Financial Aid appeals..help!

ghostbuster
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:34:04 +0000

Full rides on scholarships at Fordham generally require an SAT well above 1400. At Fordham, sadly, too much emphasis is placed on the SAT score for scholarships (and sometimes grant money too.) There are people on scholarships at Fordham with high SAT scores and rather mediocre grades. There are many factors that go into aid/scholarship offers and for the life of me I have never been able to see anything remotely objective about it. Its all rather subjective if you ask me and thus results are variable and sometimes appear to be arbitrary. I know kids at Fordham carrying a LOT of debt, and they have done well at Fordham. It doesnt make much sense to me.

Fordham is not known for being generous…just basically adequate. Its better than NYU from what I can glean from comments, however.