The gator arrogance extends far beyond academics
I interview for Rutgers in New England and have placed 20 plus kids at Rutgers who were intent on Maryland or Delaware. Rutgers is far superior academically to both and from my extensive research has its best academic peer in Wisconsin. When I tell kids and parents about the Rutgers Philosophy and History Departments and the burgeoning Business School they are stunned. Really. The Honors College has the 5th highest SAT average in the country! Sorry Penn,Brown and Cornell. It still has weak name recognition and many incredibly mistakes the R for Radford! But,it improves perception wise yearly.
I think I read somewhere that Rutgers-NB, PSU, and Rowan had the most graduating HS students from Lenape last year. I think they sent a bunch of students to TCNJ, UConn, and Delaware as well.
RU Comm School and Mason Gross are also highly regarded and both benefit greatly from the close proximity to NYC/Philly and even DC and Boston. I'd put our Comm School up against anyone, even the overrated Newhouse school.
MY Rutgers College degree cost me under $10k. I was tuition free as my mom was a long time employee of the University and had they let me apply my state scholarship to room and board (vs. turning it back in) it would have been well under $6k. What a racket it has become.
It's a rather urban campus in Lincoln. Whereas the cow tipping is likely front and center in Crappy Valley.
You have no idea who the next targets are for BIG expansion nor does anyone on these message boards.
UW used to be considered one of the 2nd tier publics after like UCLA, UVA, Michigan, UNC, etc. Now its down in 3rd tier with us.
I mean there are only a handful of possibilities and you've gotta thing that UW is one of them.
Yeah. You figure Tier 1 for public universities are: Michigan, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, UVA, and UNC. Tier 2 would be Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, Illinois, maybe Georgia Tech. Tier 3 is Rutgers, Maryland, Pitt, Purdue, Minnesota, Washington, OSU, Texas A&M, some of the other UC schools like Irvine or Davis, etc.
I agree that our academic peers within the B1G are Maryland, PSU, OSU, and Purdue. If you include all Northeast public universities, Pitt is an academic peer of ours as well.
Nebraska does have a medical school. Indiana shares one with Purdue in Indianapolis (with IU being the lead) and Illinois’ is in Chicago. Maryland’s is in Baltimore. Penn St’s is in Hershey. Separate campuses but combined for AAU, same as RU.
PSU has taken a big drop. I wouldn't consider it a peer anymore.
It is Moorestown. Another commitment to Indiana last night. My son says there are at least 4 other kids that he knows of who will go to RU.
I feel like South Jersey kids at public high schools in upper middle class suburbs are more receptive to attending RU-NB (Lenape/Shawnee/Cherokee, Cherry Hill East, Eastern, Haddonfield, Moorestown, etc) compared to North Jersey.
All these schools have a massive push to accept first generation and international students.
Depends on your scope. Kids from Marlboro, Manalapan, Colts Neck, Freehold, Howell, Old Bridge, and East Brunswick probably collectively make up 5-7% of the total enrollment every year. My class alone in Marlboro had upwards of 100-150 kids at Rutgers.
Agree, but none of us know. I was responding to the one poster that said Cal and Stanford were up next and UW would already be in if the BIG wanted them.
Explain then why the med schools on separate campuses is ok for the other schools I noted ? Med schools in Baltimore, Chicago, Indianapolis and Hershey.Losing AAU status not fatal for Nebraska
MU leaders have repeatedly expressed the importance of membership in the Association of American Universities. But a look at the University of Nebraska's ouster from the AAU shows a differentwww.columbiamissourian.com
I think the more in-depth answer is simply that without their medical school, Nebraska doesn't pull that same level of federal research dollars.
"He said the AAU's four criteria were unfair disadvantages for UNL because the NU system is organized with separate flagship (UNL) and medical campuses (the University of Nebraska Medical Center). Most AAU institutions have medical schools, which tend to get large amounts of research dollars, Perlman said.
"With UNMC's research included, we would have had research expenditures above many other AAU institutions," he said."
"The AAU dumped Nebraska essentially for two reasons.
First, the University of Nebraska’s medical school is at its Omaha campus, not the flagship campus in Lincoln. So, any federal research dollar, premier faculty member and publication in a prestigious journal from the medical school couldn’t be counted toward Nebraska’s AAU status.
Second, the university focuses heavily on agriculture research, a priority for a land grant institution. But in the eyes of the AAU, most agricultural research is not peer-reviewed, competitive research, so it is “not considered as highly,” AAU spokesman Barry Toiv said, compared with medical and economic research."
So not sure why you're tone is all dismissive. Wouldn't grade myself an F, maybe a B for solid information.
Much less? Many less? It's fewer. Learn English grammar or die.
I was always under the impression they were, academically, very good.
72 - Do you volunteer as an interviewer or do you work for admissions? I used to do college fairs as a volunteer for RU in NY, but that stopped when Covid began.
You said Cal and Stanford which is not true at all. I don't know anything and neither do you.
Nothing wrong with a little school spirit, right?
As a grammar Nazi wannabe, I always cringe when I hear the name of LSU's former football coach. Should his name be "Fewer Miles?"
My firm had a preference for hiring RU grads even though our home office is in NYC--and I will tell you those guys and gals are doing quite well. They are senior vps and one on the board. Our MIT guys do quite well also. Our experience with ex fb players from the Ivies sucked --they were clueless. The Princeton baseball player I hired however did tremendously.My belief is that RU generally creates smart ,hard workers that work well with others. And if you can ,as a RU alumni , please give them a preference .
