<p>I'm having trouble committing to Rutgers Pharm because I'm a bit wary of the size of Rutgers. Is it ever overwhelming being 1/40,000 undergrad students? Do you feel that profs don't care about you? Just how inconvenient are the buses? Is it hard to make friends? Is the bureaucracy as bad as people make it out to be? How is the food?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I went to the pharmacy school! (but it was 20ish years ago). Pharmacy was good because the class was about 150? students or so. Some will drop out. But you take all your pharmacy classes with these same people (aside from the initial, big lecture hall classes). So you will get familiar with your fellow pharmacy students. </p>
<p>The buses are a pain, but if you live on Busch it’s easy because most all your classes are walkable. </p>
<p>Not hard to make friends because other pharmacy students are all suffering so you kind of bond. </p>
<p>I thought the professors did care about us. They would re-schedule tests if we had too many big ones too close together. Not sure if they still do that?</p>
<p>Food: subjective, but my son is at Rutgers now and he says the food is decent (except for College Ave, don’t eat there). </p>
<p>Bureaucracy: yeah, well, it’s a huge school. If you don’t have any major problems, it’s really not bad, but you are one of many, many students, so at times, you will feel like just a number. Just no getting around that. On the plus side, you will become proficient on following up on things and navigating through departments. Sometimes you will lose, and sometimes you will win. Just remember you are only there for a few years so there is an end in sight! </p>
<p>and the price is right.</p>
<p>In my experience, Rutgers professors care a lot about their students. That is what I’ve been most pleased with in terms of my education here, the personal connections I have made to faculty members. They have served as my mentors and spent hours each week with me at office hours. They are approachable, down to earth, and brilliant. I literally cannot speak highly enough of the people that come to teach at Rutgers. Think about it though; for top researchers with their PhDs, there is no greater place to be than in the NYC region. This is what attracts great professors to Rutgers.</p>
<p>I can’t answer too much about Rutgers Pharm as I’m not in the program. I have many friends that are in it however and it is a hard program (but I’m sure you know Pharmacy in general is a hard major, and Rutgers is great for Pharmacy).</p>
<p>However, I can help you with the general questions about size, people, campus, etc:</p>
<p>I just finished my freshmen year at Rutgers a few weeks ago, and I had a great time. It’s really all about what you make of your experience. I guess naturally, Rutgers was a good choice for me because I literally crave a university with a lot of undergrad students. I like the feeling of being “1 in 40,000”. It’s weird right? It helped me focus more on my studies and ambitions because I didn’t want to be just a number, I wanted to stand out from 40000 students. Also honestly doesn’t seem that big anymore as you get adjusted. The school is I must admit, sometimes it gets a little rough and lonely as you’ll notice the majority people you’ll meet will come and go. All freshmens want to meet and greet as much people as you can, but you’ll soon established stable friends that you can trust if you put in the effort of meeting people.</p>
<p>Sometimes it gets boring in New Brusnwick, especially once you get a little adjusted to the party scene, but hopefully you’ll make good friends in your dorm and places to keep you company. It really is what you make of it! There’s definitely ******bag people, but a lot of nice people too.</p>