My D looked at Fordham a few years ago, and we all liked it. She applied and got some merit aid there. It was not a school that was on my personal radar (I’m not Catholic or from the NYC area originally, although I had heard of it). I liked it better than BC, which we also visited. It seemed less sports-crazed, and the students were both serious and down-to-earth. The Rose Hill campus is very lovely.They take their Western Civ gen ed curriculum very seriously (a nice feature of many Catholic universities, IMHO.) I remember being a lot more impressed than I thought I would be.