<p>I took NEU as a saftey school and I even forgot to send them my SAT scores. Anways, its kinda weird but I got in to the business school (major in international business/German).. which I have no idea what it is...I randomly choose business slash german only bc I've study German for 6 years...since I failed on my other schools, I decide to enroll. Questions!</p>
<p>1) Can somebody please briefly tell me about my major and the college of business? how is the reputation? any advantage?
2) Since I want to transfer after freshmen year, is it hard to get a GPA above 3.8 in the college of Business? (say I want to transfer to Ivy league so I need hard courses)
3) How are the interactions between professors and students? hard to get recommendation letter? any research program in freshmen year?
4) How is the swim team? debate club? theater club? student union?
5) My friend says that the housing is really lame, is it true? how is the LLC of business?</p>
<p>Northeastern’s business school is ranked 25th in the nation by Businessweek for 2013. The college of business received a 60 million dollar donation that named the school in 2012.</p>
<p>Getting a 3.8 GPA is hard everywhere. Also do not count on being able to transfer to an ivy, transfer admissions are even more difficult than freshman admissions. If you got rejected for admission this time around, even if you get a 4.0 GPA next year, don’t count on transferring to an ivy. They will be suspicious of your reason for transferring out, given that most ivies do not offer a business program. Simply telling them that Northeastern doesn’t have a high enough prestige for you will guarantee you get a rejection letter.</p>
<p>I am not a current student, but a current parent so I can answer a little of what you ask with my limited knowledge.</p>
<p>1) Have you gone to any of the admitted students days? They usually provide pretty comprehensive overviews of the programs. I was really impressed with the way Northeastern ran those open houses, and I have been to many.
2) You should contact the ivy school you want to transfer to and find out if they have any recommendations for what you should do if you want to transfer in. It is true that you shouldn’t say you went to Northeastern and consider it inferior, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with telling them that you had hoped to be admitted the first time and are now trying again. I don’t know about ivies, but some schools encourage and admire that. But I also think it’s sad to go off to a college hoping it’s only for the short term.
3) All programs are different. My daughter is in Bouve, and there’s no research freshman year - a lot of required courses and now as a sophomore, she is halfway through her coop. This has been a great experience.
4) Do you mean the club team or the varsity team? Are you a swimmer? The team competes in a conference that gets faster every year. You have to have good times to swim, unless you mean club.
5) Northeastern is a city school. The housing is what you make of it. With that said, I think that the housing process for rising sophomores has been the worst part of the school for us. It went so badly for my daughter and her friends that they moved off campus, even though they had to get special permission to do so. Just hope for a good number when that time comes around - and I also hope that when they finish expanding their living space that Northeastern will address this issue.</p>
<p>Sorry - cannot answer the rest. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>if it’s your safety school, why are you here now? northeastern is getting tougher to get into by the second. its business school is 25th in the nation, #1 in international business opportunities, and kids work with goldman sachs, jp morgan, and other top firms. getting a 3.8 is tough anywhere you go so it’s what you make of it. the interactions between the student and teacher is something that i cannot judge. again, it’s what you make of it. you don’t see the advantages of northeastern (dorm size, internship opportunities, etc.) until after freshmen year. this is to weed out transfer students such as yourself. housing is lame in freshman year but after that, you get access to the beautiful condos that are being built as of now. they are like hotel suites but as i mentioned, only available to the best and brightest of northeastern.</p>
<p>Nathalie, I see from your posting history that ypu were also accepted at Case Western Reserve U. I think that Case would be a better fit for you.</p>
<p>hum, @ TomSrOfBoston why is CWRU a better choice? </p>
<p>basically I didn’t get into other schools simply because I forgot to update my latest SAT scores, (I assumed CB would send them out) which I just found out that most schools only get my old 1750 sat score instead of my new 2300 they didnt see any academic improvement during my gap year! thats why I’m determinate to transfer :)</p>
<p>Wilberry228- My D is deciding whether to attend NU next year (considering BU and Brandeis as well). I have been concerned about housing at NU- could you explain the housing difficulties your D faced? Are the classes challenging? My D is considering pre-med - do you know if NU has grade deflation like people say about BU?</p>
