Holy Cross vs Fordham

ghostbuster
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:03:54 +0000

Redsoxx…you are most welcome. I agree that applying ED is the option ONLY if you are 100% certain it is for you. I don’t know if they have EA or not or what their deadline is.

I actually dislike these threads of comparing or pitting one school against another. Too often it gets emotional and different schools strike people in different ways. Its you who are deciding and you who will be going, so your opinion is really what counts here.

The Cross is an outstanding school. I have immense respect for it. Some kids want to get away further from home and some want to stay closer to home. So deciding between Worcester…and Boston, or New York is very personal.

I will say this much, I’m not aware of any TA’s teaching any courses at Fordham. My kid had two adjuncts, who were PhD’s teaching in the first year who were fine. One of those is now on tenure track. Fordham’s class sizes are also very small, because the LC campus is only 1,700 students and the Rose Hill undergrad campus is only 5,000, of which 3,000 are liberal arts and roughly 2,000 are CBA (business college). Most classes are 30 or fewer students with many 20 or fewer. Fordham students also work with professors on projects, from theology to physics. The admission rate for Fordham grads into prestigious graduate programs is very high, I know of one who is at Yale this year and another at Harvard Law this year. Fordham has a high percentage of admissions to med school and law school (I don’t know the precise figures, but admissions will tell you.) They regularly send kids to Cornell Medical School and Columbia. Fordham’s own Law school is a top 25 school.

I disagree that Holy Cross “owns” Fordham…but will let smile get by with rhetorical hyperbole. If he/she loves it (and Boston)…great…best of luck there!

Fordham also owns its own biological research station in Armonk. Plus it is adjacent to the gorgeous and world renowned New York Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo. Both of those institutions have joint programs with Fordham. Fordham also has a joint program with the Albert Einstein School of Medicine with Yeshiva University.

Visiting campus during the school year helps out. Seeing kids on the quad (Eddie’s Parade at Fordham), in the cafeteria, in the dorms or student apartments is really where it is at.

Finally on athletics, Fordham is making a new push (along with new facilities for students at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center) for improved athletics, and has recently received permission from the Patriot League (a non scholarship league, including Holy Cross) for 60 football scholarships next year. Fordham’s quarterback this year is John Skelton and he is setting records and is on the radar screen of NFL teams (according to major NFL scouting websites). They will upgrade their schedule to include Villanova, Connecticut and Army in the next few years. In basketball, they are in the highly competitive A10. We have a game against Villanova in the Izod Center this year and a game against nationally ranked Dayton in a return for Fordham to Madison Square Garden! In addition we host Xavier and the other A10 star teams at the venerable and historic Rose Hill Gym, the oldest active Division 1A basketball arena in the country.

Did I mention we had a surprise concert (at Rose Hill) from U2 courtesy of ABC’s Good Morning America last March? Ha ha.

I rest my case. Best of luck to you regardless where you end up attending college.

*late note: Skelton selected to the East West Shrine Bowl college allstar game: http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_1709.asp