<p>why ru why not umd or pennstate? even if you do not go there tell me why? dont wary i won't judge:0</p>
<p>i mean :)…</p>
<p>depends on the major; RU is better in the sciences; for example. It also has a significant business and arts community. RU is a tad smaller than Penn, I believe, and it’s instate (if you’re instate).</p>
<p>That’s easy. It’s all about money. I’m a NJ resident so Penn State would much more expensive. I’ve also always had a thing for Rutgers owing hometowniness. The house my parents lived in when I was first born was in Highland Park just across the Albany Street Bridge within walking distance of the campus and I had piano recitals at the music center on Douglass as a kid. In high school, things seemed to gravitate there once people started driving and I was 16 when I first had a Fat sandwich. I used to be in a band that practiced in at a space in New Brunswick and I remember driving on Route 18 before there was any construction. It was terrible. Now, it’s nothing like it was. When you read reviews of Rutgers that call it a slum campus, that’s not entirely accurate. Some of those review are old. Even reviews from 2004 are not quite right; a lot has changed in six years! There used to be housing projects all along the river by Route 18 so I can understand how you would feel if you went to Rutgers during that time. Rutgers has, a word I saw in some sort of academic review of college socializing, a sort of earthy social fabric. Sure, other schools may have nicer this or that, but those schools aren’t Rutgers. Circumstances breed tradition. The easiest example of that I can think of is how living in a crappy dorm can bring you closer with your dorm-mates. Look at the grease trucks. I’d say that’s a pretty organic tradition and that’s what it’s all about.</p>
<p>cool … :)</p>