February 2008
WELCOME TO RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS!
Each edition of the
Rutgers University E-Newsletter for Counselors
will provide timely information, important announcements, and resources that will help 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...
Invite a Rutgers Expert to Class
Women and Science
Transforming Livingston
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
News Flashes
The Latest From Admissions
Tell Us What You Think
Invite a Rutgers Expert to Class
Want to spice up classroom presentations? The Rutgers Speakers Bureau includes faculty and staff experts and scholars who speak to school, professional, and community groups on a wide variety of topics including New Jersey history, aging, marriage, genetics, labor relations, global warming, and urban redevelopment. The Rutgers Speakers Bureau is a service of the university's Office of Community Affairs, which helps to connect Rutgers experts with the citizens of New Jersey. To browse speaker topics and request a speaker, click
here
.
Back to Top
Women and Science
In collaboration with the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering is now accepting applications for Project SUPER (Science for Undergraduates: A Program for Excellence in Research), an enrichment program that provides programming and funding opportunities for undergraduate women in the sciences (including incoming first-year students). Among Project Super's offerings are a summer orientation in July, peer and faculty mentoring opportunities, programs and workshops designed to help students find success in the sciences, and undergraduate research experiences in the sciences, math, engineering and technology. Click
here
for more information and an application.
Back to Top
Transforming Livingston
Rutgers-New Brunswick's transformation of undergraduate education continues with big changes on the Livingston Campus that highlight the campus' role as a focal point for professional and continuing education. Ground was broken in late November on a 19,000-square-foot addition to the Livingston Student Center, the first step in a project that will also include renovations of the existing space and construction of a new dining commons. The renovations will transform the Livingston Student Center into a first-rate venue for lectures, performances, banquets, and other large functions, and will include a modernized multipurpose room with new sound and lighting systems, a collaborative learning center, additional meeting rooms and lounge space, a new convenience store, and an expanded coffee house.
More
...
Back to Top
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 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.
Back to Top
News Flashes
Rutgers graduate Junot Diaz makes a splash with his first novel, which features many Rutgers locales and details.
More...
Rutgers' Wireless Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) awarded the Alexander Schwartzkopf Prize for Technoligical Innovation.
More...
Four Rutgers professors were recently named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
More...
SAVE THE DATE
...You will soon receive an invitation to explore "The Hidden Gems of Rutgers" on
May 7, 2008
.
Back to Top
The Latest From Admissions
We are in the midst of our busiest period of reviewing applications and decisions are being mailed each day as we work to notify all first-year applicants who applied by December 1 of our decisions by February 28. We receive an average of 12 pieces of paper for each applicant, and most of that material arrives in our office during December and January, so it can sometimes take a couple of weeks before credentials are placed in applicant files. The timing of decisions can be affected by many factors, including:
the school(s) to which students have applied
where credentials place students in the competition
whether an audition or portfolio review is required (for Mason Gross School of the Arts)
Other developments:
We have begun notifying admitted students who qualify for academic scholarships
Our honors programs are sending out honors program invitations or applications to admitted students who meet honors program criteria
Back to Top
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.
Back to Top
Office of University Undergraduate Admissions