We live in NJ. Our son will be a senior next year and intends on majoring in engineering. He has a 4.0 gpa, great extra curricular and sports and 1490 SAT. We have visited a number of northeast schools including all of the NJ engineering schools except Princeton thus far. We find that many of schools have positive and negative aspects. We visited Stevens this past weekend and although it offers good career services we were not impressed with its housing and facilities and the Hoboken area especially at over $70000 a year. After finding this site and reading some comments I see that many share similar opinions on Rutgers, TCNJ, Rowan, as well as Lehigh, Lafayette and U Delaware, in terms of quality of curriculum, campus and housing and graduate outcomes and of course cost. My son will apply to maybe 8-9 schools and make a decision after seeing where he gets in and what the net prices are. What we are interested in getting more feedback on from others on this site is Rowan University. We approached the visit to Rowan as a possible safety school. After visiting and sitting through the presentation we left with a much different view. The presentation was more comprehensive in terms of engineering curriculum, graduate outcomes etc than any other school we visited. It didn't come across as a canned sell. The new facilities and dormitory were the most impressive of any school we visited. Some of the other schools like Lehigh and Stevens have vaunted reputations and were my sons top choices at one point. Were we missing something about Rowan? We walked away thinking that Rowan's total package was so impressive it couldn't be considered a safety option. Can anyone provide more feedback?
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