Is Northeastern A Good Fit For Me?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm starting to garner a really strong interest in Northeastern...do you guys think it's a good fit for me?</p>

<p>I would like to be in a big city, I love hockey, want to play it in school, whether D1/D3/Club/Intramural, I like a school with a name that people recognize. I'm relatively laid back but still like to have fun. I don't mind the cold weather but don't prefer it (from NY). I think co-op is pretty cool, considering you could make a really good dime and I'd set about 80% of my paychecks aside to pay off tuition. Five years of college seems cool (paying for four), only in college once at such a young age so an extra year could be more rewarding and fun.</p>

<p>One of my closer friend hockey teammates submitted his deposit and got into the NU.in program, (which I did also), which is where you study abroad your first semester in Costa Rica, London, Australia, Greece or Ireland. (He picked London, I wanted to go to Australia but due to departure date I'd be more likely I'd choose London). I know you shouldn't go to college and room with your best friend, but he's not, we don't even go to the same school, it'll be nice knowing someone at least.</p>

<p>I like the city of Boston, not necessarily their sport teams though hahaha. I have a friend on the Northeastern women's ice hockey team and she really likes the school.</p>

<p>On the academics side, I am planning on double majoring in Journalism and Accounting (not sure which I'd co-op in) with a possible minor in Sociology. I don't know much about the housing and food that Northeastern offers. I want to study abroad in Prague, because I have a lot of family there, and they offer a 1month summer program for not too much in 9k.</p>

<p>What is the campus feel like, with how the students are?</p>

<p>I feel like it's a good fit for me but I'm not sure...Any other things I should know about the school, or your thoughts? Thanks for any help...</p>

<p>Other Schools I am considering: UPittsburgh, Boston University, University of Denver, Pepperdine, UMaine, Xavier, Butler.</p>

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<p>It sounds like you’d enjoy Northeastern, though you should know sports aren’t that big a part of the school. Co–op is, though, so you should really be be excited about it because it’s a HUGE part of life at the school: from your sophomore year on, at any given time during the year, a lot of your friends will disappear off campus. So it affects the school’s atmosphere. And you can certainly save money while you’re on co-op, but don’t forget that you’ll still be paying rent… which as you know isn’t cheap in Boston. So you’ll save some, but maybe less than you expect, especially if you co-op in journalism, which doesn’t tend to pay well. For details about Northeastern’s dorms, check out the Northeastern thread in the ‘colleges’ section of the forum. But the school has a lot of options, everything from crummy cinder-block doubles, to cool suites in brownstones and luxury highrises. Food – well, if you don’t like what they’re serving on campus, you have plenty of other options all over downtown Boston to choose from.</p>

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<p>Hockey **is **pretty big at NEU! And there are lots of other sports too (including intramural) but it is not the type of school where the sports teams are the *focus *of school activity or school pride. Like Clemson or Notre Dame for example.
But from the campus you can easily walk to Fenway Park, or to “The Garden” (take the streetcar) to see the Bruins or Celtics. So it is a great city for sports.</p>

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<p>Northeastern has a good club sports and intramural sports program if you don’t get recruited for the DI team. Some friends of DS who were accounting majors got great co-op jobs that paid > $25 per hour with Price Waterhouse Cooper and other accounting firms. Lots to do there and the students are really friendly. DS has been there for 6-years in the pharmD program and particpated in club sports. Having friends leave for co-ops from time to time didn’t seem to have a big impact and many of them do co-ops in the Boston area so they just stay in their student housing. Freshman dorms (Stetson) with the health sciences living & learning community were great for making friends and getting to know a lot of people that you hang out with the rest of your college years. Lots of options for housing afterwards – depending on what you want and what budget you have to work with.</p>