What are Fordham students like?

AdeleRose
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:36:06 +0000

My son is interested in Fordham Rose Hill because he’d like to go to school near NYC and it has his major. He liked the campus tour, but I felt the students we saw looked very conservative in their clothing styles, and the young men almost all had short hair. I wondered whether we were seeing all the business majors, and if all of the more “artsy” students are segregated at Lincoln Center. We saw just one group of guys with longer hair playing Frisbee.

Also, I read here (and on other sites where current students discuss their colleges) a lot of comments about underage drinking at the bars near Fordham RH. Although I read about the “wellness dorm” it seemed that drinking is a popular activity not just on the weekend but on Tuesday nights as well. I know that drinking happens at all schools, but the frequency that it was brought up in relation to Fordham gave me pause.

My son is an athlete who doesn’t drink or smoke, but he’s politically liberal, and lives in a city that’s not NYC where his friends are from all over the world. At his public school, there’s a lot of tolerance among the students for kids who are different in any way because there are so many different groups represented at the school. I wonder whether he’d find that Fordham lacks that diversity, too. (Not to mention that we’re not Catholic…)

I’d love to hear from current students or parents of current students. Thanks!