Hi there - the Northeastern Admissions Instagram page (@nuadmissions) has a post alerting prospective students of the following event on Instagram:
"Q&A Alert: Co-ops in PreMed and PreHealth
Hosted by Bouve College of Health Sciences and the College of Science
April 5, 2021 at 3:00pm EST"
I would send a LOCI. Be specific that Northeastern is your preferred choice at this point.
Thank you for your input! Iâm waiting for some kind of epiphany in the next few weeks!
Hey, this sounds useful! Thanks for directing me.
I canât speak to the other schools as I am not familiar with them, but both of my CA daughters have loved their NEU experience and are super happy they decided to go get the experience of living elsewhere and they love being in the city (were from a beach town.) A little harder getting to know people at first, but both have had tons of fun. Ohio state strikes me as a much more traditional school with big sports etc which is def not NEU.
Not so sure about this. I have heard of many students in research positions as unpaid which has always surprised me but those might be more research positions with profs on campus. Not sure.
Just wondering if NU will consider merit if it was appealed. Got merit for a school about 8 spots lower on the USNWR rankings. Or does it have to be a higher ranked school for it to be considered?
I doubt is any merit appeal will be successful.
Who on earth gets waitlisted at so many schools???
D18
Accepted (with large merit at schools that give merit):
Boston College
Northeastern Honors
UNC Chapel Hill- Out of state
Brandeis
Providence College- Honors
Worcester Polytech
UVM- Honors
Waitlisted:
Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Tufts, Colby, Middlebury, Boston University, Connecticut College (?)
Denied:
Nowhere. Strange.
It looks like top schools are hedging their bets and are uncertain about their yield since more people are applying to all the top schools.
Yes!
Thank you!
Your D definitely has some good options and may have some more after May 1. This was probably the most brutal year ever, so she is lucky to have some choices - these forums are riddled with kids who didnât take into account the COVID-related risks and really left themselves with few options. Good luck to her!
This correspondence below was from an instagram event about PreMed co-ops that NovaMom93 told me about here at CC a few days ago.
Question: Do PreMed co-ops pay enough to cover living expenses?
Answer: It really varies by type and location of the co-op. Most, but not all, of our positions are paid opportunities. The average co-op salary is between minimum wage and $17 an hour.
We also talked to a parent about her daughterâs pre-health co-op experiences located in Boston. My hope is that these co-ops are ârevenue neutralâ, i.e., cover daughterâs living expenses. He said that they did not for his daughter.
So I think the true answer will be, it depends. However, I would not be surprised if the most sought after opportunities may be on the lower end of the payscale.
Harvard Medical Area coops look great on a resume but tend to be lower paid ones but they are paid.
@TomSrOfBoston yes - research labs at Harvard/MIT tend to be on the lower range of pay, or offer stipends.
Also want to add that students may apply for any co-op position that they are qualified for in the portal. There are many positions (particularly in Boston because of the concentration of biotech/biopharmaceutical/med device companies) that take students from a variety of backgrounds: biochem, molecular bio, chemical engineers, bioengineers, mechanical engineers.
If your premed student has any of these backgrounds, then there is definitely opportunity to make a decent co-op salary ($20+/hr).
Patient care assistant positions at the area hospital systems pay on the lower end, but on the upside, students get hands-on experience on the floor. Same deal with the EMT training program that many do for a co-op - not super high pay, but theyâre trained as EMTs and work in the field.
My son got admission from NU and BU, and we are still sitting on the fence. We know both school are great schools, and we once lived in Boston so we know the campuses. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could comment on the following specific case: His applied for Mathematics major and got admission as such. Now he wants to do Math-CS double major. I am wondering how common & easy such transition is at Northeastern. I know Math is in CoS while CS is in Khoury, so I suspect it may be a bit tricky to double major. Son sent the inquiry to NU to have an official answer, but we would still appreciate the comments from students and families.
I think you can also do a combined CS-Math major in Khoury.
Have you joined the Northeastern Parents Facebook groups? There are 2 groups run by parents. Theyâve been very helpful!
Good luck with your decision!
Wow thank you so much for your reply! Yes son googled and found the program that you mentioned. I felt that the program is mostly for CS majors to expand to Math considering that the program is based in Khoury. Is it equally open to CoS students? Perhaps the best way is to check with NU Khoury, but son has been unsuccessful in getting replies so far. Maybe he tried to contact wrong people.
Also thank you for the facebook tip. I am a member of one, but did not know there are two. Will certainly join!!
NU offers combined majors where you can study two different subject matters. Search âcombined majorsâ on their website and you will see a long list of options, including a Mathematics and CS combined major. You can make the change request on the portal. We received approval about a week later. We were told when we called that NU accepts students based on the university and for most majors it is very easy to swap in and out (harder for nursing, PT and engineering, I believe).