<p>Semper31 - I’m glad you were able to answer your own question. This kind of thing happens for some of our majors, so I gather that you now know that you were admitted with the other major. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Yes thank you Dean, and as I have been looking into it International Business maybe a better fit for me anyway</p>
<p>Can I somehow switch the day I’m supposed to have summer orientation? I’m going to the shore that week and was wondering if I could go to one of the orientations the week before. Do I have to go when my major is?</p>
<p>Dean Rifkin,</p>
<p>What is the admissions rate for the Class of 2015?</p>
<p>I don’t know the admission rate for the Class of 2015 and probably won’t know that until mid-September. In the past our admission rate has hovered between 35-42%. </p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dean Rifkin,</p>
<p>I am a student at TCNJ. I wish my college would become more selective. I saw somewhere on NJ.com that the admission rate for the Class of 2015 was 38 percent. Is this true?</p>
<p>Here is the link: [As</a> competition grows, students in N.J., nationwide apply to more colleges | NJ.com](<a href=“http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/students_in_nj_nationwide_appl.html]As”>As competition grows, students in N.J., nationwide apply to more colleges - nj.com)</p>
<p>Thanks,
KingRobert</p>
<p>What are the job prospects for accounting majors</p>
<p>Dean Rifkin,</p>
<p>Do you happen to know how the waitlist is set up? Is it by a ranking? Also, do you happen to know when waitlisted students will hear back? thanks!</p>
<p>Dean Rifkin:</p>
<p>I got my letter of acceptance about a month or so ago but I still have not received my financial aid letter. When should I be expecting that to come?</p>
<p>Dear KingRobert:</p>
<p>Our acceptance rate at TCNJ is similar to those at Boston University, Emerson College, Lafayette University, Dickinson College, and Penn State University, among others. </p>
<p>Our Admissions Office reviews applications for the many and diverse programs at TCNJ and then extends enough offers of acceptance (in accordance with the history of how many admitted students have accepted our offer of admission in previous years) in order to bring in a class of freshmen that is the “right size” for our institution , keeping in mind the number of beds in our dormitories, seats in classrooms, number of faculty, number of staff in student support areas, and so forth. </p>
<p>I imagine that this same process unfolds in admissions offices at colleges and universities across the country.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dear CrabCake1:</p>
<p>Roughly 75% of our accounting grads have a job in hand when they graduate. We expect the accounting job market to remain very good over the next few years, and that comes from conversations our Dean of Business has had with major accounting firms. The average salary for accounting grads is $55K, the highest average salary among all of our majors. Many accounting students receive multiple offers before graduating, but that depends in part on whether or not the students have had internships while in college.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dear FallingSlowly:</p>
<p>The waitlist is set up right away when we send out our notifications. We begin to contact students from the waitlist to offer them a seat in the freshman class as seats become available. Typically this process begins to unfold in May and through the next couple of months.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dear AnaGreen93:</p>
<p>Most students should have received their letters already, but some are being put in the mail now. If you don’t have it by the end of next week, please call TCNJ Student Financial Services at 609 771 2602.</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dean Rifkin,</p>
<p>I have a question about AP credits. I have the potential to come in with 10 course units worth of AP credits, which I gathered from the legend on TCNJ’s website (USH, BC Calc, Chem, US/Comp Gov, Bio, Lit, Music Theory).</p>
<p>What does this mean in terms of class registration, and whether or not I’d come in with freshman or sophomore standing? </p>
<p>I’m currently a Biology major, but I’m really interested in having a double major with Political Science (it’s been a pursuit of mine since middle school). Would having these credits make this more feasible? I’m not really interested in graduating a year early, but I would imagine coming in with a year’s worth of extra time would be helpful for a double major.</p>
<p>Dear Feareman:</p>
<p>Congratulations on your admission and on your academic success as reflected in all those AP credits.</p>
<p>Students who transfer in AP credits get earlier registration windows, so this helps you with getting first crack at the classes you want to take. The credits that you bring in will also help make it easier for the double major. As a Bio major, I doubt that the Bio AP will do much for you, but you can ask about that at Accepted Students Day.</p>
