/or Dean’s scholarship) is released to you with your acceptance decision.</p>
<p>top 10% by gpa or by test scores?</p>
<p>@Ny0rker</p>
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<p>" top 10% by gpa or by test scores? "</p>
<p>Everything. Imagine the honors program being a college with a 10% acceptance rate. The top 10% of those who are accepted into Northeastern are invited into the honors program. I assume they use the same factors as they do for admission… GPA, course rigor, test scores, leadership, community, and other extra curriculars.</p>
<p>yeah i got the 16k scholarship and the honors program but my stats aren’t amazingly higher, some people had higher stats than me and got the 17k scholarship but no honors so i guess it is holistic</p>
<p>@MoeMalik: I think it varies greatly by the course and the professor. My roommate (Engineering) said that for her honors classes (as compared to non-honors), Chem was more difficult and covered more material, Calc 1 went more in-depth, and Engineering Design was no different. I think my Macro class was pretty comparable to non-honors, but we may have covered a couple of more things. The biggest difference with all honors vs. non-honors is the size of the class.</p>
<p>@Ny0rker: My honors Macro class had 50 or 60 people in it… I’m not sure if they went over the cap. But my roommate’s classes were significantly smaller. Her calc class had like 8 students in it. And yes, two doubles that share a bathroom. And I think the tours they’re giving now go thru IV… not sure if they’re showing the rooms or not though (maybe not).</p>
<p>Keep the questions coming! I remember what it was like being in your positions last year… best of luck!</p>
<p>“And yes, two doubles that share a bathroom. And I think the tours they’re giving now go thru IV… not sure if they’re showing the rooms or not though (maybe not).”</p>
<p>When I visited, at the end of the tour they asked if anyone wanted to tour IV, so my family and one other family took the add-on tour. They showed us the bottom floor (fitness center, cafeteria), and then they showed us a dorm. For some reason, though, they showed us a handicap dorm which the tour guide admitted was larger than a regular dorm. I have no idea why they did that, maybe it was the only available one. So I’m not exactly sure how big the regular IV dorms are, but the handicap one was way bigger than the Stetson (non-handicap) dorms.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the IV dorms are bigger than, say, Stetson dorms? I know about the bathroom setup, I’m just asking about the room itself.</p>
<p>Congrats everyone who made it into the program! I’m really psyched about this doubles set up with the bathroom. Does anyone know what the weekend scene is like for the honors kids? Hopefully this doesn’t sound mean, but do the honors program kids go out a lot on the weekends?</p>
<p>oh this is another important question. do people come in to clean the bathroom? or do the students need to clean them themselves?</p>