College area Question
 

Dunno where this is supposed to go since it covers North and CEntral Jersey.

As a senior in HS I plan on going to college next year. I applied to Lafayette, Seton HAll, Monmouth University, and TCNJ. I was curious as to if anybody was near one of those.
(BTW Accpeted to SHU (10k/yr scholarship) and Monmouth (13k/yr scholarship) WOOOT.

I live about 2 minutes from Trenton State (TCNJ).

What do you wanna know about the area?

- Justin

I got my MBA at Monmouth and was an adjunct prof at TCNJ. I have also gotten drunk at the Hall. So go to Lafayette.

I grew up in Belmar, near Monmouth. What do you want to know.

i live down the street from tcnj!

It was sort of a 2 part question that i didn't explain very well..

1) What do you think of the surrounding areas/the school campuses (i.e. nice, prosperous area etc)

2) Any members nearby?

TCNJ is surrounded by members. both admins, a mod, and at least a dozen members within 15mins ro so of the school. there are also several memberswho graduated from there.

There are plenty of members within 10 minutes of TCNJ, and Ewing is a nice place. Plenty of opportunity for part time jobs in the area, and the campus is smack dab in the center of town.

- Justin

Not including Lafaytte, which I don't even know where it is :), Monmouth, Trenton State (oops, TCNJ) and the Hall all have good & bad areas around them. And we have members all over the state.

The Hall is in north jersey, close to NYC. All sorts of fun can be found. Also has a bigger alumni base. Don't underestimate the value of that.

TCNJ is near a lot of nice places near it, lots of members.

Monmouth has the beach, and is still close enough to NYC & north jersey for some fun. The beach is there too.

The bigger deal is this: What do you want to get out of school, what are you going for?

What is SHU?

Lafayette is in Easton PA.

i went to monmouth and live near tcnj

im 15-20 mins from tcnj a good buddy of mine goes to monmouth and have no clue bout the other one

I went to TCNJ and can tell you education wise it's a great school, especially for the money. If you get involved in any sports or fraternities there is plenty to do. If not it's a suitcase school and there won't be much going on for the weekends. What are you going to be majoring in?

SHU = seton hall university in south orange.

Obviously want to get a fairly good education. Party a little but not every night.

I'm want to go for business administration or management

If Business Admin is your goal then Monmouth University is a great school. That is where I graduated from and they became an Accredited university my junior year there. I went on to get a job in one of the top 5 accounting firms and had offers from 2 of the 5 so I got to play the salary game.

My only problem with Monmouth was the fact that on the weekends it's a ghost town. Everyone pretty much goes home to do laundry, hang with old friends, etc. Also, they took away the public beach that I used to go to and put up condos, and the club that was there I think is shut down. So you have to drive a little bit to get to some of the fun places now.

Still a pretty good school but it's private so MUCHO EXPENSIVE. I don't regret going there, but it wasn't like I had the best time of my life there either. Go to all of them and visit with current students and ask around. It's a big decision, but luckily if you don't like it after your first year you can transfer and probably not lose any credits.

Ryder has a good business school rep, no?

"business administration" - at least minor in finance. If I were to start over, I'd major in finance. Every company needs finance.

Rider is decent, my cousin graduated from there.

They gave me a sizeable (13k/yr) scholarship so it won't be all THAT bad. I had no idea that it was dead on the weekends...

I have no idea what I'm going to minor in but finance definitely sounds like a good idea.

13k is a nice chunk of change, but the other 20k/year still sucks

Yeah. Though the fact that he got right into the workforce after college with several options mean it might be worth it.

TCNJ has one of the best small business schools in the country...I had a number of offers right out of school. Did you qualify for any scholarship money there?

+1...and then on top of that they kill you with the books....that they always find the need to change EVERY semester so u can barely get them used :( I think if they could...they'd change them mid-way through the semester just to get some more money out of us. lol.
Good luck with you decision. :)

Even if he didn't he could prolly pay tuition and live there cheaper than he could at Monmouth with that scholarship.

- Justin

TCNJ and Lafayette have not replied yet.

if you are doing well enough to get offered a bunch of loot from monmouth you will prolly get a similar offer from TCNJ.

That's what I was thinking. I wouldn't think it would be too far off, since I got 10-13k from the other schools.