Transfer Housing

MagiTF · 11-30-2007, 05:30 PM

I'm considering transferring to NU and I was curious about the housing situation for transfer students. Do they provide housing for transfer students? If they only provide it for some, do they tell you whether or not they can provide it for you prior to acceptance. If not, what other options are there? My main concern is being socially isolated from the school by being forced to find a single apartment off campus.

dfleish · 12-01-2007, 02:17 AM

There is a "transfer house" on campus, but I'm pretty sure you can request to live in "regular" dorms as well.

MagiTF · 12-01-2007, 02:20 AM

Thanks.

I have another question... one of my main concerns with my current institution is the ridiculous class sizes. Even though it's a great school, I feel like it's hard to get to know professors with 500+ chem classes. How are the class sizes at NU? Is it easier to get to know the teachers, etc.

Sam Lee · 12-01-2007, 03:43 AM

2006-07 Instructional faculty and class size, Common Data Set - Northwestern University (scroll down to the bottom)

Blaze991 · 12-01-2007, 04:16 AM

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Do they provide housing for transfer students?

According to the admission's website, transfer housing is not guaranteed. However, when I asked an admission counselor last year whether transfer housing is guaranteed, she said yes. I transferred this fall, and I haven't heard of any stories about a transfer who wanted housing but who did not get it. While transfer housing is not officially guaranteed, there is reason to believe that, in practice, all Fall transfers get housing if they want it.

sungashick · 12-01-2007, 01:14 PM

transfer housing is guaranteed for winter applicants this year. You can always get housing, always!

MagiTF · 12-03-2007, 03:14 AM

"2006-07 Instructional faculty and class size, Common Data Set - Northwestern University (scroll down to the bottom)"

Those stats can be deceptive... Berkeley has a student:fac ratio of 15:1... but most of the classes there are ridiculously large... certainly not 15. Can anyone tell me from experience what I could expect in terms of class size? I'm a political science major doing pre-med.

dfleish · 12-03-2007, 10:43 AM

Science classes will obviously be very big and impersonal. There are plenty of huge Poli Sci classes too. I mean big lectures, like 100-200 people. But every program has smaller seminar style classes too. Especially as you get into the upper level classes. These are like 15-20 person classes... so it definitely varies. Given your two majors though you're in for a mix of class sizes, especially because of pre-med, I'd think. But wouldn't that happen anywhere? I don't know any school as renowned as NU for the sciences that teaches 15 person Orgo classes.

Sam Lee · 12-03-2007, 11:25 AM

MagiTF,

look at the table at the very end of that page.

elsijfdl · 12-11-2007, 10:36 PM

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Those stats can be deceptive... Berkeley has a student:fac ratio of 15:1... but most of the classes there are ridiculously large... certainly not 15. Can anyone tell me from experience what I could expect in terms of class size? I'm a political science major doing pre-med.

the intro classes will be very large, not state-school large, but large. the upper-level classes will be much smaller. northwestern is a university and not a liberal arts school and has a university feel. so do the rest of the top 15 ranked schools, if you really are concerned about having small classes, amherst, williams, middlebury, etc. are your best bets