Northeastern VS Uconn Honors

novafan1225
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 17:57:37 +0000

@screenname17 You can almost certainly get internships, but it’ll be much more of an uphill battle and you will likely only get one the summer before your senior year. That’d probably be 10 weeks, possibly unpaid? Whereas NU will be 12-18 months of full-time well-paid experience. About the extra year though…

NU can be done in 4 years if that’s a consideration. It will be 8 semesters regardless, or the same number of credits, but you can take summer half semesters either May/June or July/August (depending on when you’re not on co-op) during your summer. If you come in with 0 AP/IB/DE credit, this means you will need to take both summer semesters after freshman year, and your non-coop summer semester after sophomore and junior year. Keep in mind summer semesters are also offered as “dialogues” if you choose to do so- 2 months of living and studying abroad, typically for 2 related classes/around a theme. If you bring in credit, you can reduce your number of required summer semesters. For example, I brought in over 30 credits and will not have to do a summer session at all.

Here’s a good visual of what patterns can look like.
http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/academics/advising/4yr5yr/

Finally, what I mean is that I’m assuming UConn has a relatively active Greek life, lots of drinking (because what else do you do in Storrs?) in traditional frat type parties where there are big houses, or in bars because everyone has a fake. In Boston, as you can imagine, it’s pretty hard to “hide” from the cops in a city where everyone is on top of each other, so your stereotypical frat parties don’t really happen. When we try, they’re busted by cops usually within an hour. There’s no “Greek row” at any of our schools or anything. Additionally, fakes are a lot harder to use in Boston and as a result it’s really not common for underclassmen to go out to bars (this seems to be the main scene for my friends at rural schools). So our social scene is generally smaller house parties, crowded frat basements, etc. until 21 and then bars/pubs are a thing. Compare that to a D1, rural school that’s going to be more of your typical keg party in a big house, tailgating, etc. It can be really difficult for guys under 21 to party in Boston; because we’re already shoved into tiny spaces and houses, the frat guys running the door aren’t going to want to let in guys who take up valuable real estate over the girls they want to get with, lol. Pretty much the only sure bets for guys are to join a frat, or play a club sport that parties (lax, rugby).

Sorry I just wrote so much… let me know if you’re confused!