Temple vs. Penn State Main vs Fordham

diontechristmas
Thu, 20 May 2010 19:16:38 +0000

No offense but this really is not true. Temple is 86% PA residents! Few come from NJ except for those that are rejected by better-and-less-expensive Rutgers (in-state tuition versus out-of-state tuition). Temple is a decent school for the price but is not a place to come from afar (i.e. not a destination college)



hahahahahhaha this is so laughably untrue. We have tons and tons of people from NY, NJ, CT, and MD/D.C. and a large contingent from New England and Florida.

Everyone I know here from NJ got into Rutgers, but had no interest in going to college in NJ.

My best friend at Temple is from Dallas.
My roommate and suit-mates freshman year were from NJ, NJ and South Korea.

Next year we have a bunch of kids coming from Colorado, Atlanta, Chicago, and expanding our footprint west, with a decent amount of kids from LA, Seattle, Phoenix.

Not to mention the number of internationals we have.

Schools people coming in turned down for Temple: Binghamton, UConn, Rutgers, Penn, BU, UDel, Penn State, Pitt, Ohio State, Colorado, Oregon, Alabama, Texas A&M, Fordham, Northeastern, Syracuse, SJU ¶(LOL), Ithaca, Miami, Illinois, UMass, Indiana, NYU, VA Tech, Missouri, Tennessee, Villanova, GWU, Marquette, Bentley, Tulane, UVA, Vanderbilt, American, Baylor, Wisconsin, Bucknell, Lehigh, USC, Lafayette.

So as you can see, people turned down some pretty damn good schools for Temple. I think saying Temple is not a destination college is laughable, especially coming from someone who goes to school in Bala Cynwyd/Overbrook.