Northeastern University (NEU) (2025-2026)

[ebon coyote]

oh I didn't get mine 😭

[wind hornet]

Even I didn’t

[ebon coyote]

stupid asset confirmation

[hot sage]

if anyone here has been deferred in past years did you get in in RD?

[vital rapids]

I did the early financial aid read thing maybe that’s why

[ebon coyote]

they could've had me fill that out a while ago yknow, while they decided to only let me fill it out after admittance is dumb af

[wind hornet]

U got in for London scholars as well right ?

[ebon coyote]

I did that too but they didn't ask for an asset confirmation from me until now

[vital rapids]

Yeah

[vital rapids]

That’s wsird

[wind hornet]

U planning to go?

[vital rapids]

Weird

[vital rapids]

Not after seeing the coa

102k and I got a 5k scholarship so 97k

[wind hornet]

Ur international?

[vital rapids]

Nah I’m from nj

[wind hornet]

Oh

[pure brook]

Can i ask how ur course rigor was in hs …

[wind hornet]

97k per year ?

[ebon coyote]

OMG I MEMORIZED MY SSN FINALLY 🤩

[wind hornet]

Wtf

[vital rapids]

Yes

Per year

[pure brook]

WHATA

[wind hornet]

For international then how much?

[ebon coyote]

I can now login to idoc without having to find my ssn or id 😭

[wind hornet]

Ainnoway I’m going

[pure brook]

ok maybe i shouldnt complain

[vital rapids]

I’m being dead serious too 😭

[pure brook]

😭😭😭

[vital rapids]

But we don’t qualify for any need based

[ebon coyote]

london is more expensive

[wind hornet]

😭😭😭

How do I calculate my COA

[wind hornet]

As an international student

[pure brook]

Holy moly

[ebon coyote]

coa is the same for everyone and then they subtract whatever scholarship you get from it

so, COA at boston is like 94k iirc

[weak citrus]

8 APs I think rest honors. Regardless of HS rigor you will get overwhelmed at a certain point it’s fate lol

[ebon coyote]

minus whatever your scholarship is would be your personal coa

[wind hornet]

I heard for international it’s higher ?

[ebon coyote]

probably yes

[vital rapids]

97k is crazy ngl

[grizzled pendant]

as long as you have above a 1.8 GPA and take enough credits

[vital rapids]

I did nyu ed2 and even that isn’t this expensive

[pure brook]

Wait can i ask which campus this is?

[odd condor]

wait 97k is insane

[vital rapids]

First year London

[pure brook]

😭😭😭

[ebon coyote]

I thought NYU was like 96k coa?

[odd condor]

I didn't know it was that high

[vital rapids]

I put commuter so I save like 25k cuz I live 30 mins away lmao

[pure brook]

Ah that is true lol

[ebon coyote]

ohhhhhhhhhh

[weak citrus]

3 t stops on campus roughly

[ebon coyote]

ok well no wonder it's cheaper for you 😭

[vital rapids]

Even if I put housing for nyu it’s still less than 97k

[ebon coyote]

housing puts the coa at 102k for NYU

and that's for stern

[vital rapids]

My nyu npc said 90k for stern

[wind hornet]

wait this is what i found

[vital rapids]

That’s still expensive but it’s less than neu

[weak citrus]

Lmk if u have other questions

[ebon coyote]

oh that's minus financial aid and scholarship no?

[grizzled mountain]

that’s actually insane

[vital rapids]

Yeah

If I put housing that’s what mine would’ve been

[ebon coyote]

not including personal expenses, textbooks, and travel. Those make it more expensive than boston

[pure brook]

Yay! Can i dm u in the future for questions

[grizzled pendant]

apparently, people say because it doesn't include food and some other expenses, it winds up being like $100k

[wind hornet]

oh cooked

100k is insane

[hasty snow]

the neu thread became which school should i go to since neu is too expensive thread

[grizzled pendant]

and in the past, london gets the least aid from what i read

[weak citrus]

Happy to help!

[ebon coyote]

NEU is stingy af

[grizzled pendant]

you can't even use federal money for london

[ebon coyote]

they're so freaking stingy man

[vital rapids]

90k so how are they charging me 102k 😭

They’re scamming me

[grizzled pendant]

so pell grant is useless for london

[ebon coyote]

damn

[ebon coyote]

tbf pell grant doesn't cover much

[grizzled pendant]

i mean 7.4k ain't nothing

[ebon coyote]

at most it's like $7000, it just tells the college how much they should give you

[vital rapids]

My friend got in last year for ed and he got like 20k in scholarships but idk if that’s merit or not

[ebon coyote]

probs merit

[grizzled mountain]

if your pell grant is 7k shouldn’t you be getting a bunch of need based aid

[ebon coyote]

which, idk how I didn't get max honors merit scholarship bc my rigor was through the roof

[hasty snow]

i think neu offers like 5-10k in merit max for freshmen, no?

[grizzled pendant]

neu mostly gives need based to boston admits

[grizzled mountain]

ah that sucks

[grizzled pendant]

very little to oakland/nyc and almost none to london/NU.in

[pure brook]

Ooh whats the max merit scholarship

[ebon coyote]

nah I got 14k and someone else got 27k

[pure brook]

Is there a cap

[ebon coyote]

no clue, all ik is that someone else on here got 27k with no financial aid and I ended up with 14k so I assume there's a range

[rocky wasp]

REJECTEDDD ❤️🎆🔥

lol

[manic pier]

Bruh

[grizzled pendant]

are you sure? rejected? not deferred?

[hasty snow]

when is ed2 coming out

[rocky wasp]

i did get into NU London tho…atleast

[rocky wasp]

Yes, rejected

[grizzled mountain]

😭 i think they know

[grizzled pendant]

how can you get into NEU London and still be rejected?

[rocky wasp]

Intl applying for aid ✋

Idk

[vital rapids]

He probably means rejected from Boston

[rocky wasp]

Oh yes

[hasty snow]

aris being completely flabbergasted someone actually got rejected instead of deferred from neu

[grizzled mountain]

well boston is 5% so 😭

[grizzled pendant]

london guarantees admission to boston after year 1

[pure brook]

Wait this is the honors scholarship right not the grant

[vital rapids]

The ed is like 40%

[ebon coyote]

yes

[grizzled mountain]

the way they didn’t even get rejected, they got into london 🤦‍♂️

[rocky wasp]

Oh rlly i didnt know

[hasty snow]

overall for ea/rd is 5% ish

[odd condor]

almost everyone i know only got into london

from my school at least

[vital rapids]

My friend got Oakland

[grizzled mountain]

my 2 friends who got in got oakland and london (which was his top)

[hasty snow]

for ea or ed?

