<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Yeah Northeastern is really pricy. Especially your first year because you do not go on co-op so your tuition is the full 36,000. Your second year however it’s likley you will be on a co-op so yes, you don’t pay tuition durring this time, however if your co-op is in Boston you still pay for room and board if you need a place to stay, that is about 3,700.00. Remember too that you do get paid for your co-op job, and some of the engineering positions can pay decent, if you are disciplined enough to save the money you can use that to help pay for tuition as well.</p>
<p>Something to remember also is that even though you are not attending classes (most of the time) durring your co-op, or may not even be in the same state as Northeastern you are still considered a full time student and get all of the benefits of having that status, like still being under your parents health insurance and whatnot.</p>
<p>As for Northeastern’s merrit based scholarships it seems that most of them apply to the top 20% of the enrolling class, so it really depends on your peers too. Your GPA and SAT are dead center as compared to last years freshman class so I don’t know. On the other hand I know someone who transfered into the College of Arts & Sciences
with a 3.3 and got a 5,000.00/year scholarship so you never know.</p>
<p>Its a five year school so even though you are not paying for tuition when you’re on
co-op that extra year makes up for it. I think the math would be:
(5 years) - (1.5 years co-op) = 3.5
(3.5 years) * (36,000) = 126,000.00</p>
<p>So I guess I would take the $126,000 figure and minus Merit Aid, Federal and State aid, Outside Scholarships, and money from your co-op and you get your final number. Somewhere on Northeasterns web site it gives the average pay for co-op jobs by major as well as some other stats you need to finish the equasion. The only things up in the air would be the merit aid and outside scholarships and averages for that may be on there too.</p>
<p>Well I hope this helps!
And may you not have to get a huge “Signature Loan” each semester like me!</p>