<p>In short, you don’t have to graduate early, but having the extra credits will be useful. You can and should talk with your Biology Advisor about this when you come for Orientation in July.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Dear TCNJ Class of 2015:</p>
<p>If you’re coming to Accepted Students Day, I’ll be happy to meet you in person. I’ll be spending two hours in the Atrium of the Social Science Building just meeting and talking with students and their families. No presentation - just hello’s and answers to your questions.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>Ben Rifkin
Dean of the School of Culture and Society
The College of New Jersey</p>
<p>I got into Georgetown University- School of Foreign Service recently and TCNJ. I love both schools equally but cannot afford GU. I will be a political science major hoping to pursue a career in the law. How are the placements for law schools at TCNJ?</p>
<p>sjanuse:</p>
<p>Law school admissions are pretty formulaic. GPA and LSAT are almost the only things that matters to top law schools. As counterintuitive and silly as it may seem, a 4.0 GPA and 170 LSAT Basketweaving major from Unknown-State University will beat the 3.4 GPA and 170 LSAT Biomedical-Engineering major from MIT almost every time for the top 14 schools.</p>
<p>I believe a girl got into Harvard Law last year from TCNJ’s Political Science program (Although she spent a year with Teach for America or something in between, after being rejected the year prior). A couple years ago, there were a few Philosophy majors that went to UChicago and a few people that went to Duke. There was an Economics major that got into Penn. Every year, a few go to top schools.</p>
<p>It really depends on how you do once you’re here (and how you do on the LSAT). If you’re capable of scoring in the 99th percentile on the LSAT and getting near perfect grades in college, you will be able to get into a top 6 school (or a top 14 school with a scholarship) with no problem regardless of where you go.</p>
<p>That said, Georgetown’s SFS is a really great program in an ideal location for what you’d be studying. It would be more challenging and probably a more fulfilling experience than TCNJ (Although TCNJ’s Political Science program is pretty good too). I would weigh the intellectual fulfillment and awesome experience against the price.</p>
<p>Law school costs a lot of money. Not going to a top 14 school means taking a huge financial risk that could end with you taking a 40k a year job with a 200k debt load that you will never be able to pay off. In this economy, even being below median at a top 14 school is not enough to guarantee a job that will allow you to pay off your debt within your lifetime. You might not want to leverage yourself too much in undergrad.</p>
<p>If you really think you want to be a lawyer, I would come to TCNJ since it’s cheaper and it’s easier to get your 4.0. However, if you think that you might change your mind about law, there are probably better job prospects coming straight out of Georgetown (although I’m not sure if this is true from the SFS school. I think the SFS school is mostly a feeder into Law School/MPPs/etc). Georgetown is much more well represented at various investment banks (if that’s something you’re looking into).</p>
<p>Side note: Another thing to consider is that Georgetown has a top law school and it likely cuts its graduates a bit more slack in law school admissions.</p>
<p>I’d just like to thank the TCNJ staff for the excellent job at the Accepted Students day. I attended a great presentation on PoliSci by Brian Potter (right?) and now I’m certainly looking forward to going for the double major. It was quite a funny presentation actually, it was almost as cynical as my politics class. I once told my AP Gov teacher the class should be renamed AP Cynicism (it’s a truth). </p>
<p>And for the nth time I was superbly impressed with the Biology department. Apparently they had 1300 applications for 80 spots in the major, which is incredible (and I’m quite humbled to have been admitted). </p>
<p>I’m so looking forward to starting school :)</p>
<p>Dear SJANUSE:</p>
<p>Here are some additional statistics about pre-law at TCNJ:</p>
<p>2008-09: 91% of TCNJ seniors applying to law school were admitted to at least one law school and 88% of those admitted chose to attend law school starting the fall of 2009. (We’re still calculating 2010 data.)</p>
<p>2005-10: Students completing their degrees at TCNJ have been admitted in recent years to (among others) Yale, Harvard, NYU , Rutgers (Camden and Newark), Chicago, Seton Hall, Cardozo, Penn, Fordham and Duke. (We’re still compiling 2011 admissions.)</p>
<p>I hope this is helpful.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>BR</p>