[odd condor]

ea

[ebon coyote]

I thought I'd be kicked to london so I'm surprised I got boston

[grizzled pendant]

there's a 3 yr london program, but i think that's pretty rare. most are the 1 yr program, which then guarantees boston in yrs 2 and beyond as long as you don't flunk out

[odd condor]

actually some of them might've gotten oakland but there was only one guy who got boston

[ebon coyote]

maybe it's cuz I put down that I wouldn't go to oakland or anywhere else other than boston/london on the common app

[odd condor]

and he has a 3.8 gpa so it was pretty unexpected

[wind hornet]

i think the major also matters a lot

people with worse stats than me got boston cuz of their major

[grizzled mountain]

a 3.8 is a good gpa so that makes sense 😭

and apps are holistic

[pure brook]

Soo if i got a high enough scholarship they will unlikely give me more money 😔😔

[odd condor]

i mean yeah it's a fine gpa

[ebon coyote]

yep

[odd condor]

but so many of the people who got other campuses had like 4.0s or near 4.0

[lunar pike]

deferred now idk if i should be ed ii or rd

:P

[pure brook]

Rip my wallet bro 💔💔💔

[ebon coyote]

what was his rigor?

[wind hornet]

what majors

[ebon coyote]

neu doesn't admit by major so it doesn't matter

[odd condor]

we were all either cs or eng

[hasty snow]

i’m surprised i got boston too, i did apply ED but my gpa is like a 3.2 (i think it’s a 3.2, it’s an 82/100 in my country, they don’t do the 4.0 scale ) and got in directly to khoury for CS

[odd condor]

the guy that got boston was cs

[ebon coyote]

damn 💀

[odd condor]

i don't really know but his ECs weren't like anything crazy

[wind hornet]

oh what 💀

[grizzled pendant]

was just about to say.. you can get accepted for art history and switch to engineering right now

[ebon coyote]

yeah, your major doesn't affect a lot

[odd condor]

I think he did like 12 AP classes

[ebon coyote]

tbf they probs aren't gonna accept like 500 engineering majors so they might have a mild limit

but I doubt it's gonna be highly considered

[grizzled pendant]

it lets me change the major in the pull down menu right on the portal. lol. from what someone else told me, it just regens the acceptance letter with the new major.

[ebon coyote]

that might be why

[versed dove]

12 APs is crazy to me, at my school its standard to take 4 or 5 throughout hs

[ebon coyote]

regenerating it is funny lol

[weak citrus]

I couldn’t take them until junior year 💀

[odd condor]

well I did 14 and have a 3.97 and I didn't get in 😭

[hasty snow]

deadass aside from sport scholarships i think i might be one of the accepted students with the lowest gpa, i’m gonna be that one guy in the common data set

[odd condor]

our school offers a lot of APs

[autumn timber]

Hn mines lower

[ebon coyote]

i took 7 APs and like 20 DE's

[versed dove]

same, and they only offered apush and comp sci

[ebon coyote]

oop 💀

[hasty snow]

true

[ebon coyote]

his essay must've cooked

[weak citrus]

Rural public school?

[grizzled pendant]

someone on reddit said they were accepted with 3.2... gonna be hard to beat that

[hasty snow]

same…

[ebon coyote]

Rural public school peeps!

[versed dove]

urban public school 5 mins from neu campus!

[hasty snow]

or around that

[weak citrus]

Damn lol

[hasty snow]

whatever an 82/100 translate to

[ebon coyote]

bruh 💀

[weak citrus]

U in back bay?

Roxbury?

[ebon coyote]

even my school offers more than that and it's rural public

[versed dove]

our adv and honors classes are known to be extremely hard tho

[odd condor]

maybe we were all just yield protected and he was the only one not

(coping lol)

[versed dove]

neither

[weak citrus]

Fenway area lol? Longwood

[versed dove]

very close yes

[hasty snow]

i’m in brazil and the only AP class my “international school” in a city with a metro over a million people had to offer was AP lang

so i did that and that’s it

[ebon coyote]

I wasn't yield protected with 7 AP's and 20 DE's and a 4.0 🤩

my one bragging moment

and still mad that my scholarship wasn't higher

[odd condor]

dang 20 DEs is crazy

[hasty snow]

bro needed at least 60k to actually go to neu

[ebon coyote]

nah I need at least 40k

30k I'll consider it

[odd condor]

what other schools have you gotten into?

those stats are pretty dang good

[ebon coyote]

82% is roughly a B-

which is... a 2.7 based on my schools letter system 💀

[grizzled pendant]

at 30k in aid, you'll "only" be paying 70k a year. 🫠

[ebon coyote]

just UMASS amherst and boston. And bridgewater but they don't count. NEU was the only reach I applied to besides UPENN

[hasty snow]

chat i got into neu with a 2.7, this is how i did it, welcome to my ted talk

[ebon coyote]

I probs could've maybe gotten into BU but I didn't like the campus and their business school isn't any better than NEU's so there was no point

[odd condor]

oh why not more reaches?

[versed dove]

what campus?

[grizzled pendant]

if you got in with an 82, you must be international without grade inflation. at my hs, the avg GPA is like a 3.4

grade inflation is a massive thing

[hasty snow]

high school in brasil, american citizen so i applied domestic

[ebon coyote]

I wanted to stay within mass and there's not a lot of good business schools here. NEU is actually probs the best. Harvard's is only for grad students and idk if MIT offers undergrad business but I do know they're probs not gonna be any better than NEU education wise for business

[hasty snow]

boston

[versed dove]

my school doesnt give A+ idk if this is to combat grade inflation or no

[ebon coyote]

most schools don't

[versed dove]

oh ok

[random ermine]

mit is one of the top ranked undegrad biz programs in the world

[ebon coyote]

it just ruins the scale imo

[grizzled pendant]

nah, but around the area where i live, getting a 3.6-3.8 UW is super common

[odd condor]

oh makes sense

[versed dove]

intl school or just regular priv/public school?

[random ermine]

i also feel like u dont need to go to a school and study business specifically to go into business if that makes sense

but i get ur point

[ebon coyote]

i refuse to believe that, I feel like it's gonna be a lot more tech based too

[hasty snow]

it’s marketed as an “international school” but offers no AP classes and no IB classes and our classes are in portugues not english

[ebon coyote]

wut kinda intl school is this 💀

[random ermine]

usnews isn't a great metric for specifics but it will tell you relative prestige https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall?myCollege=business&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

bruh

it isnt copying

[odd condor]

did you not consider boston college at all

[random ermine]

one sec

[ebon coyote]

no, I didn't want to go to any religious schools at all. Even if it's not really religious and pretty mild

[grizzled mountain]

it’s so expensive

[odd condor]

hm that's interesting

[grizzled mountain]

they’re horrible with aid

[ebon coyote]

for personal reasons, I just really dislike the idea of going to a religious school

[hasty snow]

i want to say the average gpa at my school was around a 72%, and i was top 5 of my class of 68 with an 82% so maybe my school just had crazy grade deflation

[grizzled pendant]

neu is legit a really good school if you wanna do finance. esp ib or pe.

[hasty snow]

2 mfs went to harvard in the last 3 years from my school too

[random ermine]

also by poets and quants: https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/rankings/ranking-u-s-news-best-undergraduate-business-programs-of-2025/3/

mit is a pretty prestigious ug biz

[hasty snow]

gen z intl school type shit

[random ermine]

not that im trying to prove a point or anything

just saying theres more than neu

its still a great school

[versed dove]

rj and sp has a lot of them right

[odd condor]

can't be more expensive than neu right?

