<p>adcollegefreak: Yep, I enrolled at the New Brunswick campus about a month ago and I have my placement tests in less than two weeks, so it’s really exciting and everything! I also was accepted into the Camden and Newark College of Arts and Sciences, so technically, those were three different college acceptances in one week! Plus I think Rutgers has a much better reputation overall than UMass and is well known globally too. If you go onto their website and look up the rankings, you can find a lot of really impressive ones that they got recently, though rankings are relative and shouldn’t really play a huge factor in deciding which college you want to go to in the end. UMass is in the top 100 national universities, though it’s at #94. Rutgers New Brunswick is #68. I also signed the Rutgers-Rowan petition the other day and I was amazed by how many people were defending Rutgers and bringing up how prestigious getting a Rutgers degree is. I also applied to Ramapo College, where my cousin’s brother is studying economics, and got waitlisted there. Haven’t heard anything from them since but I really could care less anymore.</p>
<p>rollarcoaster: Wow. That sounds very unfortunate but it makes me feel a lot better that I wasn’t the only one who was screwed over by UMass. I didn’t expect the school to be so difficult to get in at all, though my SAT scores could have been a little bit higher because SAT math was never my strong suit. Even though they probably don’t look at the writing portion of the test, I made an 11 on my writing essay twice so that should have made me a bit more competitive. Oh well. Did your son try to apply to other schools in Boston like Northeastern, UMass Boston (a very easy one to get accepted to. I got an acceptance letter from them weeks ago), or BU as well as UMass Amherst? Even though I’ve already enrolled in college and stuff, I look back in hindsight and wondered if I could have gotten into UDel myself, but after reading this, I’m glad I didn’t waste my time with the school. They accept less than half of out of state applicants.</p>
<p>notrichenough: Wow! That’s very shocking. At Ramapo College in New Jersey, they apparently accept around 60% of waitlisted applicants. Sounds extremely low for a school that’s around 30,000 students and the largest state school in New England.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m very lucky that I chose to apply to many different schools because I had no idea the admissions for all these state schools had gotten much harder due to more people applying to all these places, though I will never know why I wasted my time applying to UConn at all and getting a rejection both online and in the mail. I had no idea where the school even was and just applied there as a backup I didn’t care about. Penn State would have been a much better investment though my parents both hate Pennsylvania with a passion.</p>