<p>How many people get accepted into the Honors Program? Is the number listed anywhere?</p>
<p>I think it’s the top 15% of the class?</p>
<p>Top 10%, not sure if it’s of each major or overall.</p>
<p>I read that only the top 10% is CONSIDERED…</p>
<p>It’s 10% of applicants of each college. The number goes up every year, obviously, because of the number of applicants.</p>
<p>Posting from dad’s account again:</p>
<p>It’s not just the top 10%. There are about 500-ish honors freshmen this year, and it’s top 15% and then out of those the ones who are well-rounded and have a lot of community service / leadership stuff from high school. The honors program is really a LOT about social justice and giving back to the community, so the kids who have a lot of stuff like that from high school are the ones who end up in the Honors program.</p>
<p>Uh, actually I’m an honors mentor. I specifically asked the Honors Director if the percentage had increased, seeing as the program exploded in size. I’m also a tour guide and asked the admissions officers.</p>
<p>Both very clearly stated that the percentage was still 10% of applicants. However they did a lot of promotion last year, and we jumped up in ratings again (and the new dorm, I suspect), so a lot more people who had been given honors offers decided to go to Northeastern. That’s why the program jumped to 540-ish. It is NOT 15% now.</p>
<p>neuchimie- my D was just accepted into the honors program. Can you talk about how it is different from being in the “regular” program at NEU? Pluses, minuses…Is it true what was said about it being “a LOT about social justice?” (That’s a good thing for D, but there are always so many rumors running around that it is hard to know what is true and since you are a mentor, you might actually know the truth.) Thanks</p>
<p>So… A lot of these are personal preference, but here are my pluses/minuses from being in it for three years and being a mentor, etc.</p>
<p>Plus: Good dorm, immediately make close friends during honors welcome week, get to take interesting honors seminars, graduate with honors distinction, get to put “honors program” on your resume which helps set you apart (a little, not a lot) during your first coop search, honors department is really helpful and funny, access to international and research scholarships, better chances at doing an independant research project if you want to, sometimes smaller classes (not always though, depends on the class), most people in the program are fun, carefree, etc just like all other students- but they also know when to shut up and study</p>
<p>Neutral: Don’t listen to people when they say honors classes are always easy or always impossible- it COMPLETELY depends on the professor and the department, At the very beginning of school when everyone’s second question is what dorm do you live in some people judge you for being honors (nerds, etc)- but this passes pretty quickly I promise</p>
<p>Minus: There is a bit of pressure your first year when everyone starts realizing that a 3.4 isn’t that easy to get (depends on your major) and I know a few people that would blame the honors program for that- again passes pretty quickly, you have to take 6 honors classes (1 of which is a two semester freshman course and 1 of which has to be an upperclassmen seminar) which is easy if you take a bunch of them your first year and get them out of the way but if you don’t it can be pretty difficult to find non-elective upperclassmen honors courses</p>
<p>Don’t forget- you can always drop out of it. Except disqualifying you from the honors-only scholarships (that you can only get as a middler or above, usually) or if you have some weird outside scholarship that says you have to be honors, dropping out does NOT take away your merit scholarship. However if you drop out of honors because you have a 1.5 gpa… you’ll probably also lose the scholarship, since they nearly always have a minimum gpa requirement.</p>
<p>Oh, and the “social justice” thing… So the honors program has a required community service day when you first get to campus, and they have one in the spring that is for people who came into the program late. They also have a mini-LLC (within the honors LLC) that’s called something related to community service or social justice or something. Also the books they tend to make freshmen read usually have a community-related aspect to them, since they try to pick books about Boston and Bostonian books nearly always are about racial issues, busing crisis, poverty, etc. </p>
<p>But trust me, been here for three years and except for reading Easter Rising my freshman year and knocking on people’s doors for a few hours to try to get them to vote, I haven’t been around anything that screams SOCIAL JUSTICE.</p>
<p>However Northeastern really likes kids who volunteer, and there is a full-tuition scholarship for people with crazy huge amounts of volunteering (I know a kid who got it due to 1500+ hours in high school). But there is no actual evidence that a kid with a bad gpa will get in if he did lots of volunteering. The top 10% is ranked in the same way they do it when considering applications- which is a method you can guess all you want about, but you’ll never really find out.</p>
<p>Is it true that the Honors residence area is secluded from the rest of the campus?</p>
<p>@dudecollege: Read this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/1051893-honors.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/1051893-honors.html</a></p>
<p>Oh, haha. Yeah, just saw it right after I posted the question here. Thanks!</p>