Agreed. Fordham is an expensive school in an expensive city, and Fordham doesn’t have the endowment to meet full need. And a lot of the need aid they do give goes toward their traditional mission of educating local (Bronx) students who commute.
Every year there are students who leave Fordham due to the cost. Usually it’s a case of families signing on to pay more than they should because going to school in NY is a dream for their kid. But after a year, the kid realizes that going to school in NY is not the same as being on vacation in NY. And they look at their state flagship that seemed so boring the year before, and it no longer seems so boring, and the COA is $40K a year less. And they realize 40K will buy a lot of vacations to NY, among other things.