No on campus housing?

seafoodlover
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:40:32 +0000

Fordham is a hot school. But admissions understands that they can still be just and kind and admit some kids on a non residential basis (as many colleges also do including the top 10), thus admitting them without dorms.

Fordham has always had commuter students so this is not new. All schools admit more kids than they have dorm space because they also know that kids apply to more than one school and will be admitted to more than one school and therefore decide to go elsewhere, opening up space if you will. Fordham, like ALL schools, has a metric…or matrix…of how many to accept, how many they expect to accept their offer of admission, and how many spaces may open up for the wait list kids. Some of the wait list kids are also commuters.

It varies from year to year how many spaces open up off the wait list, but its becoming fewer and fewer each year, as the demographics become almost unmanageable…more than 3 million high school seniors this year applied to colleges in the United States. This pushes down bright kids, who would have been admitted to top tier and Ivy Schools to Tier 2 schools and so forth down the line.

If you were offered admission without a dorm, at least be thankful you are in. You can decide where to go when you receive all your other acceptance letters and see what the finances are like, what the campuses are like, and if you want to go to Fordham or not. Take a few weeks and weigh your options and visit Fordham on April 12/13 and see for yourself. Listen to Fr. McShane speak.

Being a commuter you are no less a student than anyone else. Nobody really cares in class anyway. If you want to hang out with friends after class you do so…or arrange to meet them somewhere in the city.

As the scores of admitted students rise at Fordham, rising by 70 points I have heard, it becomes more and more competitive…just as NYU and Columbia and Barnard and Manhattan College and all the others in the NYC area…Marist even.

You should attend college where you feel you are the best fit and likely to do your best.

Good luck.