<p>Hey guys I live in the east coast and have no idea how colleges in california and NJ are like. </p>
<p>First of all, are the california state schools quite easy to get in? Like the san fransisco state and san diego state and long beach state ones. The stats from collegeboard looks like theyre extreme safeties for most students on this board, but are they actually good prominent schools? With degrees in those, can u get great jobs?</p>
<p>Another subquestion is, how hard to get in are the rutgers schools? WHat type of admissions like early action, rolling ,etc do they use and how good/hard to get in is rutgers newark and the main campus?</p>
<p>theres no comparison - rutgers is a superior school to all the CSUs. Rutgers is equivalent to a mid level UC - and all the UCs are much better than the CSU.</p>
<p>rutgers has reorganized, so you just apply to rutgers now - not individual schools within rutgers. assuming that you average out all there scores you probably would be an extremely likely candidate with a 3.5 - 3.6 gpa and 1200 SATs.</p>
<p>regardless of the reorganization - you want to be in new brunswick - which is the most college like of the different campuses at rutgers.</p>
<p>First of all i think NJ s location is so great, like the diversity and the fact its so close to big cities. </p>
<p>jags, wait ur sayin that u cant apply to individual schools within rutgers? I thought the new brunswick one was like the stats u mentioned, but if u aplly to like camden or newark its a lot easier.</p>
<p>And with the CSUs, waht is the deal with the minimum selectivity stuff?
Is it so much harder for an out of stater to get in them than in state? And is it true they dont calculate the pluses in or eg. a B plus for gpa considertaion?</p>
<p>Everyone I know has gotten into Rutgers. I don’t know a single person that got rejected- but then again, I don’t know how much they factor state residency in. I go to a public high school in New Jersey and a pretty large percentage of kids in my school go to Rutgers every year.</p>
<p>I think Rutgers is rolling, but I may be wrong. You have to apply online- that’s the sucky part. You could request an application, but that usually takes a while (or so I’ve been told).</p>
<p>Also, Rutgers New Brunswick has a weird kind of campus- again, from what I’ve heard, it’s pretty spread out and you sometimes have to take buses to your classes. That would bother someone like me, but it might be right for you. There’s also Rutgers Camden, which does have a nice campus and nice professors (I’ve visited for school related stuff and met one of their english professors) but the surrounding area is NOT nice at all. It does have an excellent view of Philadelphia though, and I assume it wouldn’t be very hard to get into Philly if you wanted to have some fun.</p>
<p>ui just googled it, someone who goes to rutgers might be able to explain this better,</p>
<p>what i said above was a little off but in general, douglass college (the girls school), the livingston campus, the new brunswick campus, and “university colleges” (i don’t know what those are) are going to all be merged into 1 school known as the school of arts and sciences with the same admissions criteria. cook college will become the school of environmental sciences.</p>
<p>rutgers newark and camden, as far as i can tell, won’t be affected. don’t apply to either of them - they are commuter campuses and are both in horrible areas.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a nice school- definitely go for New Brunswick though because Newark and Camden are horrible horrible areas. Camden was named the most dangerous city in the NATION a year or two back.</p>
<p>Agreed… I live 20 minutes away from Rutgers Camden, but I only know one person who goes there. He says that he has hobos asking him for money as he’s going to get on the train (he commutes).</p>
<p>So yeah- if you’re going to pick Rutgers, pick the New Brunswick campus.</p>
<p>don’t hate on hobos - there are hobos in many college towns. </p>
<p>ive given my fare share of money to the hobos in charlottesville, virginia. however, i never will again ever since one guy turned down the 17 cents i had in my pocket. talk about beggars can’t be choosers…</p>
<p>Cal States are relatively easy to get into, and on the application, they do count pluses and minuses. They are great colleges to get specific training in (i.e. Cal State Northridge has top notch journalism and education departments, among other things), and if you want to go to a UC graduate school, you probably have a better chance graduating from a Cal. State than you do graduating from a UC.</p>
<p>Do you think somebody with 1820 on the SATs, 3.2 GPA, took about 3-4APs and 5 honor classes overall in high school, asian, in a quite competitive public high school in VA, and is from the east coast has a great shot at cal states like long beach, san fransisco, and san diego?</p>
<p>Im just curious, why would you pay essentially private school tuition to go to medicore public schools?</p>
<p>Dont get me wrong, currently I go to CSU-Chico and enjoy it but I honestly dont get why anyone would pay OOS to go to a CSU, with the possible exception of Cal Poly. There a loads of private schools that you could probably get a better education for the price you pay, including many in CA. </p>
<p>With those stats, if you were from CA I would say you are more than qualified for SF State and a medium reach at Long Beach. However, I dont know how much they weigh OOS so I cant give you a good answer.</p>
<p>im considering oos cal state schools because i think long beach, san fransisco, etc are such amazing places to live in and so much diff from boring and uptight places where i live.</p>
<p>does anyone know how much oos is factored for them?</p>
<p>and is long beach that much better than the sf one??</p>
<p>Have you ever even been to any of these places? I live in Southern California and am constantly amazed by people from the East Coast who watch too much television and have a very twisted idea of what California is like.</p>
<p>"No i have never been to san fransisco or long beach.</p>
<p>Im thinkin it looks a lot like mtv and the movies though, beautiful oak trees everywhere, chill ppl, etc"</p>
<p>oh man.
I hope you’re being silly.
Rutgers combined each separate school on the New Brunswick Campus into one large program, but they exist as separate programs. Cook College, Douglass College (now a residential women’s program) Livingston College, Busch College. What this means is that although there are 26k kids, they live, and often study as well, at different places. Picture a box. At the bottom middle is Rutgers College-main buildings, restuarants, frats and all that. To the bottom left is Douglass College, Cook College (agricultural, and yes there are cows there) and also Mason Gross School of the Arts. In the middle of the box is the Raritan River. Just across the river on the right is Livingston Campus-originally a somewhat easier program to enter and on the left of the upper part is the Busch campus-hardcore science types there, and the now holy Football Stadium.
Every ethnic group, income group and political group are there.</p>