CONGRATS to everyone who got in!!! What’s everyone’s major going to be?
How do you find out the login or Paws account
Admissions would have sent you a letter when your application was complete with your PAWS login info. Good luck!
Oh - and to answer jerseygirl188’s question, I’ll be studying journalism and professional writing, and I’m from Princeton Junction.
Did anyone get scholarship information with their admissions letters?
Yes. Our kid got $5000 for four years
We are happy with that. Maximum merit aid there is $6000.
Do you know when they send the merit info?
@njdadjets Is it $5,000 a year for 4 years (20,000) or some other configuration? how did you hear their max aid was 6K?
Maximum merit scholarship for instate residents according to the TCNJ website and confirmed by admissions office is $6000 per year. We received $5000 a year renewable for each year ($20000 total) with min 3.0 gpa
His scholarship was specified in his admissions letter
Thanks @njdadjets !
I am surprised by the low GPA required to maintain that aid.
I’m also surprised that the maximum merit is $6,000.
So far Rowan has given out as much as $16,000 a year (so $64,000) to an applicant in the 2018 high school class (that I’ve heard of). Quite a savings by comparison to the max from TCNJ for similar Cost of Attendance (COA).
His/our decision came down to TCNJ, Rowan, Binghamton and considered everything from cost/limiting debt to quality of program, to quality of campus (ease of navigating campus, quality of dorms, being able to walk everywhere etc). Our son has the stats to compete for admission at many expensive private schools. He liked the TCNJ campus the best of the three. Rowan engineering and it’s new facilities were extremely impressive but the overall reputation of the school has a ways to go yet. We really liked Binghamton but even with the 10k merit it was still more expensive than TCNJ will be. He was accepted to Rowan first in November. Tcnj and Binghamton decisions both came December 1. He was set on TCNJ and therefore decided to apply binding early decision. In the end, the substantial merit aid he received from Rowan and Binghamton would not have changed his desire to go to TCNJ and there were no regrets withdrawing the apps to the other schools. TCNJ with a 5k merit discount is a tremendous deal
Why are you surprised by the amount of aid and the min gpa? It’s set forth clearly on their website at https://admissions.tcnj.edu/resources-for/instatescholarships/ Tcnj doesn’t have the infusion of cash that Rowan has
Rowan is definitely up and coming. I understand There is also a push to invest and further elevate TCNJ nationally. The reason as I understand it is Rutgers disaster of a campus in comparison. And to be honest, Rutgers campus in New Brunswick was a huge turnoff when we visited. All those stories about the busing situation that we read seemed true to us.
Are the TCNJ and Rowan gpa requirements to keep the scholarships the same? I thought they were both 3.0 but I could be wrong.
I know the TCNJ website says $6000 max for merit but I was rather sure an admission rep said $8000 when we visited in December. I could have mis-heard, though, since there was activity around.
You are correct @MACmiracle - it is also 3.0 at Rowan. For some reason I had it as 3.5 in my mind, but I was wrong.
@njdadjets I am surprised because as an alum of TCNJ I know they had a 40 million fundraising campaign to fund scholarships that was very successful over the last 18 months or so.
I thought that the campaign results would have increased the amount of merit aid being offered and hold off loss of top quality students to Rowan. Rowan is offering such significant merit aid I have to think TCNJ is losing students to Rowan. With the new business and engineering buildings, and the new dorms on Rowan’s campus, not to mention the new medical school, Rowan is going to be a significant competitor to TCNJ for the best students.
@macmiracle I think you may be right about $8000 merit scholarship. If you look at the post for RD 2017, someone posted that they received $8000.
@toast18 Not to be greedy, but it would be very nice if it moved up to $8,000 and D got something. She has mixed feelings about Rowan due to the size. It would be nice to have a smaller affordable option. I know it won’t get close to Rowan in price, though.
@MACmiracle That’s exactly how I feel. I just would love S to have a real choice of schools. He absolutely loved both Rowan and TCNJ, he’d be happy at either. Those Rowan scholarships are going to be hard to turn down though! I think your D would feel ok about the size at Rowan if she’s in Honors College, I get the feeling it’s a close knit group with a real sense of community.