<p>Not sure if all high schools do this or not... my high school released a class of 2014 report. It shows every college applied to.. how many were accepted by each school and how many ultimately attend each school. Traditionally UD numbers for our school run as follows... 65 applied 25 accepted 3-5 attend. </p>
<p>The class of 14's numbers were as follows. 75 applied 57 accepted 17 attending! Huge number... only schools that have more are Rutgers with 25 students, Penn State with 20 and our local community college. School is regularly in the top 25 in the State of public schools and is very competitive but still.. huge spike in acceptances and kids choosing UD. </p>
<p>Has anyone else seen their school reports? I'm curious what the trends at other schools were this year? </p>
<p>I have not seen a breakout like that for the school districts near me in Delaware. Delaware does not have a wide number of choices for higher learning and I would bet UofD and the community college are an even split. Low income students can basically get a free Associates degree from the community college and then roll into UofD.</p>
<p>With the cheap oos tuition at UD I would think the numbers would have been higher other years. Though I can see how Penn State would be a better choice for certain majors. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t put 43K as a cheap option in tuituion… it certainly beats the 57K a year schools but being charged double of what the in state pay is still quite a hike. At the NJ schools the breakdown is far less equitible and we barely get a 25% discount. I think Rutgers was close to 29K this year in state… and you wanna talk about bad housing… lol</p>
<p>I meant compared to the other oos schools for NJ students… like Penn State. Camden is definitely a life experience, though Rutgers is a great school. I had a contract with Cooper hospital and that was fun. </p>
<p>Penn state is currently $47k a year for OOS and $34K in State. no such thing as a free lunch these days…</p>
<p>I live 10 minute ride from Rugters… My husband is an alum. Excellent school nice big football program but less than ideal campus layout… 4 individual locations in New Brunswick/Piscataway that you must be bussed to travel between. Great school academics but out dated dorms and no central campus feel. My kids were warned, if they don’t keep up at UD they are going to Rutgers… Newark and Camden campus are a whole other story. However if either of my kids chose to follow their parents into the medical field I would have insisted they suck it up and stay local to save a few bucks especially with the merge between UMDNJ and Rugters. </p>
<p>If you look at any of the major schools in cities you will find the campus are overrun by urban blight. Especially in the Northeast. </p>
<p>I don’t put UD on the same level as Rutgers. UD has some outstanding programs, but they also have let some really diminish. The low academic standards for in-state admissions does not help UD. When I read they accept 88% of in state I had to really wonder how bad the 12% who were denied. I know a few of my daughter’s friends who got in with very poor academics and SAT’s. ( the acceptance was conditional on her retaking the SAT’s and getting a better score… and they didn’t set a high bar for her retake ).</p>
<p>Just for point of clarification UD accepts only 65% of Delaware applicants to its 4 year program in Newark (a figure comparative to the percentage of in-state NJ residents accepted to Rutgers-NB). UD does accept about 25% of Delaware applicants to its Associate of Arts Programs (essentially community colleges) in Dover, Wilmington, and Georgetown. Besides personal opinion UD and Rutgers-NB are felt to be academically at a similar level by ranking organizations such as USN&WR, Forbes, and Money, with Rutgers being ranked higher in certain areas and UD ranked higher in others. The bottom line here is that both schools offer excellent academics, are both identified by most ranking organizations as “Public Ivies”, are both national Research Universities, and you really can get a quality education at either of them if you apply yourself. You also need to keep in mind that Rutgers-NB has about 39,000 undergrads with 86% being NJ residents. UD, on the other hand, has about 17,000 undergrads with 2/3rds of the student population being from OOS. If you compare standardized test scores, GPA, and Class rank you will see that the admitted students profiles at both schools are not significantly different from one another. Based upon my past experiences as a Rutgers-NB Faculty member I can assure you that, unfortunately, there are a number of NJ students at Rutgers-NB who really don’t belong there. I would be surprised if the percentage is any less than at UD for Delaware residents. However, I do believe that there are a number of non-academic differences between the two schools which I don’t have time to delineate here now. Cost being aside, IMHO a student probably would do best in the university where they feel they best “fit-in”. For some this might be Rutgers-NB, for others UD. In fact some of the highest academic achievers at UD are from NJ (looking at dean’s list rates). </p>
<p>Re: UD’s academic reputation. This is anecdotal but worth mentioning. At a recent social event, I met the brother of one of my college friends. He has his PhD in Biomedical Engineering and talked to me at great length about the stellar reputation of UD in regards to engineering and research. He even rattled off a bunch of faculty names and how impressed he was that they chose to work at UD.</p>
<p>As far as high school acceptance levels, UD is not a popular school in central PA. Even with generous merit scholarships, UD is more expensive than the state universities. My daughter was the only one from her high school class of 2012 to attend but two top-10 students from the class of 2013 also picked UD. I’ll have to check with my son to see if any of his 2014 classmates chose UD.</p>