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I am currently a sophomore at Cook College and am loving it. This is the perfect school for me. I get to walk to class and see cows and horses grazing in the field. For class, I get to play with goats and sheep. How fun is that? Alot of people dislike Rutgers because it is so big. Now, don't get me wrong, Rutgers as a whole is ENORMOUS! But, you really don't get that feeling when living on one of their campuses.  Come on now.......when your Biology professor comes to your dorm to hold a study session...you know it can't be that big. 
If your looking for a school with good athletic records...don't look here. I'm glad to say that I was at one of the very few football games the boys won. It's still a blast to go see the games. Go Knight's!!!!
 

Some Interesting Facts About Rutgers:
More than 300,000 graduates have earned Rutgers degrees over the years, including such notables as scholar, athlete, and entertainer Paul Robeson; band leader and TV personality Ozzie Nelson; sports legend Sonny Werblin; Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman; NBA Commissioner David Stern; awardwinning actress Calista Flockhart; and James Gandolfini, actor
Chartered in 1766 as Queen's College
 
Old Queens, located on the New Brunswick campus, was once the sole building of academic instruction for Rutgers College, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and the Rutgers Grammar School
 
Eighth oldest college in the nation
 
Named New Jersey's land-grant college in 1864
 
Designated the State University of New Jersey by legislative acts in 1945 and 1956
 
Member of the Association of American Universities, the 62 leading research universities in North America
 
Made up of 29 degree-granting schools and colleges, 16 of which offer graduate programs of study
 
Located on three regional campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway, in the center of the Washington/Boston corridor between Philadelphia and New York
 
The Camden campus became a part of Rutgers in 1950.  It is located just across the Delaware River from center-city Philadelphia and provides a vital educational center for South Jersey for approximately 5,400 students
 
The Newark campus became a part of Rutgers in 1946. As a former razor blade factory and brewery, this prestigious campus now serves over 9,000 students and spreads across 35 acres
 
The New Brunswick-Piscataway communities are home to over 33,000 students. It is also home to Rutgers College, the universitys oldest and largest undergraduate unit. Also housed on this campus are Cook, Douglass, and Livingston colleges, which are also residential colleges
 
The university enrolls a total of 48,000 students, 13,500 of whom are graduate and graduate - professional students
 
Rutgers employs more than 9,000 faculty and staff

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