<p>Shana Tovah everyone–next year in the college of your hopes!
And may the current peace talks in the middle East bear fruit!</p>
<p>shana tova</p>
<p>and may the inevitable Hamas attempts to disrupt the peace process, stay far away from the Rehavia neighborhood!</p>
<p>Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year to all my CC friends. The college process would not be the same without you!</p>
<p>Folks may be interested in the campusvibe reports just submitted by someone who toured Binghamton, Syracuse, Geneseo and Rochester.</p>
<p>Re Bing, a friend told me her son, a freshman, is enjoying it, but hears the secondary admission to the B school is difficult.</p>
<p>Wishing you all a very happy and healthy new year and may it be filled with sweetness and peace.</p>
<p>Having 14 for dinner tonight. Finished cooking everything last night and set the table. Now for all of the last minute details that seem to take forever!</p>
<p>I was thinking today about the advantage of a school with a large Jewish percentage. My older daughter can’t come home for Rosh Hashana this year, but she and her friends are planning a holiday dinner at their apartment, and she has a choice of services at Hillel. Next weekend, the campus will clear out while kids go home for Yom Kippur. We’ll miss having her here, but I’m happy that she can celebrate at school.</p>
<p>haven’t started cooking yet…looks like we will have the traditional erev rosh hashana pizza.
a sweet new year to everyone, filled with much shared success.</p>
<p>collegefor3: that is so funny. I just said to my husband, let’s have pizza tonight. Tomorrow we go to my SIL, 18 people. I will be doing break the fast, 22 people. Easier, mostly cold items. :)</p>
<p>Yabe: how do you look at campusvibe? Just campusvibe.com?</p>
<p>Yes, Happy, Healthy New Year to you all. </p>
<p>Best wishes for a successful college search for everyone.</p>
<p>Choc, [CampusVibe</a> - Recent College Videos, Photos, and Visit Reports](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/vibe/]CampusVibe”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/vibe/)</p>
<p>Remember to check their archives for older reports</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I just noticied it was on CC. Never went in there before. It’ll be interesting to read other people’s comments. Thanks so much.</p>
<p>Happy New Year everyone!</p>
<p>The Campusvibe reports are a huge help when looking at small schools, as their school-specific cc forums are often empty</p>
<p>And lots of the people who post them are happy to answer questions</p>
<p>Meanwhile, is pizza on erev Rosh Hashonah becoming the equivalent of Chinese food on Christmas?</p>
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<p>when you apply to Binghamton as a freshman, you apply to a specific college – School of Management, College of Community and Public Affairs (only undergrad major there is human development), School of Engineering, School of Nursing, or Harpur College of Arts and Sciences (the catch all for all majors not in the other schools and for those applying as undecided). The Nursing and the Management schools are probably the two hardest to get into as freshmen.<br>
It is possible to transfer from one college to another once you are there – but transferring into the School of Management can be very very difficult. So if you know you want management, you should apply as a freshman. It may decrease the chances of acceptance, but applying to Harpur with the hope of then transferring is very risky and you’d have to be willing to accept the possibility of not being able to transfer.</p>
<p>A minor pet peeve. I guess I do have a bias towards smaller schools because when I am arranging for my son to visit a school - I am willing to either call the school or use a fairly simple on-line form to make a reservation - either method works for me. Now I’m trying to make plans to visit Delaware - and I’m getting aggravated. First - you have to fill out a form with all your basic info and request a U Delaware ID. Then, you have to wait for an e-mail where they give you the ID number and a link to a website to create a PIN. That’s as far as I have gotten. I find this very annoying - I just want to visit - I’m not trying to break into Ft. Knox! I’m so tempted at this moment to say - let’s just skip Delaware.</p>
<p>Rockvillemom: I feel your pain. But I don’t think you should skip Delaware. I think that it has a lot of the same characteristics that your son liked at JMU, but it has more Jewish students. I visited with my daughter and I really liked the campus and the college town setting. She thought it was “too vanilla”, but she prefers noisy cities to grass and trees. My daughter’s friend attends Delaware and really loves it. Their Hillel offers a pre-orientation that provides a great way to meet other Jewish kids.</p>
<p>Delegate the aggravation. Have your son set up the info! 
If he applies to Del, he’ll need the ID anyway.</p>
<p>Pizza for holiday dinner? :eek:</p>
<p>Happy and healthy new year to all of you and your families!</p>
<p>wow, this is still going on!
I daresay there are more posts on this thread than there are Jewish “B” students!
(kidding)</p>
<p>Rockville, my experience and instinct is that a school which is hard to deal with on a visit gets only harder to deal with if you go there, after they have put their best foot forward.</p>
<p>I was shocked by the differences among small northeastern colleges in how they were to deal with before, during and after the visit. </p>
<p>A freshman from our HS, where UDel is very popular, says he is surprised by the number of girls who put on makeup for dinner.</p>
<p>It has good qualities, but if an MD person were accepted at UMCP, unless they really wanted to start anew, the lower cost, bigger sports and close proximity to DC would be compelling to me. </p>
<p>For the sports minded, Penn State and UConn offer much more than UDel, and are equally good schools, but are more rural.</p>
<p>Agree with MomJr. Don’t skip Delaware. It is a nice hybrid of city/green campus.</p>
<p>D will have been at UDel two weeks as of tomorrow (Thursday). She is absolutely loving it. A few comments from my POV:</p>
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<li><p>Freshman Fest (for Jewish freshmen, started two days before official move-in) was an excellent opportunity to meet other Jewish students. Several are on my D’s floor and they remain friends, her closest so far - after two weeks It was also great to move her in early and not deal with the entire freshman class (about 3300) moving in at the same time!</p></li>
<li><p>She has continued to go to Hillel/Jewish events this week - Falafel Festival, Cupcakes with Kesher (the Reform campus group on campus)- and will go to services tomorrow (they have them tonight, but she opted not to go). I told her that’s a good place to check out the cute Jewish guys (wink, wink). She’s planning to go for Yom Kippur too, as well as break fast.</p></li>
<li><p>The sports… so far, so good. First football game was last week and it looks like it was a crazy night. Tons of school spirit. From the pictures, it looks like the stadium was packed. It’s a big deal on campus. My D said she was screaming the entire time and had a blast. It’s not Penn State football or UConn basketball (as if you could get a ticket to that), but it definitely offers the school spirit that so many want. </p></li>
<li><p>Transportation is easy! I thought D would be taking Amtrak home to LI for breaks, but there are several bus situations - to LI, NY, Maryland - that offer lower cost and even more convenient rides home (there are links on a thread called Bus Service on the UD board here). Philadelphia airport is also pretty easy to get to (bus service).</p></li>
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<p>I will keep you posted as I learn more… but so far, everything is going well.</p>
<p>Hope everyone here has a happy and health new year!</p>