<p>Parent of freshman - housing is only guaranteed for freshman and sophomore year - there is a lottery and if nobody in your rooming group gets a good number you may be left with slim pickings (basically non-suite single or double rooms.) They are building a new dorm by YMCA - I think it will open in 2014 or 15 which should help. I think the classes are challenging, my daughter’s very smart honors friends are not cruising along without working hard. The grading for her has been fair - although her econ teachers have graded on a curve (where they curve the final grade not individual test grades) which makes it very hard to predict your final grade until you receive it.</p>
<p>For housing your second year, you’d probably still get apartment housing. A lot of people want singles, though, so the only way you’d likely get that is if you choose IV. I didn’t find on-campus housing selection to be terribly stressful. It’s more challenging when you’re starting to look for off-campus housing for the first time, and everything is really new to you, and the rental market moves really fast. Northeastern does have an office for off-campus housing, though, which can be really helpful. Currently the YMCA dorm is a pit in the ground. Last I heard they were still saying it would open next summer, but we’ll see… I also heard that they might be decreasing the height of that building. All pretty much speculation at this point, though.</p>
<p>As for grades, I don’t feel that they’re deflated, or inflated. I have a really good GPA, but I’ve worked hard to earn it. Yes, curves can be frustrating because they’re not as predictable, but that really is the fairest way to do it. I know that the curve for organic chemistry, for example, has to be approved by the department, so that’s it’s fair for the class and also fair between different sections and professors.</p>
<p>In terms of housing, I just found this article online. Is it still true that the transitional program will be in a wing of the new dorm?</p>
<p>Northeastern to Keep Housing for Homeless in Former YMCA Building on Huntington Avenue
"In the new 17-story Northeastern dormitory set for construction on Huntington Avenue, 67 units that were part of a long-time transitional program for the homeless will be preserved, the university and the city of Boston announced last week.</p>
<p>In July, Northeastern University purchased 320 Huntington Avenue from the Greater Boston YMCA for $21 million. Last week, the college signed a 20-year lease with the city of Boston and others allowing 67 units of transitional housing to continue to operate in the “Hastings Wing” of the building.</p>
<p>Northeastern bought a wing of the existing YMCA building, which is right next to where the new building is going up. This currently houses students in part of it and the transitional program. I believe prior to that the university had been leasing the student housing space.
This article means that the transitional housing will continue in that wing of the building, not that it will be part of the new construction. Basically, it means nothing’s changing there.</p>
<p>Collegechoice3-my D is a current freshman in IV-beautiful single, suite style with bath shared with one other girl. I was very concerned about the “housing lottery” going forward and was constantly texting her about “lining up choices” “what her option were going to be”. She basically asked me what I was so stressed out about. She had a terrible lottery number, had one definite roommate with also a not great lottery number. They had two friends who they felt could conceivably room with them, also with bad lottery numbers. To me, it didn’t sound like the options were great at all.<br>
However, her new roommate was in class when her time to select came, so it fell to my D. She sat down to see what was available, and chose a one bedroom in West Village. They do not have private bedrooms, and it is not inexpensive, but it looks lovely, they are thrilled and we don’t have to deal with off campus housing yet. My D has a good friend in West Village this year and loves the apartments. They have lots of different room arrangements in West Village, and at Northeastern in general. They felt the key since they didn’t have a great lottery number was too be flexible. Consider all options including either 2 or 4 girls whichever worked best. Worked for them. And since next year is the first year they will (hopefully) be on coop, I am glad we didn’t also have to consider the repercussions of a year long lease, sublets etc as well. Although my D’s friends have all seemed to work through those issues as well.</p>
<p>After my freshman year, my lottery number was so bad I didn’t even get to select my housing. I signed up with 2 others and we put in which buildings were are top choices. We found out over the summer that we got a 4 person apartment in West C, which was pretty nice (honors housing), and I had a randomly assigned roommate (4th person in the apartment), who actually turned out to be pretty cool. College students are resilient. It’s probably true that our parents sometimes get more stressed about these things than we do. The university takes good care of us, too. You’re guaranteed housing for 2 years, so it’s not like you won’t have a place for your 2nd year all of a sudden. And if you don’t like your roommates, you an always change.</p>
northeastern is getting tougher to get into by the second. its business school is 25th in the nation, 
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they didnt see any academic improvement during my gap year!