Looking for tips for how admitted students can best get info they need to make a final decision. My son is looking for info from 2 different majors (combined degree), honors, and how to coordinate all three, and how it all really works in practice. His admission counselor is not being super helpful. He tried reaching out to some profs who are advisors for the combined degree - same thing. Would an honors college contact be helpful? It concerns me a bit that it is already so challenging to find someone who can talk to him about this. We are visiting next week and it would really help his decision-making process if he could talk to the right people while we’re there. Thanks for any tips!
If you are able to, visiting Northeastern in person for the Welcome Day would certainly be helpful to figure everything out.
Pretty sure the admissions office is swamped with requests the past few days. Perhaps contact the department chairs. Their emails/phone numbers should be in the website.
Im a combined major so if you have any questions im available
I agree with earlier post to contact department chairs and/or professors. They might also be able to share contacts of current students to reach out to. I know my D is presenting at her college admitted students day for CAMD and my older d did for her college. Might try the honors college directly too. Many of these would have more specific info than Admissions to help you with the decision. Call ahead and you likely can set up an apt to talk with the dept chair or specific prof…we have always found depts and profs to be very accessible.
I would definitely try to get in contact (see if you can figure out who their honors advisor would be based on their major). I’m actually at the honors welcome day right now. I think they’ll be eager to help and somewhat less swamped than admissions is right now.
@nanotechnology I wish we could have made it to honors welcome day today. Would love to see a rundown of the activities we missed. Did they do a tour of East Village? Any new info on the honors program changes.?
@TexasMom2017 I am a combined major with a minor, so I can help answer some questions in that area if you’d like.
@suzyQ7 This was the information update on the Honors Program that tour guides were given for the Honors Welcome Day today:
“Key aspects in addition to Honors courses and faculty-mentored research include “Networked Communities, Civic Engagement, and the Global Bank Account.”
Honors students will participate in small, 19 person Honors Courses. The Honors Discovery course (1SH) is required for freshmen and now includes a civic engagement aspect through an experiential service learning module. Honors course offerings include Honors courses within majors and interdisciplinary Honors courses with first year options and upperclass options. Students will be living in LLC’s in East Village and students will be grouped into Honors Husky Packs, which are cohort-style groups that will pursue their own learning opportunities! A unique aspect of Honors LLCs is that students will have the opportunity to contribute their ideas for LLC topics this spring!
The Global Bank Account provides and encourages Honors students to take advantage of the variety of global, experiential learning opportunities that Northeastern has to offer. Northeastern will cover the dialogue fee for honors students if they participate in a Dialogue of Civilizations following their first year (students will still be required to pay for tuition costs) AND Northeastern will provide additional financial support for one additional global experience of their choice!”
"Northeastern will cover the dialogue fee for honors students if they participate in a Dialogue of Civilizations following their first year (students will still be required to pay for tuition costs)“AND Northeastern will provide additional financial support for one additional global experience of their choice!”
this is great! We knew about the global co-op, but this is new.
@TragicComedy - can you share a link to that Honors DOC info? My D is a frosh honors student and seems they haven’t been notified of this new perk…
@twicemama Unfortunately I don’t have a link, it was just given to tour guides before the Welcome Day for us to include in our interactions with accepted students.
It would be great if NEU could update the website (or notify students) of the new perks. You’d think this was in their best interest since students are deciding (between now and May 1st) if they are choosing NEU or another school.