Scholarship but no honors

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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Hi, I just got accepted into the engineering department of NE and was given a 20,000 dollar per year scholarship. However, I was not invited into the honors program and I was wondering if this was a normal occurence

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I got accepted in Honors with no scholarship and all I can say is I would much rather be in your place

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^ Same. And I think it is normal to have both things happen; it seems to be a part of this school’s admissions process.

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Yes, it’s normal. I believe it is because merit awards are decided by admissions while Honors is decided by each college - since you got in for engineering, my guess is that there were more high stats engineers that got honors, but from the whole admissions pool you were in the top 25% who receive merit - probably closer to top 10% based on your merit award amount.

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Same here. Engineering dept, mega merit, no honors. Totally baffled. Stats are very high.

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That is not true, my D got into engineering honor program with only 18k scholarship.

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I thought i had good enough numbers to get into the honors program (3.97 unweighted 35 ACT) but i guess the program is more competitive than i thought

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It’s not fully stats based: it’s a holistic process. With two separate holistic processes, you would get the random appearing results as they could both look for different things.

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To those of you with scholarships but not honors: if you keep a high GPA in your first semester or two, you can apply to join the honors program after your first or second semester.

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Same

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what is the GPA requirement to keep your scholarship all 4 years?

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@mom2engkids

Looks like 3.0 (although I’m in the program and thought that it was 3.5)

Source: http://www.northeastern.edu/universityscholars/prospective-scholars/faqs/#11

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For Scholars there is also a requirement to complete 100 hours of community service per year. Northeastern arranges the placements.

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Scholarships have real value. The honors program, while nice, doesn’t necessarily have any tangible benefits other than better access to some classes and preferred dorms. It won’t really make any difference in the long run.