<p>Oh, and the “social justice” thing… So the honors program has a required community service day when you first get to campus, and they have one in the spring that is for people who came into the program late. They also have a mini-LLC (within the honors LLC) that’s called something related to community service or social justice or something. Also the books they tend to make freshmen read usually have a community-related aspect to them, since they try to pick books about Boston and Bostonian books nearly always are about racial issues, busing crisis, poverty, etc. </p>
<p>But trust me, been here for three years and except for reading Easter Rising my freshman year and knocking on people’s doors for a few hours to try to get them to vote, I haven’t been around anything that screams SOCIAL JUSTICE.</p>
<p>However Northeastern really likes kids who volunteer, and there is a full-tuition scholarship for people with crazy huge amounts of volunteering (I know a kid who got it due to 1500+ hours in high school). But there is no actual evidence that a kid with a bad gpa will get in if he did lots of volunteering. The top 10% is ranked in the same way they do it when considering applications- which is a method you can guess all you want about, but you’ll never really find out.</p>