[ebon coyote]

not just in mass though. Even if MIT is like the only other t20 with a business school, it's also wayyyyyyyyyyyyy out of my league

like ridiculously out of my league

my app is competitive for most t50s but it's not on a t20 level

[hasty snow]

they do but they’re actual international schools with AP or IB classes and a lot of classes in english

[pure brook]

Hey u never know tho

[hasty snow]

i live in a smaller city

[pure brook]

Reach for the stars 🤩🤩🤩

[random ermine]

type shit

[ebon coyote]

I applied to UPENN as my "you never know" school lol

[hasty snow]

second largest in my state, metro right above 1 million people

[odd condor]

I applied to 15 reach schools lool

it only takes one!

[random ermine]

lol

i applied to 26

[ebon coyote]

my analogy is, if people say to reach for the sky then NEU is my sky and UPENN is the galaxy above that I never realized existed

[grizzled pendant]

this is the way. 15 reach, 3 target, 2 safety. yolo!

[odd condor]

I've been deferred from 2 of them so far

[ebon coyote]

NEU was me reaching for the skies lol

[odd condor]

i have 15 reach 11 target 1 safety

[ebon coyote]

i'm too lazy for that 💀

i was gonna apply to umich but decided I didn't want to deal with the supps

[pure brook]

I feel like with ur stats u couldve reached for the galaxy and beyond lwky 😭😭

[random ermine]

yes

[ebon coyote]

and I tried to write cornells supp but literally had no creative flow going

[random ermine]

stats are the only bottleneck

[hasty snow]

my school is an “intl school” but has the highest grades in the national entrance exams for the country bro. we js say it’s an “intl school” for the publicity

[grizzled pendant]

my counsellor would've been PISSED if i did 27.. lol

[ebon coyote]

i diiiiidddddd. I applied to UPENN and got rejected lol. And my academics are like the only good part of my app

[odd condor]

yeah I lowk didn't need to do so many targets

but oh well

[ebon coyote]

the rest of my app is me complaining abt how I had no transportation so I couldn't do any extracurriculars. Which is fine but it's not gonna help me either

[versed dove]

can u apply to american schools w the enem? sorry im just curious cuz i used to study there

[random ermine]

should've done more rd lol

[grizzled pendant]

how many reaches you heard from so far?

[ebon coyote]

I had a little bit of regret around this but still not much. Because if I did then I would've prolonged my committment to UMASS or NEU for another 2 months

[random ermine]

unless you got good aid

‼️

which is poss

[odd condor]

2, Cornell and Mich, deferred both 🙁

[grizzled pendant]

for me, Michigan and UVA, also deferred from both

[ebon coyote]

i was not getting good aid from any ivies 💀

[random ermine]

u never know

[ebon coyote]

i'ma fill out the cornell cost calculator

[odd condor]

UVA has released?

[hasty snow]

from what i know only emory and NYU accepts enem

[odd condor]

I applied there too

[ebon coyote]

just to show you that I wasn't gonna get shit anyhow

[grizzled pendant]

I did ED1

[odd condor]

ohh

[hasty snow]

also no need to be sorru tf

[grizzled pendant]

EA is Friday

[odd condor]

yeah

[hasty snow]

bros family needs to make less money

[odd condor]

I have 3 reaches coming out friday

I'm very scared

UIUC GT and UVA

[ebon coyote]

my family is middle class but they saved up and bought a retirement piece of land which is now screwing me over

[grizzled pendant]

it's playing the lottery. just need to hit on ONE of my reaches.

[simple halo]

WE ARE GETTING INTO GT

[hasty snow]

wait lowkey, what if people emancipated themselves before applying, could they cheese their way to need based aid

[odd condor]

same lmao

I just need one 🙏

[ebon coyote]

and it literally that singular piece of land that's screwing my financial aid. My parents income and savings alone would give me more aid

[odd condor]

out of 15

[grizzled pendant]

already know I have good app/essays since I've gotten in at a bunch of places that were somewhat competitive

[ebon coyote]

i tried. They make it veryyyyy difficult

[odd condor]

I have purdue as a decent backup though

[simple halo]

yeah purdue is such a nice school

[hasty snow]

time to put the land in a trust

[simple halo]

and it's so nice it came so early

[grizzled pendant]

my next big swing (and maybe my best chance) is Emory ED2 next week

[stone creek]

good luck 🫡

[hasty snow]

i almost cheesed my way into in state odds at GT

cuz the last place i lived in the US was atlanta

but i’ve been out of the US for a couple of year by now

[ebon coyote]

DAMN even NEU estimated to give me more than this

[visual coral]

https://tenor.com/view/zadtwt-pinkpantheress-gagged-shocked-turning-head-gif-13930026580453081419

wtf

[random ermine]

bruh

[ebon coyote]

this is why I didn't bother applying to other ivies 😭

[random ermine]

other ivies have better aid though

than neu

[ebon coyote]

zero point

[visual coral]

are u a multimillionare

[random ermine]

neu will have the worst aid lol

[ebon coyote]

no bruh 😭

my parents make 140k collectively

probably less this year since my dad is now retired

so like 120k

[visual coral]

and they expective you to pay 93k a year??????

this mental

[ebon coyote]

yeah, it's cuz of that one piece of property my parents bought

[grizzled pendant]

neu is pretty widely known for pay to play

good school, excellent coop program, but it's gonna cost you

[ebon coyote]

which is like $300k in value. They're expecting my parents to sell off that land just to pay for my college

that's gonna be their retirement home bruh 😭

[hasty snow]

lowkey bro, that mentality of parents letting kids go into debt for uni is insane to me

probably bc of my culture

but like, if you are making money and decide to barely or not help

that’s js weird for me

[random ermine]

ok caht

im leaving the thread

lwk done w northeastern

bye 😛

[ebon coyote]

did you get in or no?

did you apply?

[visual coral]

what do u think 😭

[random ermine]

got into oakland

[visual coral]

oh

[random ermine]

lwk mini crashout ensued

[visual coral]

help

[random ermine]

i made a minute long analysis video

[visual coral]

sorry neu simp i was wrong

[ebon coyote]

could be worse

[random ermine]

of how this means im cooked for all my future colleges

💀

[visual coral]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-bro-what-are-you-talking-about-bruh-wolf-of-wall-street-nose-pinch-gif-2883543456073544458

[ebon coyote]

NEU is just scummy lol

[visual coral]

you cooked if you have that mindset

[random ermine]

lowk i think my logic makes sense

[ebon coyote]

they are not representative of other colleges

[ebon coyote]

depends imo

if they choose to go to an uber expensive school then that's honestly their problem

[random ermine]

idk

basically my logic was

[ebon coyote]

I'll pay for part of it and if they decide to go in debt for the rest then that's their choice. But yknow, I'd rather not give away my entire retirement just for my kid to go to an unnecessarily expensive school

