r/NEU

just got admitted! when does financial aid information come out?

Hi, I’m looking for a housing group with other girls preferably with a kitchen. I can go solo or I also have a roomate if needed, our housing group just got blown up and my mediation failed 😭

Rising 4th year. I haven't done too much so far in college and I was thinking about going into investment banking, and recruiting in the upcoming cycle for full time roles. How likely if i locked in on coffee chats and learning technicals now would it be that I'm able to get a job in nyc or boston post grad. Any advice for IB people @ neu?

Hi does anyone know how hard it is to change colleges if you're transferring into northeastern? Is it possible to change before starting? E.g. from arts and sciences to business

I got accepted into the NUin program and my major is civil engineering (I will be starting in the 2026-2027 school year). When I applied, I had indicated I would be taking Ap Calculus AB. I have already taken and passed the class, but I wanted to take it again because I felt I didn’t fully understand the subject. My counselor advised me to drop it because it was redundant, and he told me he would reach out to all the schools I was applying to and notify them of the change. I just found out today that he never reached out, and I have already committed to Northeastern and they think I’m still retaking the course. I just emailed admissions but I’m really worried. Should I call them as well? What should I do and will they rescind me for this?

In the recently published op-ed “We should all stop going to the gym,” Arvind Chettiar argues that gym culture reflects a commodified, isolating version of wellness — one that prioritizes individual optimization over genuine community, and ultimately fails to address the broader loneliness epidemic.

The framing overlooks what Sophia Sachs outlined just days earlier. She detailed what resistance training actually looks like: improving cancer survivability, preventing diabetes, strengthening cardiovascular health and extending lifespan. The science is solid; read it.

To be fair, some of his critique lands. As the author points out, the loneliness epidemic is real, building community matters and the wellness industry does commodify self-care in ways worth critiquing. Those points are valid. 

But the piece makes sweeping, inflammatory claims about gyms and the people who use them that don’t hold up.

Not even trying to glaze Northeastern for no reason but sometimes I genuinely forget how insane the co-op advantage is until I talk to friends at other schools.

Especially as an international student in the US job market right now… getting work experience is HARD. Like really hard. Most students at other colleges are fighting for random internships with barely any structure, while at Northeastern co-op is so normalized that companies literally expect to hire us.

I have friends at other universities who are struggling just to get interviews meanwhile Northeastern students are out here doing co-ops at places like BCG, Apple, Tesla, Puma, the Big 4, biotech companies, luxury brands, startups, literally everywhere 😭

And the craziest part is how “normal” it feels to us because everyone around us is doing it.

Obviously recruiting is still stressful and nothing is handed to you, but compared to most international students in the US, we are genuinely in a very privileged position career-wise. The amount of actual corporate experience people graduate with here is wild.

Sometimes I complain about Northeastern and then I remember most colleges do not have an entire system built around students getting 6 months of full-time work experience before graduating 💀

Co-ops never have and never will be guaranteed. That doesn’t even make sense.

A co-op is an internship that last half a year. That’s half a year’s worth of salary, and half a year’s worth of time where full timers spend a significant amount of time training instead of working.

When I was deciding to come here, Northeastern - or at least khoury college - emphasized that it will be up to the student to be qualified enough to find a co-op. No company wants someone that doesn’t have the skill to perform or the attitude to be trainable.

What northeastern provides is the scaffolding. The employer relationships that shrink the scope of competition to just your school instead of the country or world. The co-op class that teaches resume writing and interview prep. The culture centered around co-ops that everybody knows are difficult to get - which in turn creates a culture where everyone is working extra to make sure they get one.

93% of people get a co-op. The remaining 7% is dominated by those who weren’t looking for one and instead went for the research route or some other experiential learning option. Northeastern’s strategy works.

If co-ops were guaranteed, nobody would see the point in trying to excel, since the immediate payoff no longer exists. This would ironically probably push down the quality of graduates from the school.

I feel for the people who couldn’t get co-ops, but the process was never designed to be guaranteed. Northeastern’s job is a to facilitate the job search, not replace it.

Im a rising senior, international, did my first co-op in finance in NYC and this search has been hell. I managed to get 2 interviews, one straight up ghosted, the other was my dream job and i managed to get to the final round but was ultimately rejected. This was in mid to early March. Since then I've just been sending out applications and hearing nothing back, and with such little postings I've frankly just given up.

I've compromised so much in terms of pay and role that I'm literally applying to just about anything I can find and still hearing nothing back. I've tailored my resume a million times, and I know It's not lacking anything major because I've landed interviews at some really impressive companies - I've even had meetings with my co-op advisor where she literally straight up told me to stop obsessing over my resume and just apply more, etc etc. It feels like a bad timing thing, especially since I secured my first co-op by end of February.

