<p>As of now, Rutgers is my favorite school. I'll probably visit in the summer, because I'm visiting cmu and lehigh in April (I'll ask my mom if we can swing by nj). I just have a few questions.
1. Anyone who attends now, what do you like about it?
2. What do you dislike?
3. Which is the best campus? I like the New Brunswick one.
4. How are they with FA/scholarships? I'm OOS.
5. How is the computer science department?
6. How's the surrounding area?
Anything else you'd like to add, that would be great! Thank you for your time, and you don't have to answer all!
Oh and one more question... It's not really specific to Rutgers..
7. Why is the computer science department in the engineering school? Some schools like Carnegie Mellon have a separate computer science college, or it's in a CAS. I have to pay extra money even though I'm not majoring in engineering.
8. How does the Honors Program work? To my understating, it's only at Camden??? I'm confused about Honors Programs at colleges in general.
Thanks again!</p>
<p>Here are the answers to your questions in no particular order.</p>
<p>7.) Computer Science is <em>NOT</em> in the engineering school at Rutgers, it is in the School of Arts and Science. Computer <em>Engineering</em> is in the engineering school, but unless you’re into EE that’s not what you’re looking for.</p>
<p>8.) There is an honors program in every school, every campus at Rutgers. They each have different requirements to get in, so getting into one does not guarantee acceptance into another. For example, your scores might have been good enough for the Rutgers Camden honors program, but not NB. They ask you, you don’t ask them.</p>
<p>1.) I like the fact that anything you want to do, they have here. Any club you imagine, any type of food you like to eat, any type of research you want to get involved in, it’s all here. There’s also great diversity in the student population. Also, as an engineering student, I appreciate the fact that I’ve never had a TA teach a course. (Which is common at a lot of other schools.)</p>
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<li><p>The housing lottery is horrible. Also, snow day response is not the best. Teachers are a mixed bag, but that’s the same at any research university. (You’ll see it at CMU and Lehigh as well.)</p></li>
<li><p>Um, when we talk about campuses here (on New Brunswick) we tend to forget that Newark and Camden exit. Campuses refer to College Ave., Busch, Livingston and Cook/Douglass and each of them has a very different feel. College Ave. is the party/restaurant/liberal arts campus, Busch is the engineering/pharmacy/sciences campus where everyone works hard, Livingston is the business/freshman campus, Cook is the performing arts/nutrition/animal science/environmental science/political science/anything green campus and Douglass is the women’s college. (Cook and Douglass are at the same general location.) As comp. sci. most of your courses will be on Busch, but you can take electives/general classes on any of them and you could end up living on any (or all) of them. </p></li>
<li><p>Don’t know, instate.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t know, I’m in engineering.</p></li>
<li><p>Surrounding area varies by campus. College Ave. has a definite city atmosphere, Livingston’s is surrounded by a preserved area so there’s nothing there, Cook/Douglass is very green with lots of trees and grass and huge lawns (think your average suburban campus) and Busch is just dominated by academic buildings.</p></li>
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<p>Out of curiosity, why aren’t you looking in to your own state school?</p>
<p>Really? I looked on the website and they said computer science is in the engineering school… I mustve read it wrong.
Um, I don’t like the schools in my state, except for Yale. I like the city feel of the colleges im looking into (except RPI which is desolate and I think lehigh is more landscapy) I’m from rural areas / the suburbs, I want something different.
Thanks for answering my questions, it means a lot!</p>