[random ermine]

neu mainly defers for yield's sake, maybe alt campus. but when i went to boston i visited js for demonstrated interest's sake, i.e. proving yield yet still getting assigned an alternate campus which menans the review of my stats (which are kinda cooked) and ecs + recs and caps weren't good enough

and i know my supplementals weren't outstanding enough to compensate

thus im fried

😛

i think it makes sense

[odd condor]

i dont think visiting once makes them sure you're going to attend

[austere tiger]

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[random ermine]

i dont think its about sure to attend i think they just take all the signs they can about demonstrated interest bc they look at it precisely for yield

i was talking to an ao there

and she said visits are basically the only thing they look at for DI

[odd condor]

i mean yeah neu just does everything differently

[random ermine]

ofc this is just speculation on my end yeah

[odd condor]

have you gotten other colleges

[random ermine]

nah only safeties ea

[ebon coyote]

YOU HAVEN'T RUBBED THE HUSKY

CLEARLY

[austere tiger]

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[ebon coyote]

I'm ngl that's another reason I'm surprised I got in

[austere tiger]

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[ebon coyote]

everyone was touching the stupid statue and it was disgusting af plus I wasn't a savage that was trying to shove through an entire crowd 💀

so I just like- tapped it's nose a little

[white egret]

i dont know how to feel I got NEU but rejected from Rice [ED2]

[random ermine]

did u get boston

[white egret]

should I be happy or sad

[white egret]

yes

[random ermine]

its a good school! congrats & ed2 can be very volatile at a lot of schools

[odd condor]

i just remembered back when my sister was applying to colleges she got a full ride to neu lol

but she decided to go to yale for full tuition instead

[ebon coyote]

bro what 😭

[random ermine]

im sure you'll be fine for rd

[ebon coyote]

nvm I take it back

[white egret]

i did all EA

[random ermine]

bro what

not a single rd 😭

[white egret]

i have 3 decision on 31st

[random ermine]

mich is due in 3 days if you want to..

[odd condor]

she was a recruited athlete that's probably important to mention

[ebon coyote]

I did all EA too lmao

[ebon coyote]

bro 😭

[white egret]

my school has a 14 limit

[ebon coyote]

also I thought yale didn't give scholarships?

[random ermine]

ohh

[ebon coyote]

it was like a pact between ivies

[odd condor]

it doesn't

[random ermine]

still neu is a great school

u got it

[odd condor]

my family's paying the full tuition

[grizzled mountain]

iirc no ivies give scholarships

[random ermine]

erm anyway it might be time to leave the thread

[grizzled mountain]

only need based

[random ermine]

and doom about college

bye northeastern

[white egret]

would you say VTech or Northeastern for MechE

[ebon coyote]

oh I thought you said full ride 😭

she should've just gone for NEU at that point

[odd condor]

nah lol

yeah thats what I always told her

NEU for free > yale for 100k a year

[ebon coyote]

is she doing 4 years too?

[odd condor]

pre med yeah

[ebon coyote]

damn your parents must be rich or in hella debt 💀

[ebon coyote]

AND SHE'S GONNA DO ANOTHER 300K FOR MED SCHOOL

YOUR SISTER IS FREAKING DUMB

[odd condor]

we're like upper middle class

[ebon coyote]

no offense 😭

[odd condor]

yes exactly

like her med school matters 10x more

than her undergard

just go to neu

[ebon coyote]

paying premium for your premed degree is the stupidest decision ever 😭

she's gonna be paying off that debt into her 80s man

[odd condor]

but the prestigeee

😭

[ebon coyote]

I should know as someone who just got seen by a 70 year old gastroenterologist

[odd condor]

our family makes like ~350k a year

so i guess its not too bad

[ebon coyote]

... ok this isn't upper middle class 💀

that's high income my guy

[odd condor]

is it not?

[ebon coyote]

unless you have like 10 siblings

upper middle class is like 120-170k

anything over 200k is pretty much high income

again, unless you have a lot of dependents

[odd condor]

oh I only have 1 sibling

[ebon coyote]

bro you rich 😭

[odd condor]

I guess lol

my dad works in tech

[ebon coyote]

what sport does your sister do? just out of curiosity

[odd condor]

but like we live in washington and compared to most other families here we don't make that much more

[odd condor]

swimming

[ebon coyote]

recruited athletes are always really cool to me. Cuz like wdym you're really smart and hella athletic

[ebon coyote]

... I live in washington 💀

you in bellevue?

[odd condor]

wait..

i thought you were from massachussetts

[ebon coyote]

no

I wanted to move 3000 miles away

cuz I hate my school

[odd condor]

you just really like the schools there?

[ebon coyote]

yes

I want to live in boston

[odd condor]

i don't wanna dox myself but its in one of those cities around there

[hasty snow]

boston simp over here

[ebon coyote]

the tri cities are huge- you're not doxxing yourself lol

rich person in bellevue is about as vague as saying "i live in japan" 💀

[odd condor]

idk i'm just not really comfortable sharing 💀

[ebon coyote]

no wonder you think 350k is just upper middle 😭

[odd condor]

yeah everyone here is rich af

[ebon coyote]

my guy you are one of those rich ppl lol

[odd condor]

I was on the swimming grind too until junior year

[tight cairn]

Best of luck with the rest of the colleges! You’ve got this! 🙂‍↕️

[odd condor]

but I just didn't have the same resilience as my sister

[odd condor]

ok like I know poeple making 2 mil a year

at my school 😭

[ebon coyote]

I started sports pretty late so it was never in the stars for me

[odd condor]

its a public school too

[ebon coyote]

mans if I started tennis when I was in elementary school then I probs could've gone D1

I've already progressed pretty fast for someone who only started in 9th. I'm sad to think of the potential I probs had as a kid

[odd condor]

I started swimming in 2nd grade but I'm honestly just not built for athletics

once I got to high school we were doing like practices twice a day and before school

it was too much

[ebon coyote]

I have untapped potential lol

like my build is athletic

I'm just too lazy to actually do a lot of exercise and stuff

not a gym bro type person

[odd condor]

the amount of work required to go D1 is insane

a lot of people underestimate this

[ebon coyote]

yeah that's why I never tried in middle school

[odd condor]

btw do you also live in western washington?

[ebon coyote]

bc in middle school if I started training more, I probs could've made D1 track but I just hate running in general and I saw the effort the other kids were putting in and was like hell nah

like wdym you're paying to be tortured and go on running camps

[ebon coyote]

yeah pretty much

[odd condor]

oh so you're not applying to uw?

