Fall 2007

WELCOME TO RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR COUNSELORS!
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.
 
 
In This Issue...

Application and Personal Essay
A New Era
Visiting Rutgers
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
News Flashes
Douglass Residential College Events
Tell Us What You Think
 


Application and Personal Essay


Our online application for spring and fall 2008 is now available on our web site at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/ and many students have already submitted applications. The priority application dates are October 15 for spring and December 1 for fall first-year students. Please urge your students to apply early because of the increasing demand for spaces at Rutgers.

The application personal essay is required for academic scholarship and honors program consideration, and can also be an important factor in admissions decisions. Please therefore strongly recommend that your students include their personal essay when they submit their application for admission. 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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A New Era


Rutgers has successfully transformed undergraduate education at its New Brunswick campus with a dramatic reshaping of academics and student life. A new curriculum is now in place for students at the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), which is the university's largest undergraduate division. For details, visit here.

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Visiting Rutgers


Rutgers-New Brunswick's campus tour program experienced an astounding 65% increase in the number of visitors to campus this summer. Because of the great popularity of our campus visit programs, please strongly encourage your students and their parents to view our various tour options and make their tour reservations without delay at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/visiting.

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Create Your Rutgers Info Packet


There's an innovative 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 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. And please encourage your students and their parents to do so as well.

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Brower Commons


Vorhees Mall


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News Flashes


Hold the date: Our annual fall program for guidance counselors will take place on Tuesday, October 30. Invitations and details were mailed on September 28.

For the first time in Rutgers' history, annual fundraising for the university topped $100 million in 2006-07, a 31% increase.

Rutgers' first convocation for all New Brunswick first-year and transfer students sets a new tradition. Read more...
 
Rutgers-Newark professor Bart Krekelberg was recently named one of 20 U.S. Pew Scholars for 2007, receiving a $250,000 grant to fund his research in vision and eye movements.

Students admitted to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences with a major in biotechnology will be considered for $5,000 annual scholarships, and will also be eligible for summer internships, field trips, workshops, and faculty mentoring.

Students enrolling at Rutgers-New Brunswick for fall 2008 whose critical reading SAT score is 600 and above will be exempt from taking Rutgers' placement test in English.

Rutgers-Camden psychology professor Naomi Marmorstein has been awarded a highly prestigious Career Development Award of $649,503 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health to research connections between children's anxiety and depression and substance abuse throughout adulthood.

The 8-year BA/MD program offered at Rutgers-Newark in conjunction with UMDNJ has been terminated effective for applicants for 2008 admission. However, Rutgers-Newark's 7-year BA/MD program with UMDNJ will remain available as an option for first-year student applicants, and Rutgers-New Brunswick's 8-year BA/MD program will also remain available to students for their junior and senior years.

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Douglass Residential College Events


Douglass Residential College provides Rutgers women with a special women-centered residential environment as well as many programs and events of particular interest to women. Visit here for a schedule of fall semester events and details.

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DouglassCollegeCenter

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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