<p>Both excellent choices and my son had them too. This is when it is not so much rankings, as other factors. I happen to love HC and if you are interested in a truly academic Liberal Arts experience, it’s tough to beat. Its Classics department is first rate, and you get that LAC loving that as a mom, I think is wonderful at the ug level. </p>
<p>My son took two courses during this year at Fordham, and I was super impressed at how attentive the profs were to him. Both very general first year type courses, and his papers were scrutinized and his exams were carefully graded. I did not expect this attention to detail and am most impressed. I don’t know how often this happens there, but it did for him and many others I know. But the school is bigger than HC and the intensity of academic caliber of the average student is not as high. But there is more spirit in terms of sports, and yet, because of its vicinity to NYC and the ease to getting to Manhattan, it combines the best of both worlds in a way few schools can. Rose Hill is as traditional of a campus as it comes, yet it has big school athletic facilities, yet can offer ready city school amenities. Unique in that regard. It’s also in the best spot of the Bronx. A lot to do right there. The beautiful Botanical Gardens are right across the street and you aren’t even a half a block, no streets to cross to take the train into Grand Central or you can take a van that runs regularly from the campus if you don’t even want to leave the campus for that less than a minute walk to the train station. Fordham also has a business school and more selection in types of courses as a university that an LAC has. </p>
<p>So it comes down to atmosphere, type of students, intensity of departmental attention that makes the big difference as well as locale. But you can’t lose either way. Congratulations.</p>