@binky17 I apologize for the delayed response. I have many good things to say and haven’t had a minute to articulate them. I’ll try to do it justice briefly.
My husband received his graduate degree from Northeastern in '97 and with the exception of a few hockey games has not been on campus since. My daughter thought she was going to have to revive him with smelling salts when he saw the investment that Northeastern has made in the campus since his graduation. Next year’s honors housing is magnificent, newly built, with two doubles sharing a single bathroom. It sounded like the lower floors are for freshman, and the fantastic view from the upper floors were for sophomores and a few older students. East Village is definitely more central than I’ntl Village and a great place to start making new connections. We did not see the inside of the new science and engineering building but from the outside it looks dazzling.
The entire day was well planned and executed like everything Northeastern has done in this process. The students that Northeastern put in front of the audience were impressive. They had all travelled extensively and multiple times during their undergraduate career through the dialogue of civilization, traditional study abroad and/or co op. My daughter was prompted to observe that some schools version of a complete student was someone that had read Plato and taken math and Northeastern has totally redesigned the complete student to mean extensively travelled with academic and real world skills. Another nice touch, the honors students were all given a copy of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, and all will read it regardless of major before the author visits campus in the fall.
My daughter was impressed with the other students in the group as well, and for her it’s extremely gratifying to be surrounded by motivated, talented peers. It sounded like most had been admitted to other highly competitive schools (ex. Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, Michigan) and were genuinely considering Northeastern.
Congratulations if your son has already decided on Northeastern. We left without a doubt that our daughter could have an extraordinary experience there.