<p>Damn, LUCKY! I still didn't get anything :/</p>
<p>btw Phoenix, how'd they send the acceptance letter? was it in a big packet or like a small envelope?</p>
<p>also, what part of Jersey are you in so I can get a reference :O</p>
<p>I got my letter today. I wasn't accepted but I was a Finalist (Public Issues). I was just wondering if any of you would know how much weight Finalist would hold (on an application). do you know how many cuts they make? (like if there are quarterfinalists, semifinalists, finalists)?</p>
<p>QuarantineC:</p>
<p>No idea. My parents told me yesterday on the phone, so I have yet to see the letter my self. (I board at my school). I live in Middlesex County. My school is in Mercer.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville much? :P</p>
<p>I got a letter saying I was waitlisted April 10th.</p>
<p>*PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL IN ORDER TO CONFIRM THAT IT WAS RECEIVED. PLEASE TYPE YOUR NAME, YOUR ART DIVISION, AND “RECEIVED.”</p>
<p>Dear Governor’s School of the Arts Applicant:
Thank you for your application to the New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts at The College of New Jersey. Although we are not able to offer you a place in the 2008 program, we can offer you a place on our wait list. Our inability to admit you merely reflects the fact that we have a limited number of spaces for a large pool of applicants who are truly outstanding. We are very favorably impressed with your talent and we would very much like to have you attend if an opening becomes available.</p>
<p>Accepted scholars are required to accept their place by April 18, 2008. We will begin to look at the wait list in early May, although occasionally a scholar drops out closer to the start of the program. In recent years the number of openings has been quite varied, sometimes only one or two, sometimes several. If you are interested in keeping your name on the wait list, please reply to this email and tell us to keep you name on this list, in addition to the information that is requested above (your name, your art division, and “received”).</p>
<p>Please accept my congratulations on you fine artistic accomplishments and my best wishes for your success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
William Trigg, Director*</p>
<p>THEN I RECEIVED THIS TODAY!</p>
<p>*Dear Governor’s School of the Arts Finalist:</p>
<p>The College of New Jersey has decided to offer a supplemental program to replace the three weeks that were removed from the Governor’s School of the Arts when the budget was reduced. The cost will be $1,500 plus $1,000 for room and board. The room and board is optional if you would prefer to commute to and from The College of New Jersey campus. The program will run from Monday, July 7, 2008 through Saturday, July 26, 2008, with the same format as the regular Governor’s School of the Arts program.</p>
<p>Please note that your intent or lack of intent for this supplemental program will not in any way affect your wait list status for the regular nine day program which will run from June 28 – July 6, 2008, at no cost to any scholar. It is entirely possible to be accepted to the supplemental program only, if a scholar is only available for the 9 day program.</p>
<p>Please reply to this email as soon as possible, but no later than April 18, to let us know if you are or are not interested in attending this three week supplemental program. If there is sufficient interest, we will then send you further information and enrollment forms. Thank you.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
William Trigg, Director
New Jersey Governor's School of the Arts*</p>
<p>Interesting, no?
I'm obviously interested.
But I got all of my information through email.</p>
<p>(:</p>
<p>Still nothing from gov school :X</p>
<p>which school did you apply to?</p>
<p>School on the environmental. At this point I'm hoping it's just delayed postage or something. Keeping calling their office but to no avail :/</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>anyone else get into sciences?</p>
<p>PKswmr76- let's start a separate thread :)</p>
<p>gotjjs - "It is entirely possible to be accepted to the supplemental program only, if a scholar is only available for the 9 day program." </p>
<p>Why would one apply to the supplemental program if they were only available for the nine day program? This doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>I got in International Study too. Where do we send the reply letter to?</p>
<p>i'm in for environmental studies! :]</p>
<p>rejected from envrioment schooll......not that it matters anymore because I moved to CT last Feb, right before I applied to NJ gov school on the envrionment. So even i got in, i wouldn't be able to go.
but hey, i got into something better. I'm going to do a research project under a professor this summer at an university!</p>
<p>Part of article today in the newspaper:</p>
<p>Governor's Schools to be scaled back
by John Mooney/The Star-Ledger
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 8:48 PM
After two years of dodging serious budget cuts, the Governor's Schools will be scaled back drastically this summer due to a shortfall in needed funds, officials said. </p>
<p>The residential program for gifted teens, which at its peak served 600 students in six different month-long schools, will be reduced this summer to fewer than 400 students in schools lasting between one and three weeks each. </p>
<p>Supporters and officials in the 20-year-old program are still hoping for a late infusion of money -- possibly from the state -- to help them at least accept more students. </p>
<p>"But I can't ask the schools to sign contracts and accept kids with money we just don't have," said Jane Oates, chairman of the Governor's Schools board of overseers and director of the state's Commission on Higher Education. </p>
<p>The funding of the Governor's Schools -- one of nearly two dozen across the country -- has been in turmoil since 2006, when Gov. Jon Corzine cut nearly $2 million in funding because of the state's escalating fiscal crisis. </p>
<p>The initial cut -- essentially gutting its entire budget -- brought an outcry from supporters and alumni of the schools, which are located on different college campuses and focus on fields of study like arts, engineering and international studies. </p>
<p>Students are typically nominated by their high schools to attend, and are chosen through a lengthy application process. There is no cost to the students or their families. </p>
<p>With Corzine's help, a high-profile fundraising drive was launched that spring and raised the necessary funds for that summer's classes to proceed. Corzine's private foundation contributed $200,000, and five- and six-figure gifts came in from some of the state's largest corporations and non-profits. Leftover funds and some further fundraising helped the program survive largely intact last summer as well. </p>
<p>But while there have been new donations from corporate giants like New Jersey Resources, Prudential and Schering-Plough, many other initial funders, including Corzine, have yet to come forward this year, and an alumni drive has yielded little. A tuition system was considered, but discarded amid worries it would leave out too many students.</p>
<p>So with about $500,000 in hand, a decision was made to provide each school a third of its usual funding and let them each devise how to provide for the students. </p>
<p>For instance, the Governor's School of the Arts at the College of New Jersey will serve the full complement of 100 students but run only a week. The School of the Environment at Stockton College will have 49 students for two weeks. The School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers will be for three weeks, but for just 42 students. </p>
<p>Laura Bilodeau Overdeck has been among the program's top benefactors, giving $200,000 in the first year and committing the same amount this year. An alumna of the School of Science at Drew University and now vice chair of its board, Overdeck said she continues to pin her hopes on the state coming through with additional money. </p>
<p>The Legislature last year added $100,000 to the final state budget, and the same amount is in the budget proposal for this summer. But Overdeck said New Jersey's program is still the only one of 21 across the country where public funds pay less than half of the operating costs. </p>
<p>"Even Louisiana -- let's face it, not a wealthy state -- does more than we do," she said. "Why can't we even keep up with them?" </p>
<p>Read the full story in Wednesday's Star-Ledger.</p>
<p>I didn't understand that sentence either so when I emailed them, they emailed me back this message:</p>
<p>What that sentence means is that if some scholars decide not to attend the supplemental program we will invite alternates to come to just that portion of the month.</p>
<p>I still don't really understand.. but I think they miswrote that sentence. :/</p>
<p>-Jenny</p>
<p>Alright. Now THIS frustrates me.
It seems like they're not organized at all.</p>
<p>-Jenny</p>
<p>Are the other governor's schools just as good as the new jersey one?</p>
<p>^Does your state offer governor's school? If so, then probably yes.</p>