<p>Hello!
I am applying EA to Northeastern, and I have heard from counselors and friends that the campus is extremely urban. I heard that you can find a school building right next to a business. I was just wondering what the campus feel is like at this school if it is so intertwined with the city. Thank you!</p>
<p>No doubt about it… Northeastern is right in the middle of the city. There are busy streets, T station, etc (which allows great access to all of Boston, which our son loves). But the interior of the campus has a surprisingly campus-y feel. </p>
<p>It is certainly not as lovely and sprawling as BC. It is much more campus-y than BU (which to us seemed more like a strip mall campus).</p>
<p>I had an old link to virtual tour that no longer works. I see this new one
[Virtual</a> Tour](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/virtualtour.html]Virtual”>Visit and Connect | Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>Northeastern is really “campusy” when you’re… on campus. For example, the library sits in a quad with red brick sidewalks lined in trees/green, and if you look around all you’ll see are students and campus buildings. When you’re going from class to class, or to the library, or the student center, it feels like a college campus. Definitely not a Sprawling New England Liberal Arts campus like BC, campus is fairly compact and it takes about 15 minutes to walk from one end to the other.</p>
<p>But, at the edge of campus, in all directions, you hit the city. One direction down Huntington is the Museum of Fine Arts and Longwood Hospitals/Harvard Med, the other end is busy Mass ave and the Prudential. </p>
<p>So, you’ll feel like a college kid when you’re on campus, but once you step off you’re in the middle of the city. (Win/Win)</p>
<p>Ohhh okay, yeah I’m definetly looking for an urban enviroment but still want to feel like I’m in the middle of a campus. That is good to know, thank you very much!</p>
<p>Exactly what they said. My daughter is a freshman and loves it. We toured the campus to make sure it was a good fit. It is an award-winning campus (twice) and feels like college. It is not like GWU in DC or like BU. However, there is city around it. It’s more like USC in LA< except the mass transit in Boston rocks.</p>
<p>I recommend trying to get into their honors program, if they offer it to you. All honors students live in a brand-new dorm called International Village right next to the Ruggles T-stop. And, NU has tunnels that lead from some of the buildings to others, so in the winter you can stay out of the snow between classes. There are no businesses on campus that aren’t shops or eating places for the school.</p>
<p>Oh ok, thank you! Yeah I’m applying to USC as well, and I really like the campus but the public transit is horrible. That’s good news that Northeastern’s is much better. Thats a good plan, yeah I’ll just have to wait til the end of this month to find out the results!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I went to USC and I’m from San Diego. It’s a great school, but so similar to the environment I already knew. I think if I had to do it over again and was from the Bay Area like you, I’d rather go to school in Boston than in LA. Hope you get to choose.</p>
<p>That’s good to know! Thanks for that. Yeah, at this point I’m really torn because I’ve already gotten into Loyola Marymount, but my hopes aren’t very high for USC because my grades aren’t good enough. I feel like I have a decent chance at Northeastern, so it’ll probably be down to those two. I do love the Boston area, and have heard really good things about the east coast from my friends at Yale and Princeton. It’s a tough choice!!</p>
<p>I’m a freshman and I’m from the Bay Area and I absolutely love Northeastern. I agree with what everyone pretty much has said. The campus is very compact but you definitely feel like you are in college. Also, I find that it is very rare that campuses in cities such as Boston have a right balance between a city feel and a campus feel. Northeastern definitely has a nice balance of the two. I never visited campus because of my busy senior year schedule but I am definitely glad I chose Northeastern. For me life at Northeastern and the city of Boston, was a pleasant and much needed change from Bay Area life. Also, it is surprising that I have met a lot of people from CA and more specifically the bay area. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about northeastern or the city of boston.</p>
<p>Ahh thank you so much! That’s really helpful. What is the student life like?!</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman there and loves it. We’re originally from Seattle but she lived with us in Berlin for two years before she went there, so she was looking for a good school in a major city with mass transit and a great feel.</p>
<p>She got into honors, and she made about 10 friends during orientation and the honors program team building exercises that followed right before school started. She l-o-v-e-s it! I am looking forward to talking in depth with her next week when she flies back to Germany for Christmas, but the fit is just right for her. </p>
<p>She loves the campus feel, the modern quality of the buildings and facilities, the fact everything is reachable in 15 min, and her dorm which is only a year old. She has her own room and shares a bathroom with another girl. She said next year, she and some of her friends will get a suite in another dorm with a common living room. The food is healthy and modern and she loves to go to the Starbucks in the Curry Student Center. </p>
<p>She loves Boston. Her friends go shopping in Cambridge (where Harvard is) or the theater district. She was dancing around in the fall leaves because she loves New England fall foliage, just happy as can be.</p>
<p>Maybe I can get her to get on this site over Christmas. Right now she’s in finals.</p>
<p>Student life is great. There is definitely a lot to do on campus, but if you get bored of that, you can always find a lot of things to do off campus. There are a lot of clubs, student groups and greek life is growing at Northeastern if you’re into that kind of stuff. Also, intramurals are a lot of fun and are a great way to meet new people.</p>