@jennmom13 Congratulations to your daughter! Sounds like responding to the optional essay request from TCNJ is important!
My D was accepted 2/5. She didn’t get an email about an extra question, but she did submit an optional resume and answered the optional Quest to Know You when she applied.
@northjerseymama What major? I think it was for the most competitive majors.
@jdcollegedad Yup! Just as you said. She is happy! Thanks
@jdcollegedad Sounds right. My D is “Undeclared Humanities & Social Sciences.” I was just mentioning it as a factor that may have helped her get accepted since people are trying to guess if they will be accepted 
Does anyone know when Honors notifications will be sent?
@dfrash158 I heard around the first week of April
My son swears he never got info on a portal for TCNJ. I don’t have access to his email but after reading this thread I am going to ask his to check his emails again, maybe it got caught in Junk mail. He only applied December 16 but it has moved toward the top of the list. I wonder if colleges know if you have logged in to your portal, and if they consider that as showing a level of interest?
Yes, TCNJ said it can see everything from their side of the house - when a student opens, closes, etc.
I think the same thing. My daughter was accepted, we just went down again last week. The campus and area seem very quiet.
Fairfield is a private school.
@marycate Was quiet a good thing or a bad thing? Just curious what you thought. I was annoyed hearing some kids already were invited to accepted student days or shadow experiences when all we heard about was the April 6th open house.
“Quiet”- in the sense I worry she won’t have enough to do on the weekends, and might be bored. She’s not an athlete, not a partier, not interested in sororities. She’s kind of artsy, a writer, will be English major and loves animals. We visited last week on Feb 18. She liked it then. Many of her teachers went to TCNJ. She has friends at Rutgers and while I know it is HUGE socially I’m wondering if it is a better fit. Also, accepted to Binghamton with merit.
Oh and yes, their events info is confusing.
@marycate I have the same concerns about my son being bored since he’s not a big partier. But he likes the academics at TCNJ and proximity to opportunities in his major–history. He’s outdoorsy and has also been accepted to Bing with merit and while I think it’s in the middle of nowhere, he might like that.
@marycate If it’s any help, my DD wasn’t an athlete or partier and never interested in sororities, and she had a great 4 years at TCNJ (graduated in 2017). The only time she came home often was the very first semester, but that was due to special circumstances (family bar mitzvah, beloved pet dying and wanting so say goodbye, etc). Aside from that time period, she didn’t come home much during her 4 years there.
10pm tonight my son got his notice that he’s accepted as a chem major with $8k annual. Now we can move on to decison time.
Accepted…Last night I received an Email from TCNJ Admissions saying to check application update. A link to the update said Congrats! I’m a Electrical Computer Engineering major, with 1370 SAT, and 3.9 gpa. I’m thrilled.
No financial aid information was provided in the email or other attachments. I’ll wait for the snail mail to deliver that news.
@realgoodkid Congrats!!
Son’s TCNJ email WAS in junk mail, but the very day I posted here he got his acceptance snail mail, and on portal found $20K over 4 years merit. Still waiting on Stevens and NYU and could only go to either if they gave him A LOT of $! Comparing TCNJ to other options NJIT and Stony Brook would cost less, Drexel just slightly more after merit $. I see several people saying their kids are artistic (my son is a musician) and not partiers/very social and that is true of my son too. He was hoping to be in a city atmosphere but being “a mom” I feel TCNJ is safer than Hoboken, NYC, Newark, Philadelphia. Anyone else going to April 6 accepted student’s day? We plan to but don’t see anywhere to register for it.