[ebon coyote]

nope

[odd condor]

yeah the training is pretty much torture

[ebon coyote]

I don't wanna see anyone from my school

[wind hornet]

NEU or VTech or Umaryland

[odd condor]

that's crazy you must really hate your school

[wind hornet]

For comp engineering

[sand flint]

acceptance

[odd condor]

my sister would wake up at 4 am to go to a 2 hr swim practice, then after school go straight to a 1.5 hr hs practice, and then at like 6 pm practice for another 3 hrs at her club

[hasty snow]

neu > career expectation
vtech > prestige>=, academics

no clue abt umaryland

[ebon coyote]

nope, some are chill but most are assholes. Half my school is some type of overly religious, a quarter are red necks, 10% are absolute weirdos who have relations with 12 year olds, and the rest are a mix of popular white ppl and normal, average ppl

[odd condor]

i'm just not built for work like that

[sand flint]

is northeastern worth considering or

[grizzled mountain]

“350k/yr” “upper middle”

[hasty snow]

depends on how much ur paying for it

[odd condor]

chill I honestly just had no idea 😭

[sand flint]

90k annual

[wind hornet]

Oh thanks

[odd condor]

that's pretty weird for western washington

[hasty snow]

debt or parents paying

[ebon coyote]

ik the area he's in. 350k comparatively is upper middle and the living costs are so high that they practically are living the experience

[grizzled mountain]

i mean it depends on where you’re from tbh

[odd condor]

everyone here is normally very liberal

[sand flint]

mix, 60/40

shii dude you're doing cs too?

[twin oriole]

double income or apple ceo parent

[hasty snow]

yessir

got in ed

[odd condor]

dad works at big tech company

mom is a homemaker

[grizzled mountain]

yeah ikwym

[sand flint]

also paper rex, love to see it

[hasty snow]

YESSIR

[sand flint]

vct?

[twin oriole]

damn 350k on one parent is crazy ur dad made it big time

[ebon coyote]

only the tri cities are really liberal. The rest of the state is all conservative minus a tiny county in the southwest

[hasty snow]

yup

[sand flint]

HELL yeah dude

i was like neu looks cool but i was hoping for umich cornell or gatech

[twin oriole]

its funny how this applies to almost every state

[sand flint]

and then i got deferred from all 3 lmaoo

[hasty snow]

probably going to try to get on the neu varsity val team to get varsity perks

[grizzled mountain]

literally

[hasty snow]

💀💀

[grizzled mountain]

valiant?

valorant?

[sand flint]

im nowhere near good enough but i'd consider it

[ebon coyote]

I probs should've applied to umich, had good odds of getting in, but I can't do the cold

not that level of cold

even mass isn't that bad

[sand flint]

i would have done ed but i did ed for cornell

[grizzled mountain]

apps are still open

[ebon coyote]

are they?

[grizzled mountain]

closes feb 1

[hasty snow]

i just qualled for the closed qualifiers to challengers here in brazil

[grizzled mountain]

i was thinking of applying but eh

i don’t think i’d go

[ebon coyote]

hmm i got 3 days to work on my supp and apply

[sand flint]

okay yeah no i'm na gold peak LMAO

[grizzled mountain]

both my parents went to michigan though

[sand flint]

congrats on challengers but ur a separate tier

[ebon coyote]

that's what I'm saying. I can't see myself going to michigan

[hasty snow]

i believe in ur untapped pontential

[sand flint]

i'd kill to just even guarantee umich cornell or ga tech

[hasty snow]

i started at silver

[sand flint]

nah there aint no untapped potential

[ebon coyote]

nah, idc about any university that much

[sand flint]

well, i mean, i prolly wouldnt kill for ga tech or umich

i would kill for cornell deffo

[hasty snow]

[sand flint]

the other two i want but like

not to a killing level

[warm fractal]

how should i format this

[odd condor]

i've been deferred from two of those already

and ga tech is coming on friday and I'm not too hopeful

[wind hornet]

Defer from Cornell is insane

Honestly NEU London 1yr then Boston isn’t sounding that bad. I can tour whole of Europe while I’m in London during my 18s then go to Boston and my degree will be from Boston itself.

It’s the COA that’s insane 😭

[odd condor]

yeah idt it's worth it honestly

you got other colleges you're waiting on?

[wind hornet]

UIUC VTech Uwash UW madison

Deffered : Purdue engineering and UMich

[odd condor]

all 4 of those are very solid

you don't really need to be stressing about neu tuition rn just wait and see where you get in

[wind hornet]

yeah

[odd condor]

also ur cs right?

[wind hornet]

Comp eng

[odd condor]

i can kinda just tell from the college choices lol

oh

[wind hornet]

lmao

[odd condor]

makes sense why you were deferred from purdue then

[wind hornet]

yeah

[wind hornet]

i really wanted it

[wind hornet]

these r all RD

[odd condor]

yeah their program is like t5 in the country no?

[wind hornet]

yeah purdue is insane for engineering and cs and data science

[odd condor]

r u in state for uw?

[wind hornet]

international

[odd condor]

ohh yeah

[wind hornet]

yeah lol

[odd condor]

im instate for uw and its my dream school

[wind hornet]

oh u have a pretty solid chance

u did rd or ea?

ea's coming in 2 days

[odd condor]

oh I meant uwash not uw madison

[wind hornet]

oh u wash

thats also insane

the location is so good

seattle

[odd condor]

yeah

i live pretty close

[wind hornet]

that'll come in march right

mid march

[odd condor]

yeah

I'm applying cs

it's kinda like a legendary school around here

[wind hornet]

good luck

[odd condor]

everyone wants to get in

thanks!

[glass wharf]

U in lwsd?

I swear my high schools lowk a feeder for uw in state

[odd condor]

uhh i don't wanna leak too much lol

but im in one of those districts aorund there

[glass wharf]

rip

nice

[random ermine]

loll thank you & congrats on neu + honors

i alr predicted you'd sweep

[wind hornet]

NEU boston has 40k students and NEU london has 2.3k 💀

[ebon coyote]

pls don't tell me you're abbreviating UW seattle as uwash...

committing a crime here 🥀

like ripping the wings off an angel

you could abbreviate it as udub at least 😭

you need not commit a crime against humanity

[grizzled pendant]

LS would be a great experience if money wasn't relevant. Can travel all over europe while there. Go clubbing in London. Would be amazing. If not for the $100k+ per year.

[wind hornet]

😂 😂 😭

[wind hornet]

yeah exactllyyy

im researching and lodon scholars doesnt sound bad at all

except the coa

but lets see ive like 10 more unis pending

[ebon coyote]

seattle gets priority for UW over wisconsin cuz UW seattle is a t20 man 😭

[grizzled pendant]

same. neu was 12th on my list. so lots of other options would have to reject me before i start making plans for london

[wind hornet]

my whole school calls it Uwash here lmao

[wind hornet]

yep

[ebon coyote]

HEATHENS

SAVAGES

[odd condor]

lmao

i've never heard anyone in person not call it udub

[ebon coyote]

THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF PRONOUNCING TORTILLA AS TOR-TIL-LA

[grizzled pendant]

udub is a loooong wait, right? I have it on my list as mid-march release date

[odd condor]

yup

their rd is due nov 15 yet they release decisions so late

[ebon coyote]

uw is weird af

part of why i didn't apply

[wind hornet]

wait why is it even called udub

how does it make sense

[ebon coyote]

double u = w = dub

[grizzled pendant]

dub is a often used for W

like got the dub

[wind hornet]

💀

[ebon coyote]

and washu refers to washington university

[wind hornet]

nah Uwash is way better

[wind hornet]

ik that

[ebon coyote]

washignton university

mbad

[grizzled pendant]

only if you plan on going to the place in st louis

[ebon coyote]

no- it sounds lame asf

[ebon coyote]

you are one of those ppl that thinks "tor-til-la" sounds better than tortilla

[dusk birch]

Did anyone get decision?

