I don't think there's a way to know that for sure. Probably a lot of those kids would have been strong candidates at Rutgers-Camden.
It would be nice for the professionals who make the numbers decisions to have been right on, so we dont have to anger students by housing them in triples or off campus hotels like a few years ago, nor do we lose
FWIW Rutgers-NB had this problem last year. They cut their acceptance rates but then a higher % of the accepted kids ended up choosing RU-NB, so they ended up with more kids than they wanted. It is going to happen to schools sometimes and sometimes they will get fewer than projected (in which case they start calling "waitlisted" kids I think).
I have heard nothing about RU-Camden's enrollments. It's not the kind of info our administration is very open about. I do know that enrollments have increased the last couple of years. BTW, I thought DerLeider's comments were well-said. But I do have the sense that a lot of those kids going to Rowan and Del are South Jerseyans who just think NB is too far away.
I suspect not. Rowan and RU-NB are not on the same level. Not that a kid that got into both won't occasionally pick Rowan, but I can't imagine a serious student (i.e. one who firmly got into RU-NB, not barely edged over the line) picking Rowan unless its for a major where Rowan excels but RU lacks (not sure what those would be.)
Delaware is much closer. Its in the same general area. It draws a similar student body, although obviously Delaware isnt Rutgers as far as research goes - but I think most students at both schools arent doing science, so research dollars are kind of meaningless.
I am talking more a big picture thing. And with that being said, IMO Delaware is closer to a TCNJ than Rutgers...a nice regional school that has quite a few good things going for it but is not on the level of the big boys.
There is a lot of non-science research going on at Rutgers, too. There are a lot of students who major in English, History, Philosophy, International Studies, etc., who want to go to a research university where they get exposure to some of the top thinkers in their fields.
Yes. UD is the land grant school for Delaware and it has a College of Ag and Nat Res as well as running an extension service, etc. That said, having an ag school doesn't necessarily equate to a university being a research powerhouse or automatically add a research component that cements it as a big boy university, it simply broadens the number of natural science fields that research is being performed in.
Thats a good example - except in a better Newark. A combined RU-N/NJIT wouldnt be that far behind RU as far as student body goes (although gain, like Delaware, it would lag significantly in research dollars.)
Der, while I understand what you are saying, as an undergrad in the Business School I still had plenty of professors that were doing research and they often brought that research to the classroom. I would imagine someone getting a degree that is more "hard science" or STEM in general is going to get exposure to a lot of new research in their respective fields, even if they are not participating in the research themselves. The same will be true for liberal arts majors, I suspect, but just to a lesser degree.
Like I said - if you are in the sciences then it is MORE important. But even then beyond the effect that it has one the reputation of the program as a whole, its probably not THAT important. In other words - it has an effect, in that when people have a certain major in mind, they tend to choose the best available program in that major, and the research being done by the faculty is a major contributor to that perception.
