<p>Thanks for your feedbakc. We are lucky to have 2 great options that are not far away.</p>
<p>You have perspective, djsmom, and you can make fun of yourself. Both traits will serve you well for the coming year! These boards are a good place to vent the stuff we know better than to say to our kids. (I HATED that our S chose to go so far away…but I didn’t burden him with that. Instead, my friends had to hear it over and over…)</p>
<p>As others have already indicated, you’re likely to be in for a few more switcheroos and u-turns and other surprises between now and May 1, 2008.</p>
<p>My only piece of advice for you: try hard to not fall in love with one school. That’s his job! (One hopes that the falling in love comes after acceptances arrive.)</p>
<p>Boy, this kid sounds familiar! 
Hang in there. You DO have time and he will flip flop a few more times.</p>
<p>It’s still Trenton State to me.</p>
<p>tsdad, I never saw TCNJ when it was Trenton State, but it is very nice, and competitive to get into from many public high schools in NJ. I did not find the area to be that wonderful, but the school itself was impressive to me.</p>
<p>These schools are many of the schools that my D will apply to, also. Monmouth is gorgeous, and I have heard varying things about it. I know two people who went there who both loved it. I have also known several people who felt it was ‘the 13th grade’. TCNJ is wonderful. It is getting very very hard to get into now. Each year it seems that the bar is raised a little more. Many of the highest scoring kids in my D’s hs didn’t get in this year. We haven’t visited Rowan yet, but it offers a nice film program, if that’s what she decides to do. I think much of my D’s decision will be affected by what she finally settles on…she has gone from wanting to be a plastic surgeon to a car salesman to a singer to a trophy wife (!!!) to a film maker to a high school chemistry teacher. Who the heck knows what she’ll finally land on, lol! Too bad many schools want to know what major these kids want when they apply. That’s hard for kids like my D to know at this age.</p>
<p>tanya, Same here. Last year only one person from our hs got into TCNJ. I don’t know how many this year. My son might be interested in film, and I did not realize that Rowan had a good program for that. Could I ask you send a PM to me to fill me in on some info regarding this, if you have any? I have a 9th grader who is toying with the idea of various areas of film, communications, as well as teaching. Rowan might be a school to explore further. It was not the right fit from my older kid. BTW, I have heard similar ideas about Monmouth being the 13 year of hs. I happened to really like what we saw when we visited, but did not care for housing options.</p>
<p>We visted Rowan and liked it. It is a pretty campus with lots of new buildings and growth going on. Students were friendly. It is easy to get into Phila from the campus, but there is not much else in the area besides the campus. Still it did seem like there were plenty of things happening on campus. It is a bit more competitve than Monmouth</p>