[ebon coyote]

EA? Yeah it came out like 5 hours ago

[dense egret]

Do you guys know what the range of scholarships are for honours college kids?

i've seen 14k and 21 k

[ebon coyote]

I saw 27k

[muted raven]

I cant believe I got in

[ebon coyote]

Guys i think my academics carried hella

I'm looking at what ppl were saying on zeemee and a lot of them got nu in or no merit aid

And i think their apps are better than mine im ngl

Imposter syndrome goes brrrrr

[burnt quest]

what were ur stats

if u dont mind me asking

[ebon coyote]

1480, 4.0 uw, 4.3 w, 4 years tennis, 3 years fbla (historian), like 300 hours of volunteer tutoring, and some volunteering

[burnt quest]

ty

[craggy spade]

How’d u list ur extracurriculars

[ebon coyote]

Badly 💀

[craggy spade]

How do you know 😭😭

[ebon coyote]

bc I had no clue what I was doing, what to write about, and I lowkey should've googled a tutorial or smth but I just never did 😭

actually I should've had chatgpt help me write it bc anything is better than what I had put down

[craggy spade]

Ok now I’m curious how it looked omg it can’t be that bad 😭

[ebon coyote]

it's not great- and if you notice, the hours were horrible lol. I was not that busy

[craggy spade]

Are those all your EC’s??

[ebon coyote]

pretty much

[craggy spade]

They aren’t that bad! Congrats on neu 🥰

[ebon coyote]

there's another one under it but it's the least important

zero impact lmao, I put it there just to have smth there

[ebon coyote]

it's pretty bad compared to otheres

I also didn't write abt my impact at all

I should've written smth like "helped 20 students in tutoring and contributed to increase grade levels"

[craggy spade]

At the end of the day, you got in so you should be proud of yourself🔥🔥

Like woah they wanted you so bad

My essay was so bad at the time I submitted

[ebon coyote]

Mine was risky af. I wrote abt cannibals 💀

I heard you can see the AO and committee notes of your app if you get accepted cuz of ferpa so i am very curious to see what they've got written down

[carmine sequoia]

you can get everything but ur rec letter back yes

i havent tried it tho

[muted raven]

wait what? how?

[carmine sequoia]

ferpa is basically the act that says “u have the right to request the data that educational institutions have on u”

99.9% of ppl waived this right to submit ur rec letter to indicate to aos that u were not planning to invoke your legal right to see the letter, therefore meaning whatever ur teacher says is probably the unobstructed truth

[ebon coyote]

Only for the university you commit to i think

Unfortunately

Very very curious about NEU the most

[grim wren]

if i get into london scholars honors, is that a sign of yeild protection or that i js didnt get into regular?

[lucid epoch]

is the nu in program js 1 semester abroad

[hot sage]

yes, my friend did it and went to madrid

[autumn timber]

wait does it even matter much that ur goin to one of the satellite campuses for a year academic wise

Cause freshie year is mostly gen eds (?)

like yeah making friends and all that is a different story but academically u won’t be “behind” the Boston people

[sonic carbon]

Do you get to pick or nah

Also can you just stay at one of the satellites

not really tryna go to Boston ngl

[thin beacon]

Her undergrad just outright does not matter at all

She’s gonna regret this

[carmine sequoia]

yes

for all but nuin

[sonic carbon]

Wdym

[carmine sequoia]

did u get nuin? if so you pick the country depending on ur major + have to go to boston in the spring

[sonic carbon]

Like if I go to say Oakland could I just stay there for 4 years or do I have to transfer back to Boston at some point

[sonic carbon]

Yes I’m nuin

fuh bro I do not want to go Boston

[carmine sequoia]

u can stay in oak/lon for the full 4

[carmine sequoia]

oh the decision is final so u cant really change that

[sonic carbon]

wdym

[carmine sequoia]

u cant switch to oakland scholars if u got admitted to nuin

[sonic carbon]

Dammit

can I not like ask if I can just go somewhere else

[carmine sequoia]

no they explicitly say its a final decision

[sonic carbon]

I’d assume they want less people at Boston not more

[sonic carbon]

Hmm

If I spend a year at Boston could I maybe transfer out later?

As a “study abroad” type of thing

[carmine sequoia]

i mean technically yeah

[sonic carbon]

Oh dope

[carmine sequoia]

but it seems like ur overcomplicating this icl

why even apply to a school headquartered in boston if u dont wanna go to school in boston

[sonic carbon]

I’m ngl northeastern was a mega ultra reach for me but it’s the best I’ve gotten into

the original plan was to just be at a different campus the whole time

I mean I could deal with Boston for a little but im a Philly sports fan which does not fly at all in Boston

[carmine sequoia]

💀💀💀

idt many people care here

esp among other college students

sure like the average white person from southie would side eye u for not glazing our teams but

[sonic carbon]

How bad do you think it would be if I was wearing, say, some sixers merch or something to an event

should I just ditch the Sixers gear if I go?

I don’t want to abandon the goats maxey and edgecombe

[carmine sequoia]

i think its incredibly unserious lmfao

[sonic carbon]

Ok that’s good

I guess Boston is alright then

[carmine sequoia]

dont sweat it too much

ur not w the yankees ur ok

[sonic carbon]

I don’t follow baseball but I am a Knicks fan by birth

I don’t have any Knicks merch though so hopefully it’s alright

[carmine sequoia]

yeah ppl aren’t gonna like drunkenly beat u up in an alley for liking a different team

ppl r still patriotic ab their home teams after moving in to campus

[sonic carbon]

Okay that’s good to hear

[lucid epoch]

oh awesome

[hot sage]

yes you can pick but iirc its first come first serve

[visual coral]

where do i upload my scores??

i just changed my testing preference to use my scores but i cant find the upload scores option anywhere

oh my god do i have to do official scores

[carmine sequoia]

u self report

[ebon coyote]

You act like they don't get students from the other 49 states lol

[visual coral]

yes but I can’t find anywhere to upload it 💔💔

[carmine sequoia]

r u sure its not past the deadline to upload them

[visual coral]

they just asked me if i wanted to change

it only showed up after i said i wanted to convert to regular decision/accepted deferral

[glass wharf]

erm

so how hard is a major change

😁

[carmine sequoia]

its a form on the portal

u can change ur major in like ten seconds

[glass wharf]

ok aweosme

[ebon coyote]

If you've had a co-op, could you tell me how much NEUs connections really helped you with getting it? Like do you think you could've gotten that job even if you were at another university? And did it help your career that much or not really?

Also, did the co-op actually pay well or was it basically just minimum wage

[simple halo]

Remember when ts was 95%

[topaz sage]

do ed2 applicants need to send in the mid year?

