Philadelphia area colleges, choose two from these three

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I’m curious how Jefferson is well known when that name is only a year or two old? Arcadia is a wonderful little school and I would imagine that name recognition is not nearly as important as skills or portfolio.

Just make sure you are comparing apples to apples. The experience at PSU Abington would be nothing like Arcadia or Jefferson or Temple as it is mainly a commuter school, despite all the new dorms

We ended up taking Jefferson off the list…I’m sad; I really liked a lot of things about it but it’s ranked so low and yet so expensive it didn’t really make sense. We put Seton Hall on as a replacement, as they are famous for giving TONS of MERIT aid money and flying in and an out of Newark would be a piece of cake. My d is not a NYC fan but the idea of slowly easing into it from a suburb seemed good to her.

We are talking about putting Fordham on the list, it’s very expensive and a bit of a reach. However we have family in upper manhattan as well as Long Island so we are reaching out to see what they think about the Bronx campus of Fordham and how it would be a for her.