November 2007
WELCOME TO RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR COUNSELORS!
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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,
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In This Issue...
School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program
Academic Scholarships
The BA vs. the BFA in the Arts
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
Writers House
News Flashes
Eight Rutgers Professors Share in Nobel Prize
Tell Us What You Think
School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program
The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Honors Program offers a liberal arts education of rigor and diversity by connecting students with our best faculty, the resources of more than eighty academic major departments, and a high-achieving peer group. For more information about the program, requirements for automatic admission, and the process for students to self-nominate, click
here
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Academic Scholarships
The university offers a wide range of academic scholarships to both New Jersey residents and out-of-state students. Scholarships range from $2,500 a year to over $20,000 a year, renewable for three additional years provided students meet eligibility requirements. Applicants must apply and submit all required credentials by our December 1 priority application date (including their response to the essay question on our application). Click
here
to learn more.
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The BA vs. the BFA in the Arts
What's the best way to sum up the difference between our BA (Bachelor of Arts) and BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) programs in the arts? One professor said it best: "The BA is about theater...in the BFA, you do theater."
No one program is "better." If a student has a passion for a particular discipline (and doesn't care much about anything else), he's probably best suited for the BFA in dance, theater, or visual arts, or the Bachelor of Music degree at Mason Gross School of the Arts, our arts conservatory. If a student has an interest in one of these areas as well as other fields and is even thinking about double-majoring, then he would be best served by the BA program in our School of Arts and Sciences because it offers a more flexible approach.
Our application for admission enables students to apply to both Mason Gross School of the Arts and the School of Arts and Sciences. If admitted to both schools, students can choose where to begin their studies.
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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 packet
. 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
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Writers House
Located on the ground floor of Murray Hall, home to the Rutgers-New Brunswick English department, the new Writers House is a learning community for students interested in all forms of writing--poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, as well as newer forms of writing such as web authoring, multimedia composition, documentary filmmaking, and professional writing. Writers House includes seminar rooms where creative writing classes are held, a student lounge, and a state-of-the-art collaboratory. Read
more
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NEWS FLASHES
Applying by our first-year student priority application date of December 1 guarantees applicants consideration at all of the schools to which they've applied and notification by no later than February 28.
Submitting their response to the essay question on our application at the same time guarantees students consideration for academic scholarships and honors programs. The essay must be completed online.
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.
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.
For the first time in Rutgers' history, annual fundraising for the university topped $100 million in 2006-07, a 31% increase.
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Eight Rutgers Professors Share in Nobel Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in October that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundation for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Eight Rutgers scientists were participants in the IPCC and contributed to its series of climate assessments as contributing authors or reviewers. Read
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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 most effective, 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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