umm, which rutgers should i apply to?

<p>yea, which is best for premed?
i see that there are like a bunch of different colleges and stuff that make up rutgers.
btw, i already applied, but i think i might have chose the wrong college lol</p>

<p>New Brunswick is the main campus. For pre-med, you can major in anything so long as you take the courses that you need for med score.</p>

<p>The New Brunswick campus is on the Amtrak. The station is on the corner of the campus. Actually, Rutgers at New Brunswick is a very interesting campus in that it is broken up into several autonomous campuses connected by shuttle buses. Each campus has its own dorms, fitness center, cafeteria and everything else. You live on one campus and can take classes on any of the others. The campuses are very close together and the shuttle buses work well. This has the advantage of making a large public university campus more user-friendly.</p>

<p>well, i got accepted to livingston college and rutgers college, which one do i go to lol?</p>

<p>sorry to ask this but what's a rutger???</p>

<p>Rutgers is the public university in New Jersey. (It sounds better than naming it the University of New Jersey?)</p>

<p>You hear about Rutgers in old movies in the same context as the ivies. During the 1920's and 1930's, very few people went to college. You had the ivies that were selective mainly in the sense that you had to be from the "correct" and socially-connected family. Rutgers was the public college alternative.</p>

<p>oh so it's like a group or a single name of an university like Yale???</p>

<p>Rutgers is just a state university. Most state universities have separate locations where each location has separate admissions and operations. For example, Univ of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Univ of Illinois-Urbana Champlain, Univ of Massachusetts-Amherst, Univ of Maryland-College Park,...... The main campus is the "flagship" campus, and the hardest to get into.</p>

<p>Rutgers is like that except it is called Rutgers instead of Univ of New Jersey.</p>

<p>oh errrr right (brain explodes :) ) ... and thankyou!</p>

<p>go to rutgers college, its the main campus, and the best one. BTW, its called rutgers because when it was founded, princeton was called the college of new jersey, and rutgers wasn't a university, just a college. "Rutgers" is the name of the donor who provided the original endowment.</p>

<p>jags86: Thanks for the name info. I think UPenn still has a name problem. It was founded by Ben Franklin and since there weren't a lot of colleges, University of Pennsylvania sounded good. Now, I think the man-on-the-street probably thinks that UPenn is a public university. To make it worse, calling it Penn makes it sound like Penn State. Perhaps it would be clearer if UPenn had been named Franklin. I doubt if anyone who goes there is confused, though.</p>