[glass wharf]

I think it is

my majors just actually fried

[autumn summit]

it's actually not tbh

[grizzled mountain]

80% isn’t even good 😭

why they flexing that

[twin oriole]

One time I read a schools stats that said 95% of grads were either employed or seeking employment and I have to do a double take

[somber schooner]

whats the deal with the nyc scholars program

is it like a we dont have a spot for u but ur kinda ok so ig we can bring you on?

or is it like a proper and good program

ive only heard bad things about marymount so far but idk if i've had good sources

[glass wharf]

I think it is my majors just genuinely cooked

[umbral folio]

chat, i got london scholars

is it good?

(not ragebait or humblebrag, i js don't know-)

[grizzled mountain]

it’s solid pun intended

it’s very expensive

it’s truly what you make of it

[umbral folio]

lmaoo

[umbral folio]

yes.

i'm going cs and i haven't found much info abt neu london cs

or js neu cs in general

so js curious fr

[shy star]

from personal experience, the cs profs at london are quite dogwater

[shy star]

it's a new program so not very developed i think you're gonna be the second year if you choose to accept but it's still an acceptance to northeastern and it's ok imo

[shy star]

based on what friends who are on co-op have said it's lowk a tossup but NEU connections def help yk

they're are getting paid well past min wage

in the 20s-30s hourly

[umbral folio]

damn.

[shy star]

yeah

the humanities profs are quite goated tho

[umbral folio]

welp

there goes neu ig

is neu even selective?

[lofty osprey]

Kinda

Is nu in cs good?

[umbral folio]

neu cs? ehh idk

it should be top 27

[digital hollow]

yay

[digital solar]

It’s 11th on CS rankings but who knows atp

[autumn summit]

csrankings is research output

[digital solar]

i know but its a decent benchmark of school quality too

[shy star]

boston and oakland cs dept is good

it's just london that's a little.

lacking.

😭

[ashen knoll]

rank virginia tech neu casewestern

[autumn summit]

for what?

[ebon coyote]

will NEU automatically consider you for a national recognition scholarship and tell you in your decision letter if you got it or do you have to ask/be admitted and find out?

wait nvm, I found out you have to email them documentation by april 9

wait but now i don't know what qualifies as documentation 😭

[glass wharf]

It’s not in decision letter

It’s in scholarship page once u get decision tho

[ebon coyote]

nah I figured it out, you have to email them documentation to confirm and then they'll update your scholarship

[glass wharf]

they do?

huh

I don’t think I submitted any documentation

[ebon coyote]

yeah you have to submit it after you've gotten your decision lol

or you could upload it to the status check but idk where to do that

mb you can do it before the decisions come out, but either ways you have to voluntarily give it to them bc they won't ask for it

[ebon coyote]

https://service.northeastern.edu/sfs?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB000023013&_gl=1*39poaq*_gcl_au*MTc1ODk4NzUzOC4xNzY4OTQ1NDc2LjE1OTc0MTg2NS4xNzY5NzI3NTU0LjE3Njk3Mjc1NTc.&sys_kb_id=5a59248187e0b2503b170e96cebb3518&spa=1

[glass wharf]

No I got it i never submitted anything

LOL

[ebon coyote]

for the national recognition from college board?

[glass wharf]

Yah

[ebon coyote]

hmmm strange

[glass wharf]

In my portal the day I got my decision

[ebon coyote]

i think it's bc my decision had my honors scholarship instead

and probs bc they don't want my aid to stack or smth

not that I'm getting any aid

so they don't wanna give me any scholarships 😭

altho 5k still isn't a lot

[glass wharf]

ah icic I’m too much of a bum to apply honors to all my schools

[ebon coyote]

i was hoping the national rec scholarship could make up for my mid honors scholarship and lack of aid but i doubt that at this point

[ebon coyote]

I didn't, they automatically consider you

[glass wharf]

I’ll just apply honors to wherever I end up in the first year

ah icic

[ebon coyote]

damn still won't be able to attend NEU even with a national rec scholarship

it's still gonna be at least 70k coa

[tight compass]

they match with NMS

[ebon coyote]

wait, so if you don't have national merit then you're just screwed?

[tight compass]

no, is extra

[carmine sequoia]

correct merit doesnt stack

[ebon coyote]

i'm so confused 💀

[tight compass]

are you nms?

[ebon coyote]

no

[tight compass]

i was just letting you know that that’s another option

[ebon coyote]

was literally 10 away which pmo

[tight compass]

you can also appeal your finaid

[ebon coyote]

nah, apparently NEU doesn't negotiate whatsoever

[tight compass]

yeah tht makes sense

[ebon coyote]

I can maybeeeeeee trying to negotiate my honors scholarship bc apparently that is a slight possibility but really not counting on it

[carmine sequoia]

a certificate

i emailed them mine and it took them lit months to do it

[ebon coyote]

yeah I figured that out, the certificate just looks so incredibly unofficial that I can't believe they'd consider it as documentation 💀

[carmine sequoia]

and then after all that trouble they docked my aid and replaced it with the scholarship

[ebon coyote]

i could make a better looking certificate

[ebon coyote]

welp I'm not getting any aid anyhow 😭

bro what

basically they won't let me get more than 14k even though I reasonably could and probably should

[carmine sequoia]

told ya they dont stack

[ebon coyote]

I'm so done with NEU

how are you literally that scummy

[vital rapids]

they gave me 5k merit thinking it'll make a dent in the 102k coa

😭 🙏

[ebon coyote]

they're real arrogant for a school that was a commuter school only 20 years ago

nah I'm just not committing

I love the school but screw that. Talk about shitty ethics

[vital rapids]

I’m not gonna go most likely

I applied cuz it was free and no essay

[ebon coyote]

It's literally my dream school

but no- they have to be assholes

[glass wharf]

20% unemployment rate for me major

[topaz sage]

when has ed2 released across the years

[simple halo]

💀

[trail plank]

Go to VT

Well what major also if ur doing a niche major I’d say VT

[tight cairn]

Did any of you receive the Stamps Scholars invitation?

I'm not sure what it is, and I'd love to hear about it, since I got an email about it!

[vagrant elbow]

ye

[dense egret]

does anyone have the admit discord

[fervent geyser]

i dont think u have to submit anything lol

i also got into the honors college

[icy harness]

hi guys, im apart of the honors program here @ neu

if you have any questions

:-)

feel free to DM / @ me here

[small surge]

what is neu london gonna be like? and is it worth

[ebon coyote]

I hear it sucks if you aren't a humanities major and that it's very expensive

[small surge]

I mean conditions wise

Idrc too much about london’s quality as im gonna go to Boston in a year anyways

[dense egret]

hey! @icy harness what are the benefits of the honors program? afaik its just better housing, smaller classes, +some funds (which I'm not sure what for)?

[shy star]

campus is really nice and modern

dorms are also super nice asw

2 of the dorms are studio style

and the other 2 are suite style but you get your own room

wow they finally changed one of the housing options

[small surge]

what are chances of getting single dorm?

