Rutgers University-New Brunswick Top Questions

The financial department. The two halves of the department don't seem to comunicate much so things end up getting mixed up and students end up screwed in someway or another.

I can't think of anything wrong with my school.

One part was transitioning. They played a charade/waste of time class dedicated to transfer students. After stomaching the boorish hour long classes, I eventually began to stabilize myself with the social environment. As for advising, I had a hard time finding reliable people. Make of the professors I talked to offered facile suggestions that led me nowhere but in a circle. After a while I met a number of astounding professors who encouraged my academic perspectives and offered viable suggestions.

The infamous RU Screw! Because it's such a huge school, lots of little things slip through the cracks, like that prerequisite you didn't know you had to take that isn't technically listed as a required course but without it you can't take that last class to graduate. And despite Lampitt laws and the New Jersey transfer laws, you will still have a difficult time transferring from community college unless you knew right out of high school exactly what you wanted to major in. My best advice is to get a liberal arts associate's degree.

SO BIG!

Since Rutgers University is such a large school with many individuals with similar career goals, the scheduling process can get quite stressful. The classes close very quickly, within the first couple of minutes of the registration process. In addition, the distribution phase when they give out special permission codes for the classes is random. You must simply be lucky to be there at the right time and place.

While it is not a huge problem and does have its benefits, the most frustrating thing about Rutgers University is the incredibly large student body. Having so many students sometimes gives me the feeling of being lost in the crowd or that "just another person" feel. The school's advisors help tremendously to make each individual feel important, however it is nearly impossible to accommodate to every individual, so the phrase "help those who help themselves" becomes extremely relevant at my school.

The most fustrating thing about my is the bus systems at nights during week

At Rutgers, you really need to take charge of your education because it's easy to get lost in the shuffle. If can be hard to track down a professor for help, and many don't respond to email because they just get too many. At Cook Campus, where I go to school, it's more personable and the professors seem to care more. However, even at Cook, life's changing due to the budget cuts. Cook students are no longer guaranteed housing on their campus, and a large majority of students have a very disgruntled attitude toward the university.

I do not have alot to complain about, but something that is a little frustrating is the fact that there aren't as many places to get food late at night with your meal plan as I would like. One signs up for a meal plan that is roughly two thousand dollars, and after 9pm nowhere will allow you to use a meal swipe for food because they only except cash. This is a little frustrating because once the end of the year rolls around, you have a ton of extra meal swipes that don't rollover for next semester.