<p>"The N.U.in Program is a unique first-year experience that gives students an exciting early opportunity to explore new cultures abroad. Through The N.U.in Program, students spend the fall semester pursuing their academic studies at one of our four partner institutions overseas in Australia, Costa Rica, England, or Greece. This gives students the opportunity to become fully immersed in the local culture and gain invaluable insights into our increasingly global society. "</p>
<p>I received my decision from Northeastern today, and was accepted into the N.U.in program.
Even though I had wanted to be accepted into the Fall, I believe that this is a great opportunity and will be quite rewarding if I accept this offer.</p>
<p>So, for those accepted into N.U.in program, where would you go? My heart is leaning towards England or Costa Rica, but I’d love to visit Australia or Greece as well.</p>
<p>I really want to attend Northeastern as well, but I don’t like that the N.U.in program is somewhat of a backhanded spring deferral. Kinda makes me think I wasn’t as qualified as students who I will be meeting in the spring semester.</p>
<p>I want to go to the program in England or Greece if I do go. I’m leaning towards pre-med and Northeastern is practically on the same block as Harvard Medical School so I hope I can get an internship there. If we both go to England maybe I’ll see you there.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I was accepted to the NU.in program too. Northeastern was one of my top schools too, but I don’t know if I want to go abroad my first semester. It seems terrifying but exciting at the same time. If they gave me better financial aid, I would probably consider going. I think I’m going to go to the welcome day for NU.in anyway just to find out any more information about it and to see if it might be worth it.</p>
<p>If I did decide to go though, I think I would want to go to Australia. Or maybe England. Maybee I’ll see you guys there. Who knowss :)</p>
<p>S accepted into NU.in, I’m agree with SetsunaF007 on this. All the colleges he’s applied to have study abroad options and I want him to take advantage of that, but right out of the gate Freshman year, not so much. Not to mention only 5500/yr in loans for 56K tuition. I think it’s more like 'you didn’t really make the cut to Boston, but we’ll gladly take at least one semester of your money and let you take a fairly big risk.</p>
<p>The main thing I’m really worried about over anything else though is not adjusting well to the freshman class at Northeastern because of living in another country for a semester. Everyone else would have gotten a semester head-start to get to know each other and I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with that.</p>
<p>@SetsunaF007 yeah, same here =/ I wonder why they changed it this year.</p>
<p>Edit// disregard this post. I haven’t gotten my decision yet. I didn’t realize this thread was the NU.in acceptance thread. My nervousness is messing with my brain!</p>
<p>i was accepted into NUin for music industry. It sounds like an amazing opportunity, perhaps the fall admitted students are even missing out… however all of this THE FIRST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE?! thats huge, and scary. I always wanted to go to england to do a co-op since their music scene is so amazing, but this is really soon. University of Miami and NYU are suddenly looking up for me. I’d definitely go to England if I decide to stick with NU.</p>
<p>I was totally surprised by the NU in acceptance my S got. Perhaps, I was not really paying attention. To tell you the truth, I had never heard of this program before.</p>
<p>It hard to tell much about the program (from NU site )without actually talking to someone who’s been in the program before/or going to visit.</p>
<p>I suppose it is a sort of deferal to Spring adm.</p>
<p>If anyone actually finds out anything about it please, post some info ;-)</p>
<p>Does anyone know about this program being negotiable in the least? I would love to attend Northeastern, but I just don’t think studying abroad is feasible for me.</p>
<p>I was admitted to the N.U.in program as a Chemistry major. I did plan on studying abroad in college, but I don’t think I’d like to do it my first semester. Not only will I be missing out on my first semester of college and meeting my classmates but honestly, I feel like doing a study abroad before I’ve taken any classes is somewhat pointless and could end up just being a waste of time. I’d rather do one once I’ve gotten a handle on the material I’m learning and have a specific area or idea I’d like to focus on.
