Bronx or Lincoln Center

sovereigndebt
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:04:09 +0000

All of this is true. Agree 100%. Let me add a few salient points.

Many many well meaning and ambitious kids think they want to become doctors and major in biology. Over 90% give up long before they graduate with their bachelors. Its a tough slog, interests change, some find out they hate science or “blood and guts” and others find another passion in life. Undergraduate school isnt a technical training school, its designed to give you options to explore. Its all good. Nothing wrong with being ambitious and having some focus, but just be aware it can change and that is also fine.

Fordham gets kids into excellent medical schools.

I am not a fan of NYU as an undergraduate experience. Plus its gynormous. 35,000 students.

Getting into college is a matrix of factors, including personality and creativity. But mostly its a numbers game, as they attempt to be as fair and impartial and objective as they can, treating everyone with the same set of standards (cf. affirmative action stuff.)

GPA, class rank, difficulty of your coursework/transcript, reputation of your high school and the ubiquitous SAT score all matter a lot. The SAT score is likely the biggest factor. It is what it is.

Know your target schools inside and out. Focus on MATCH schools. Have a couple of reaches and a couple of safety schools (safety related to YOUR stats and scores.) Go from there.

No school is perfect and no school has it all. Not even Harvard.

Be true to yourself.

Nobody here works for Admissions and cant guarantee anything. We can recommend and advise and guide. And we are not you, your parents or your financial situation.

NYU is expensive, and it reportedly has a more stingy financial aid department than Fordham. If that matters to you or not.

Finally, nobody settles on Rose Hill. They choose it. There are some subtle and unique differences between the campuses, but the vibe is different and so are many of the students. Rose Hill has an environmental science program as well. The Provost is an Environmental Scientist and Fordham also has an Biological Research Station a few hours from campus, which is gorgeous.

If you want a classic college experience with sports and dorms and big leafy campus, then Rose Hill is awesome. And the Bronx gets a bad rap often from the uniformed. It is eclectic and has its downside. So does UChicago. So does Yale. But largely its urban legend and many, many Fordham Rose Hill students embrace the Bronx and learn to LOVE it… My kid did. We are NOT from NY. It was huge culture shock. But now its heaven. Trust me on this.

You want to be well above the 50th percentile of applicant’s stats. Good luck to you.