The situation isn't all bad. New Jersey has an applicant pool so talented that, even with the lowered admissions standards of the Lawrence years, Rutgers still gets a good number of top students. The point isn't that you can't argue against this perception. The point is that it is self-fulfilling. The 30 percent of top New Jersey students who currently stay in-state, a high percentage of whom come to Rutgers, will be going elsewhere.
Nobody wants to go to a school of last resort.
Lawrence always talks about. On the day when 50 to 60 percent of New Jersey's top students decide to remain in the state and attend Rutgers because it's simply impossible to get so great an education for equal tuition anywhere else, Rutgers will have become the university it ought to be. Reprinted with permission. Admissions at Virginia The University of Virginia admissions office recently let a reporter from a national magazine sit in on its admissions process . The student wanted to major in English.