I probably won’t end up going to Northeastern just because of this. If I had been a fall admit I would have loved to go there, but I can’t risk not just an entire semester, but the first semester.</p>
<p>That was my initial reaction as well, before reading this thread.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m actually really excited about this, although I don’t know how my parents will feel when they hear about it. They’re asleep right now, so they’ll find out in the morning. But anyway, I’ve always wanted to study abroad in a foreign country, and although this is on short notice, there’s a good chance I’ll go to NEU, and it doesn’t look like there’s any negotiating with this. It seems like it’s “study abroad your first semester, or go to college somewhere else.” I’ll probably go to Greece. I’m very excited, but somewhat nervous, about this. It seems like most of you are considering going to other colleges because of this…is there anyone else that’s excited about this opportunity like I am?</p>
<p>I was initially excited until this thread too. The only thing I’m iffy on is the price, which hasn’t been specifically mentioned yet. If it’s included with the school tuition, I will consider this option a lot more than if there is an extra cost included. Otherwise, I don’t understand the big deal. We still are admitted, and we still get our first semester credits, so it’s not even technically a “spring deferral.”</p>
<p>howdyfabz - cost of the different NU.in programs is detailed in the financial aid documents, there should be a link at the bottom of your acceptance status page under “decision documents” I’m assuming ‘program costs’ includes transportation and housing, but not sure.</p>
<p>following the acceptance letter is a financial letter and it states the price which is pretty much the same as regulr tuition. England and Australia are more expensive by $2000 and I don’t know if this includes airfare but no financial aid applies to the first semester abroad. I wonder if the quality of education is as good as if you are on campus. It seems like a difficult adjustment, both college and moving to another country. Who can keep their focus on studies when you are in an amazing place? I would think being offered spring is better than being waitlisted? Do they have a waitlist for spring?</p>
<p>I didn’t send in one form to Northeastern, so I don’t know my financial package. I’m not expecting much, though, since FAFSA basically isn’t giving me anything. What do yours say?</p>
<p>So just to mention it to everyone who is stressing about “not fitting in” with everyone else- that is completely absurd. I’ve known plenty of people who did the program and not a single one of them had any issue with it. In fact most of the time they preferred that they did it their way because they made such good friends with their small NU.in. group. No one notices things like spring or fall admit. In most classes you’ll find everyone from second year transfers to freshman to a senior who slacked off. No one is going to be like “oh you only came in the spring? you’re not as smart.” They probably will say, however, “oh wow you already went to Greece, you’re so lucky.”</p>
<p>In my opinion if you want to go to Northeastern and you can afford it (because the price is stiff), then backing out because you’re scared or want the “typical” first semester experience is something you’ll regret. The point of college is not to have a laundry list of experiences that you grew up thinking you’d have based on movies and stories from other people.</p>
<p>So, I called Northeastern Undergraduate Admissions just a few hours ago and spoke to them to get more information about this program. I told them that Northeastern was my top choice as of now and that sending me abroad first semester of freshmen year would be difficult for my parents. But they told me that I should think of this as a great opportunity since only a limited amount of people got into this program. I realized that the admissions board put people into this program based on their views on how these students would adapt and adjust to living abroad. I don’t know about you guys, but in my college essay I talked about how I would love to get out of my comfort zone and try many adventurous things throughout my college experience. Maybe they put me into this program because they thought I would love this opportunity and take it. I applied to Northeastern as an undeclared major but I just sent in a request to change my major into accounting (the Co-op program). They told me that as long as i take accounting classes during my stay abroad, I will be able to be in the 5 year program just like everyone else in the program. So I am leaning towards going to Northeastern and studying abroad for the first semester. If you guys think about it… it is only 3 1/2 months and we’ll be back in the winter vacation just like every other freshmen in college. And I’m not at all nervous about adjusting and making new friends when I come to Northeastern in the Spring. I will have all these great stories and adventures to share about my wonderful experience abroad. I also feel that this program doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re less qualified than the people that got accepted for the fall. It just means that they felt like you were capable and strong enough to study abroad and that you would take this opportunity based on your essays/extra curricular activities. I don’t know, I may be wrong but I’m looking at this as an opportunity for me. :)</p>
<p>Hmmm, I’ve actually checked out the tuition for the N.U.in program and it seems more expensive than 1 semester at Northeastern. That being up to 5K in extra expenses. Not only that, but federal loans don’t seem to apply to that first semester. Northeastern is a great school, but this N.U.in program is really starting to sound fishy. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t have minded if I was just deferred to spring, but making my acceptance into the spring semester contingent with completing a fairly expensive program seems like a way for Northeastern to make more money than a real interest in maturing the students. The icing on the cake is the whole “study in another country” thing. I don’t think I’ll take the bait though. I would have rather just finished a semester at another university and transferred in if they had given me a regular deferral. The N.U.in program’s mission seems to want to make that option inviable so you end up giving Northeastern more money than towards another school (say a cheap public university) you’d attend for a few months.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, studying in another country does seem to be a great experience and most definitely can mature a person. If people want to attend the school through this program, that’s perfectly fine because there are many other reasons to attend Northeastern. However I don’t think I can afford to attend, financially and due to my personal morality.</p>