Both my sons assumed they would settle back in NY Metro after college and wanted to experience a different setting for 4 years. I have heard from others, who don’t realize how large Rutgers is, they do not want an “extension of HS” ( meaning go to class w/ same people). With most schools being remote his freshman year, my S20 ended up enrolling at Rutgers.
He loves it there & has no interest in transferring- despite his original intent to do so after pandemic-related restrictions were lifted.
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I find it very interesting, I’m in PA and an hour from Rutgers. Our HS has 600 kids, only 12 applied to Rutgers. 89 applied to Delaware.
I don’t understand why more don’t apply.
I thought I was only one disgusted in everything. I’m so upset I feel just stuck in my anger.
Many from our NJ HS apply to Rutgers, 20+ started in New Brunswick in the fall. I have a daughter at UD, only one other student in her class with her there, and I don’t remember any students going to UD in previous years (but now more are applying). NJ state schools are expensive, many chase merit and go OOS for the same cost.
UDel gave us zero money, I was surprised. Nothing, not a penny.
Our local NJ HS has almost just as many students at U Del as they do at RU-NB in any given year. U Del is smaller than RU (about half the number of undergrads as RU), but still has the big D1 school feel.
U Del has also been a bit easier to get into than RU-NB and often gives OOS students very generous merit packages. NJ doesn’t have an in-state option that matches the size, vibe and atmosphere at U Del. I think it makes sense that some students, with a nice merit package, would pick U Del over RU-NB.
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I don’t know how we didn’t get anything from them. She has good grades, extras… I was shocked when we got letter.
I’m so sorry. This has been a tough year for HS seniors. My kid is one of the OSU EA applicants who as “deferred” on January 25th, 4 days after the date the university’s website states they would release EA decisions. This whole process has been really tough this year.
I went to Rutgers and my son got in for this year and us seriously considering it. We’re OOS. An interesting benefit of RU from my perspective is that each campus in NB is like a smaller residential college, within a 40k plus Big Ten school. So College Ave has less than 5k students living on campus, so it’s like a smaller atmosphere within a huge school, and the same for the other 4 campuses. That could be a nice benefit.
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They gave all of my kids money, even my son who only had a 3.7 uwgpa. My daughter’s friend (2nd in her class) got full tuition. Rutgers gave my kids nothing.
Doesn’t this make sense though? The profiles and rankings are very different. Average stats at Rutgers are more competitive at UD + you said you are instate; it is much easier to discount a higher OOS base ( > 2X Rutgers) than a lower in-state base tuition rate, i.e., even at a 50% discount UD is collecting a 35% premium to Del resident tuition. From my perspective, other than ROI, net cost is what matters for comparison purposes.
I feel like maybe I should contact U of Del and ask what happened. With Rutgers not answering I feel pressure to find some good alternatives.
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I know they use some kind of calculation, I though it was on their website. When my daughter applied merit wax pretty much based on test scores, for the class of 2025 it was supposed to be based on recalculated gpa, not sure if test scores are important again for merit.
Makes perfect sense, most of the OOS schools my daughters applied to gave merit bringing costs close to Rutgers, some higher, some lower. My kids knew that was the only way of going OOS (and 3 chose in state).
I don’t think many of these out of states realize just how shut down we were. No SAT prep classes or tutors, tests being cancelled. It’s not really fair to be test optional and then say not helping you don’t have test scores.
Honors notifications might go out tomorrow evening.
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Very uneventful acceptance here - just an email saying to activate netID, which you only get after being admitted.
My son is part of that crew. Last night I told him about the latest posts that a bunch of “congratulations” letters went out to kids for an honors college there. The kids had been rejected and got the correspondence in error. He shook his head and agreed the deferral answer is not worth waiting for at this point.
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I’m a little envious that you were able to go on the tour with no preconceived notions. We are in NJ and considering Rutgers is such a great school, it gets a bad rap. We did a walking tour over the summer. I started the tour hopeful that my son would at least consider going there… it was AWFUL!!! The tour was supposed to start at 12:30pm, started at 1pm, then it was supposed to be @90 minutes. Well over 2 hours later, there was no end in sight (and it was 85 degrees out). He was accepted but I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to get him back there. Considering we are “the garden state” it’s disappointing that we don’t have a beautiful sprawling campus like many other surrounding state schools. Ironically, more kids from my son’s high school applied to Rowan than Rutgers NB.
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It’s a T25 public university as per USNWR rankings, so you’d think it would get more respect locally 
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