It was sent as an email. I have not seen it in the portal yet.
Thank you for the information and best of luck to your son! I suspect mine will stay where he is, too, but this has made things interesting.
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Is the Temple security page “public” or “private.”?
the temple university police association is public. they have a twitter too
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They are on Instagram too. They aren’t the biggest fans of the Temple Police. Different organization.
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He didn’t get an email either. Since we are OOS, I think that $19,000/year is pretty generous. I would have been really surprised if they had tacked anything else on!
My son did seriously consider Temple, but ended up committing to our state flagship. Even with the generous merit offer from Temple, the COA is significantly lower and he will be able to graduate without any debt.
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My daughter got an email a few days ago (just saw it this morning, it was in spam)… Tyler admissions asking her what her plans were. She said she needed more time! We don’t have much more time!
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Just bumping my offer as we come up on decision day as a parent of a current Temple honors CS major and a recently graduated Temple honors EE major (also an athlete); if anyone has any last minute questions, please feel free to PM me. Both my Ds have loved their Temple experience. Older D loved Philly so much she got a job in center city Philly after graduation so she could stay there and lives about 10 minutes from campus (we’re OOS – about 6 hours away). I have an S23 graduating from HS next year and would be completely OK if he chose Temple.
We visit a couple times a semester and always stay at the hotel right on campus, so I’ve also spent many, many nights on campus personally the last 6 years. We park our car overnight on campus when we stay. We walk to restaurants near campus. We take the subway to center city when we visit. We were there a couple of weeks ago and went to the Philly Comicon-like expo at the convention center near city hall and saw both William Shatner and David Tennant (former Dr. Who) speak. It was cool – just one of the cool things a big city offers, and it was a 10 minute subway ride from campus. The subway had lots of students going to the convention center in cosplay outfits, which was also fun to see.
Yes, the North Philly neighborhoods several blocks from Temple have a serious poverty issue and all of the big city issues that go with that. No place is perfectly safe, but I’m never worried for my personal safety when I visit.
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For parents of students that have made the decision to attend Temple and are going to be living in the 1300 dorm (which houses all honors freshman plus some general freshman), there is a Facebook Group “Temple Parents of 1300 Residence Hall” you can join and ask questions about room size, configuration or other types of housing questions.
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Just FYI - Temple had yet another shooting right on campus yesterday. Video is everywhere. Students were taking video out of their dorm windows.
Again, Temple offers lots of money for a reason. This is not a normal college experience. People will tell you violence is everywhere, on every college campus in a city - it doesn’t compare.
Muggings, beat downs for fun, threats with knives - all within the last 10 days.
My niece just graduated and thankfully her only incident was getting her phone plucked from her hand.
Not much better but they are saying that it was near the campus rather than on the campus.
No safety advisory on the Temple Police Association Instagram page for this. They were posting everything before. That is worrying. Also, parents cannot get crime alerts from Temple Police. So very little information for parents on the state of things around campus. We are leaning elsewhere now.
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I have a daughter at Temple who loves it. I do worry but have told her to always travel with someone. My friend also provided her with some pepper spray that she keeps with her. I started following on Twitter a local reporter to get the latest on what is going on. This particular incident is technically off campus although it is right behind the off-campus apartments that many students live in. I went to Fordham in the early 90s and it was a similar situation there. I would make sure she comfortable with this.
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We really liked Temple for a range of reasons, primarily the art program is highly impressive–the library too. While the safety issues gave us pause, they were not a deal breaker. Ultimately, my daughter decided she wanted to be closer to home–within a few hours vs 8 hours away–and just didn’t feel ready for such a big transition. She decided to go to her other top choice–UMass Amherst–where her best friend also committed and she knows a bunch of other kids from this area at the 5 colleges.
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Thanks for that. I think we were ok with it (and she was too) when the area was just ‘sketchy’ but with the ramp up in violence so close to campus we realized it may affect her enjoyment outside of class (getting back and forth to the city etc). She has had two schools that have been pretty even throughout so I think has finally decided on the other one. A more traditional college experience plus a great art school. Looking like VCUarts for her!
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My son spent the weekend thinking about the addition money Temple offered but decided to stay with the school he had already committed to. Having his actual major was more important than all the reasons he liked Temple. The other school is in a major city, as well. It also has a high crime rate, but the area of town where his classes will be is not nearly as crime ridden as North Philly.
Best of luck to all who decided to attend Temple!
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Just wondering if your son declined the offer on the Temple portal. My son is the same situation and we want the school to know that the merit money he got is available for another candidate. I’m assuming that’s preferable to just not accepting admittance. Unfortunately we cannot seem to find the “decline” option that we’ve seen on other school portals. I feel like we’re missing something, which would not be surprising given the Spring Semester brain he has (and if I’m being honest his parents both have).
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No, we never found a “decline” button, either. I hope they will use the money wisely.
Has anyone found the location to decline the offer of admittance? I know not paying the deposit will probably cover it, but I did want to officially decline vs blowing them off.
Nope, never did. If they have one, it is not apparent.
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We have never found it either. My daughter applied 4 years ago, and my son applied in this most recent admissions
cycle. We have continued to look for a way to decline, as it would seem that Temple would want to know. Guess not, though!
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