<p>I was accepted undeclared into honors program, but now I’m wondering if I’d be better off declaring a major, since I believe I will be pursuing International Affairs. This would affect the classes I register for @ orientation, correct? And I thought I heard something about having to declare a major a certain amount of time before being able to do a co-op for that major. </p>
<p>So… pros/cons for declaring now?</p>
<p>You have to be in a major before you can take that major’s co-op class, which you have to do at least a semester before you do co-op.</p>
<p>Also, if you declare a major before orientation, you will be in the International Affairs at Northeastern course, which sometimes helps you learn about the major, the professors, and the advisors. </p>
<p>You would probably be placed in at least one class towards the IAF major. On the other hand, my undeclared roommate last year spent all first semester taking core honors classes, and now has them all out of the way, including most of her honors requirements.</p>
<p>Decisions, decisions… I think I have until 3 weeks before orientation to decide what to do… does that sound right?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’ll really make a huge difference. As a freshman I only took one class that was really related to my major (I was a social studies major, not science yet), and otherwise just took kind of random electives.</p>
<p>The intro class for int. affairs is Globalization and International Affairs with Denise Horn, and it’s a GREAT class (actually one of my favorite classes that I’ve taken). They’d place you into it if you declare that major, but you can also take it if you don’t declare since it’s a huge class. </p>
<p>Other than that, you’ll mostly take your choice of CAS electives, honors courses, and classes to fulfill Freshman writing and math (unless you placed out with AP). So really, it doesn’t effect you that much. Your schedule wouldn’t be very different if you were IAF or just undeclared, taking the IAF intro course.</p>
<p>I would wait, and take classes that you are interested in. I declared engineering and ended up taking classes that won’t count for other majors. I ended up switching and now my chemistry class does not count for anything except elective credit so I have to retake chemistry if I choose to stay at NEU. I applied for transfer and am still waiting to hear from one school, but its up in the air… My advice, come in undeclared and take what you are interested in, then declare after your first semester or second semester.</p>
<p>If you wait to declare, you could still take the Globalization class. I’m taking it for a minor, so even if you decide not to do IAF, you could still get an IAF minor using it as a class.</p>
<p>I’m starting to think that I might as well wait. Can anyone tell me how registration works at orientation? Am I already supposed to know exactly what classes I want? (I know I’m not going to have too much freedom in choosing first-year courses though, of course.)</p>
<p>You’ll have an advisor guide you with a sheet of classes you can take and what you are expected to take. Not sure how it’ll work for an undeclared major though.</p>
<p>Well, I heard they put a lot of pressure on undeclared students to declare a major. One of my friends was undeclared during orientation and declared when he came to school because the advisor pressured him so much. Another one of my friends (who stayed undeclared) got bullied by the advisor into not taking French because she wasn’t interested in any major that would require French. For the most part though, they probably want you to focus on either taking classes that will help you declare or taking a bunch of core classes to get them out of the way.</p>