Northeastern: Tell Me All About It

<p>Emily -- my D is a premed at NEU (behavioral neuroscience) and she would not disagree with you a whole lot.</p>

<p>Innovational- Congrats to you on your acceptance to NEU and Nova,
My s was waitlisted to Nova, accepted to NEU and BC,
We are coming up to Boston to visit both, I agree that the location of NEU is just outstanding compared to Nova, I have similar questions about the diversity of students at NEU and BC. Good Luck to You!</p>

<p>Thank you Mom43! Please let me know how it turns out!</p>

<p>Innovational- thank you and good luck to you, I have to add that while we were not impressed with the biology department at Nova ( so outdated ), we were impressed with the Business School. My s is going to major in Neuroscience and NEU is one of the few schools that offers it as Undergrad major. Nova's business school has a great reputation, my older son who attends Penn has a few friends there and it is a short train/drive to Philadelphia. They get together often in the city.</p>

<p>Katliamom- My S is interested in the Neuroscience major at NEU what can you tell me about it, he will be pre-med.</p>

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I did not mean to imply that all health science and business majors are total idiots and that the boring kids only hang out in those majors, I think you read a little to much into it.

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<p>I read too much into it? Certainly seemed to me that you were implying it...</p>

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Most students are from surrounding areas with no interest in what's going on in the rest of the world. They're business majors or health science majors and don't understand...They'd rather choose making money over doing something they're really passionate about. They don't want to travel or hear about politics.

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<p>I'm not trying to be a prick...just saying I completely disagree with you, and if you weren't trying to imply it, my bad...I guess I misunderstood your post.</p>

<p>2 questions.</p>

<p>1) If I wanted to transfer to the business school (Maybe management?), how would I go about doing so? How about for the honors program?</p>

<p>2) If my family financial situation changes drastically for my sophomore year (Currently we are receiving no FA due to having another home - asset) will NEU be generous with the FA? If we were to sell the home and then put the money in retirement (Effectively "hiding" the money), would NEU give us a break? I was put into a seemingly unfair position because of the extra asset...and my parents might end up paying full tuition for the first year.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>someone will correct me if I am wrong, but if you sell a second home you have now just shifted an asset from real estate to cash. The govt. doesn't care if your parents want to keep it for retirement, it still counts as an asset. There is no "hiding" the money.</p>

<p>I talked to my schools Financial adviser. He told me if the cash is put into retirement funds, the government does not weigh it as heavily. </p>

<p>Our other proposed idea is to sell the additional asset as well as our current home and purchase a more expensive house (since FAFSA + CSS Profile does not factor in the current home you live in). </p>

<p>-My adviser did say that schools tend not to significantly change FA packages for the remaining for years. Is this true?</p>

<p>All of this needs to be done in order for my family to financially be able to help me get through college.</p>

<p>All help is appreciated. Thanks.</p>

<p>Because paying for college is considered the responsibility of families and students, equity in a home or homes is considered available to pay for college. Selling a second home and moving the money to a retirement account, or selling both homes and buying a more expensive house, will not help; what your parents do with their assets will be obvious in their tax forms and schools will expect them to use the money from their assets to pay for your education, even if they must now incur penalties to access the money. If the loopholes you described existed, everyone would make use of them. Your adviser is correct about schools not significantly changing financial aid packages for later college years. The only exception is a big change in the family i.e. the death of a parent.</p>

<p>Ah, okay. Thank you.</p>

<p>Anyone know about transfers?</p>

<p>Curious as to why you ruled out Drexel? </p>

<p>My son was accepted to NU but for Spring 2009 - but the expect him to be caught up with his 'class' by fall of 2009, which seems kind of harsh. He liked NU a lot but is also considering UNH, UMass and Drexel (for Chemical Engineering).</p>

<p>Thx, Dan D</p>

<p>Dan D, just curious if your S expects to receive many AP/IB credits esp for classes freshman engineering students typically take - perhaps that is one reason why they think he could catch up? If so, then by starting a semester later, he would stay on track with his peers as far as coordinating co-ops and class schedules for the upper years...just a thought.</p>

<p>No, he didn't take any AP classes in HS.... The frustrating part is that he did not apply to any local colleges, so it's not like he could register locally for a semester, take those courses, then start at NU in the spring. Basically, NU told us that they had too many students for the fall, and accepted 400 for the spring based on having about 400 students graduating in December. So it's really just a way for them to cram in more students - but put the responsibility on the student to get caught up. That turned me off a bit. </p>

<p>Right now, he's deciding between UMass and Drexel, having eliminated UNH last night!</p>

<p>Dan D</p>

<p>aren't there any local community colleges that still have open registration? If all else fails he could get an off-campus apartment and take courses down here at bunker hill CC or something.</p>

<p>The local CC's here in NJ don't have any of the engineering-specific courses he'd need to take - calculus for engineers, etc..... I also don't think he wants to wait until February to go to school! And for co-op programs, Drexel is excellent, just like NU, and he got a good scholarship at Drexel (and UMass) as well....</p>

<p>Dan D</p>

<p>Drexel is a very good school and really similar to neu so it's very good that he has that option available. Just to make sure, neu did give you the link to check out transfer courses right? Sometimes neu administration can be a bit of a pain. Just in case, <a href="http://admissintra.nunet.neu.edu/transfercredit/transfercreditevaluatedstudent2.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissintra.nunet.neu.edu/transfercredit/transfercreditevaluatedstudent2.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>After a long hard time, i've (my parents included) decided to go to NEU. Thanks again for all the help!</p>

<p>A few questions: Is it possible to receive scholarships (from NEU) if one does really well freshman year?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>I was wondering the same thing</p>

<p>There are a few, however, even though they are merit-driven, most of them also have a need based requirement.</p>