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WELCOME TO RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR COUNSELORS!
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Each edition of the Rutgers University E-Newsletter for Counselors will provide timely information, important announcements, and resources that will be helpful as you counsel your students about the college search process. You are receiving this e-newsletter because you provided us with your email address through the counselors' section of the undergraduate admissions web site. If any of your colleagues would like to provide their email address so they can receive future e-newsletters, please have them register at the counselors' section of our web site at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/counselors.
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In This Issue...
Application Fees
Application Personal Statement
Rankings
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
News Flashes
NJ Professor of the Year
Tell Us What You Think
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Application Fees
Our application fee has been increased to $60 for 2007 applicants. Please encourage your students to either pay the fee online at the time they submit their applications or to download the personalized payment form. After applying students may still pay online or download the payment form through the Your Rutgers Status website. If students bring you any checks, please ask them to mail their payment form and check directly to:
RU Application Center
PO Box 1388
Newark, NJ 07101-1388
Please do not send application fees to our Piscataway office address as this will delay the processing and review of your students' applications. We also discourage counselors from handling checks due to liability, privacy and security concerns. As a state institution, Rutgers has custodial responsibilities for controlling assets such as unendorsed checks payable to the University. In the best interests of our applicants, payments should be handled through the mechanisms we've provided. | |
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Application Personal Statement
We strongly recommend that applicants submit their personal statement. It will be an important consideration for academic scholarships and honors programs. Please encourage your students to include their personal statement when they submit their application. Students who would like to review the essay question and prepare their response before applying can preview our application at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/applying.
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Rankings
It seems like eveybody's talking about Rutgers' outstanding football team. The university community is extremely proud of the achievements of its student-athletes and coaches and all the excitement they have generated this year on campus, in the state and metropolitan area, and in the media. But Rutgers has many other high rankings of which to be proud. For example, the Rutgers-New Brunswick philosophy department was recently ranked second in the English-speaking world by the Philosophical Gourmet Report. Click here for more about this exciting achievement and the rankings of some of Rutgers' other programs. |
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Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
There's an innovative new tool available on our web site that makes it easy for students, counselors, and parents to obtain detailed academic and student life information about Rutgers according to their interests. This popular new feature enables anyone to create their own Rutgers information packets. Not only can the packets be customized according to academic interests, they also can include extracurricular activities and photo themes that bring our campus to life. Best of all, it's possible to create an unlimited number of information packets at no cost. Create one now by clicking the link above or visiting http://infopacket.admissions.rutgers.edu. And please encourage your students and their parents to do so as well.
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News Flashes
For the fall 2006 semester, 63% of Rutgers' undergraduate classes enroll fewer than 30 students; only about 4% enroll 100 or more students.
The School of Business at Rutgers-Camden will offer a BS in Human Resource Management beginning in fall 2007.
Rutgers enrolled its first NJSTARS transfer students this September, with about 50 community college graduates joining the university, most with junior status.
Rutgers-Newark opened its newest residence hall in September. University Square houses about 600 undergraduate, graduate, and law students in 2- and 3-bedroom apartments with kitchens and private baths.
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NJ Professor of the Year
Barry V. Qualls, a highly popular Rutgers-New Brunswick English professor for 35 years (who also is serving as interim vice president for undergraduate education during the transformation of Rutgers-New Brunswick) has been named the 2006 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Qualls joins two other Rutgers professors who have been honored by CASE as NJ Professor of the Year: mathematics professor Stephen J. Greenfield (2004) and history professor Clement A. Price (1999). Read more...
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Tell Us What You Think
We have created this newsletter for you. Our hope is that it not only provides you with useful information and contacts, but also that it helps you provide your students and their parents with the best possible guidance during the complex and critical college search process. For this e-newsletter to be the most effective tool, we'd like to know what you think. Please email us at counselorsnewsletter@ugadm.rutgers.edu with your comments, questions or suggestions for future articles.
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