[shy star]

3 of the 4 available choices have singles

but 1 of the 3 also has the suite styles

https://www.nulondon.ac.uk/student-life/housing/

i think on the housing pref sheet it asks if you want a studio or not

[small surge]

ty

[icy harness]

Hi, some of the benefits I've found are *housing * (you're placed in East Village (EV) with your own bathroom, 3+ laundry rooms, and access to a free membership to the Y that's a 2 min walk from EV; there is honors upperclassmen housing @ WVC as well), smaller classes (I've found that the professors tend to be better as well in comparison to my peers who've taken the same w/ a different professor (in terms of the mean average for exams, etc, even with the same syallabi) and some are fair-er with grading), *funding *(first: you get 12k across all 4 years to fund abroad travel (around 6k @ your freshman yr summer! im going abroad to beligum for less than 2k including all my aid + another 6k if you decide to do another abroad program or do co-op abroad + they help with visas/passports/etc), and scholarship honors money (between 2k-10k from what ive heard))

Other benefits I'll include in 5 minutes, class js ended haha!

[worthy depot]

Once you do could you make it more lined bullet format bc then I can pin it

[icy harness]

wait ok!

[icy harness]

@worthy depot It won't let me do bullet points for some reason but this is lowk it.. 🙏

UPDATED INFO: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThaTA1-m7IDXHbmYOvUwI9z_7JYX-5dRhvQdZKHgHzY/edit?tab=t.0

[icy harness]

@dense egret i hope this is a lot more helpful and def easier to read thru

obvi if you have questions please lmk (esp if i missed smthing)

Something I forgot (thank you Northeastern Honors Instagram) was the honors events we have for upperclassmen and freshman! Key word here is going to be free

• Our LLC groups (freshman hall groups) are twice the amount than the regular amount since evb lives in EV and are much more funded. My friends have gone to concerts for free, top college games (Harvard versus who knows) for free, and free food at places all around Boston! LLC groups are well funded because it's an only-honors thing and the RAs funding for events is double as well (according to the non-honors RAs I've spoken to).

• Upperclassmen, unheard of for non-Honors, experience this too! They had a free trip to Salem because it was Halloween/Fall season lmao. So, there's stuff for you to do regardless of your year.

[dense egret]

this is so helpful thank you so much for listing this! i'll take a really detailed look through it now

[icy harness]

ya of course!!

lowk whats ur major i might also have info on that

[dense egret]

Bio! Im thinking of doing a double major with a social science like poli sci or history tho

[icy harness]

Is it a combined major?

Think so bc I have 3+ girls doing bio w poli sci in my american gov class

But neu allows double majoring a lot easier here and you can switch pretty easily

I switched out of engineering in less than a week lowk into poli + bus admin and my advisor in enginnering helped me pick out a whole new classes and contacted the college of business on my behalf to get more of an idea of what i need (wo me asking!)

and was able to add my minor in 5 minutes

so changing and experimenting w ur major is rlly easy!

i can ask my roommate abt bio but im p sure you have to take chem

our chem 1 is a semster thing than a whole yr so its a lot more rushed and therefore, harder

so be weary of that

we have a lot of pre-med resources esp thru honors where we talk to the med kids + work w Tufts Medical Center here

my friend is doing an internship w them rn since last sem as a freshman and shes from CT

so theres a lot to do in that sense!

[dense egret]

Oh wow I see! I'm possibly doing a double major rather than combined so I'll look a bit more into that

Would you say it's super possible to do cross-college double majors? I'm admitted to just biology in college of science, but say if i wanted to do an engineering major or a social science major, would that be possible?

Also, what's your opinion on nu and its honours right now? Do you enjoy it, etcetc

Also, how would you say the experience could be for an international student? Are there many of intl students in honours, and whether the opportunities for research and internships and jobs equally apply to them?

[icy harness]

wait yes!

its a lot harder to do double bc thats 200+ hours so yk be like aware of that

but im in cssh + dmsb

js one is like ur main school w ur advisor

so at graduation ur not getting 2 diplomas i think idk for double majors lowk...

[icy harness]

on my floor, we have 4+ international kids

so we have a large presence for international students

jobs and internships depend on your visa

bc theres limitations and stuff

i can ask my bf more abt that stuff bc that would be the impactor of it all

but a lot of intl kids get on campus jobs bc its in line w their visa regulations so the increase in opps for on campus jobs helps!

[icy harness]

i LOVE my dorm even though its a triple, some of the stuff that occurs in communal bathrooms across the US is insaneeeee... so i do enjoy that! i also enjoy my classes and professors, one of them even offered me work w her phd student bc she knew my background bc of how small the class was!

another professor of mine has read a lot of my work and helped me look into publishing my own poetry + working w the writing center here bc he had time to get to know me

i can send a dorm pic of my area later so you get an idea of a triple

i also like my LLC events bc ive gotten to know my future roommates thru it and they pay for literally everything so ive had more chances to go across boston than most

[dense egret]

oh wow this sounds absolutely amazing! i'm defo waiting for my rd offers to roll in (if i get any) and comparing it with other countries' offers before i fully commit but this is super interesting and informative thank you!

a quick last question. as far as i know northeastern's employability and its relationships are more so business/engineering/computer science/social science. How would you say the advantages of northeastern itself applies for anyone interested in doing a pure science like bio or chem? is it like an equal amount of opportunities wit research and internships and things like that?

[icy harness]

our volunteering program, NU ACES, was able to set up a few kids @ Tufts and Boston Childrens Hospital their first sem here and im sure theres a lot more work being done there that im unaware of bc im not a bio/chem person:

• we have pre-med adivising w their own advisors so theyd work w you on that end
• i know 3 upper-classmen who got co-ops @ hospitals and medical centers so its not a dead end, we also have a lot of research opps (PEAK is a undergrad researhc program thatll pair you up w a professor and grant to do research!)
• a lot of labs... so email email email id say

i know there was a poster thing for the neuroscience kids based off of some work they did in their classes bc my roommate did that

so youd get experience designing posters if you want to go into reserch

thats the most i really know..

were also in a major city, id say coming from nyc, so a lot of areas in medicine work being done here

[dense egret]

yeah that sounds amazing thanks! i'll defo take that into consideration! i actually to be honest have no idea what field i wanna go into in the future but if i do science/healthcare i think nu would be super great asw

[icy harness]

i lowk dont either... 😭 i may change to a data sci + business admin w a minor in poli sci at the end of the sem but regardless its a good place to explore

[ebon coyote]

this makes me so sad that I can't go 😭

80k just still doesn't justify this 😔

[ebon coyote]

also, is it possible to still get more scholarships after admission?

[shy star]

yeah def you js apply to internal or outside scholarships

each college has their own college specific scholarship

and the school also sends emails about scholarship apps that are open

one of them i remember is like leadership

[ebon coyote]

hmm this'll make me think about it more. I'm just unsure bc rn I need like another 20k for me to even really consider the school. 14k is from the honors scholarship so if I do manage to get more internal scholarships then I'd need enough to cover the 14k they're gonna detract and then another 20k on top of it

it feels like it'd be a gamble to commit and hopefully get an internal scholarship that's 30-40k

I'm also very reluctant about outside scholarships bc they all seem really competitive except for my local ones and I don't even have a lot of local scholarships to apply to

[shy star]

i think it’s still worth a shot! the small local ones can add up to a lot

look for ones specific to your major as well

the internal ones aren’t that big i think they’re like 1-2k asw

let me go look for the emails