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Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey

What is your definition of success?

  • Achieving a 4.0 grade-point average while conducting research on childhood asthma?
  • Assisting flood victims?
  • Founding your own theater company?
  • Running a successful bone-marrow donor drive for minority leukemia patients?

Our students have accomplished all of this and more. They came here with the initiative and desire to succeed. Rutgers gave them the chance to fulfill their dreams.

When Michael Shin entered Rutgers, he focused on pursuing a pre-med course load and never lost sight of his goal. By the time he was a senior, he already had one year of medical school behind him. Enrolled in a seven-year joint program between Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Shin is a now a second-year medical student. He hopes to become a cardiologist.

 

  
Nearly two miles below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Chile, Ebonie Sampson, a biotechnology major at Rutgers, conducted research on population genetics in deep-sea animals.

 

  
For Jacob Newman, a chemistry major, his biggest failure in the laboratory was actually a success that led to the discovery of two new compounds and a published article in a leading scientific journal.

 

  
Leandra Calderon has had the exhilarating experience of an internship's frantic pace at the business world's epicenter―the New York Stock Exchange.

 

  
When Leticia Hernandez began her college career, she planned on majoring in social work, becoming a resident adviser, and participating in the Latino student organization. She achieved all of these goals and more.

 

  


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