How strong of a school is Rutgers University?

This week, my group decided to interview numerous prospects from Rutgers University. I have not heard much about this college prior to this week. No people on my team graduated from there either, and the handful of people I spoke with were not very impressive, but I may have limited data points.

Does anyone have an idea if this a good school or a feeder program into any banks? I see its ranked decently high.

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From what I’ve seen, Rutgers is a state school where typically a student with a mid 1200 to 1300 student gets accepted. 
 

Not very prestigious and has major “Townie” energy based on what one of my close HS friends told me (he graduated from there). I didn’t really know what he meant when he described that to me but have a link that actually describes it quite well: 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Townie

Of course you can find bright kids from there and some are in fact going to be great additions to your team, but your average grad there, not so much. 

 

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