RE: Be accepted to Rutgers (not so hard, I’m told),
Rutgers was the alma mater of the great Nobel Prize winning Economist, Milton Friedman. Things have changed in just one generation.
No kidding. I remember when Chris Moltisanti and Jackie Aprile Jr. robbed the Jewel benefit concert at Rutgers and Jackie was selling X on campus.
Einstein taught at Rutgers. There was a table at the Metuchen Inn where he engraved his name.