I've already registered for fall classes and accepted defeat - plus an earlier ish graduation wouldn't be so bad... but still the process of just clinging onto hope and applying every day and so forth has surprisingly taken a much bigger toll on my mental health than I anticipated. I've gone from feeling a little behind and confused, to just completely despondent and hopeless, as if my future is just doomed. Not to be over dramatic, but if people with 3 co-ops can't get a job rn, i can't imagine how cooked i am being an international who couldn't even secure his second

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im a junior in high school in the boston suburbs, thinking about applying to NEU. the thing is i wanna major in cs/ee and ik the job market is cooked rn, but going to a t20 helps you land big tech roles from what i've heard. but recently, one of my family friends graduated from neu and landed a swe full time job at a HUGE big tech company (lowk my dream job bro).

so tldr, do the co-ops rlly help that much, specifically for computer science? if i came to NEU as a cs major, what would my odds be of finding an internship/job at neu? how much of a boost does the co-ops give?

I got my transfer credit evaluation tab last week Thursday(5/14). Do y’all think the first wave is gonna come out this Thursday?

I'm a CS major who graduated a few weeks ago and everything has been a rapid downhill spiral. I put every single ounce of my energy into the job search starting last fall and into graduation. Hundreds of applications just to get autorejected. I had some hope though because some places told me I was just "too early", I thought I could graduate and actually have prospects but nope.

The only job I was able to get is a short-term contract where I have to stand all day and be a solicitor, being yelled at about numbers when nobody wants us random strangers approaching them and asking for something when they have things to do. My back starts getting ready to give out midway through the shift, I take more than the max dose of Aleve on the package and it does absolutely nothing. But if I sit down for a few seconds while we wait for new people to come in to ask, it's a problem. I'm constantly in pain and being treated like shit by the general public, like an annoyance at best or like a criminal at worst because solicitors naturally make people suspicious. No hate to people without degrees but nobody else I'm working with has a degree or hard technical skills. I spent 4 years grinding on this degree, building and deploying web apps outside of class, co-oping, resume workshopping, visiting the career studio, career fairs, learning Microsoft Stack and shit, all of it just for that??? A shitty, degrading job that doesn't require any of the skills and qualifications I worked for?

I have 3 days left in this contract and I'm throwing up thinking about finishing out the week. It is genuinely terrible. All of my coworkers hate being there as well it's just constant physical pain, rejection, dirty looks and nasty comments, and group complaining. I made a version of my resume tailored for entry IT roles and frantically sent out applications over the past month as well but that is also not converting. One company has ghosted me for 3.5 weeks after a final round interview, one has ghosted me 11 days after a phone screener, and I got a rejection from a company I had a phone screener with earlier today. So now I only have one real IT pipeline I got from a staffing agency and I'm only at the stage where the recruiter pushes my resume to the company that's not a guarantee that I'll get the role or even an interview a this point. I have gotten one concrete offer for when my current contract ends and it's another public facing event role with 8-10 hours of standing. The only improvement is its informational instead of us having to go up and bother people. But that doesn't even start until June so on Friday when my contract ends I have to file for unemployment.

I'm operating with very little family support, I'm independent, I have nowhere to go back to. I'm supposed to be spending this summer with my first real job, working on settling into a career, looking at rooms to rent on Sep 1 when my lease is up and having the room to have a little bit of selection instead of having to take the first sublet I can find that won't ask for paystubs.

I genuinely don't have anything to live for at this point. I can't land anything that's not degrading and a horrible fit. I can't use my degree at all, I can't even land entry-level IT positions. Every opportunity turns out to be a bust. I mean hell I had a final round SWE interview for a robotics company in Boston that I was so excited about, it would have changed my life and given me financial stability I've never had, and they rejected me 4 minutes before Fenway commencement and completely ruined the ceremony for me. I can't even celebrate my grad school acceptance because I have to hide it from employers to seem less complicated and nothing is guaranteed without income. Graduation wasn't exciting or full of opportunity at all, it's been nothing but a massive loss of support and downgrade in quality of life. And a lot of my friends think I'm the lucky one because "at least I found a job". Rising seniors need to be prepared because it is a massive cliff and the school does not prepare people for it at all. I mean their social media is all still talking about hopes, dreams, and opportunity while graduates are relegated to low-skill, degrading work, filing for unemployment, or being sent home. I put in all this work and I'll probably have to file for unemployment.

Hello,

I’m starting college this august and I have two options: BU and Northeastern (NUin program at Northern Ireland- only for the first semester then back to the boston campus).

I’m planning to major in CS and probably do double major down the road. But I’ve heard bu has a grade deflation and it’s hard to get a really high gpa (3.8+), which is a very important factor for me as well since I’m aiming to go to Harvard Law School afterwards.

At the same time going to Northern Ireland for NEU isn’t really interesting for me. I was also rejected from my dream school (nyu) and then I thought maybe I’d transfer, but with NEU it’s harder since I’m not gonna be in the major campus the first semester, and at bu I’m scared to not get the required gpa for transferring (3.8+). If you have any idea about how achievable this gpa at bu for cs major, can you help me out?

Thank you:)