<p>How good of a university is Fordham? Do a lot of the students actually find their degrees from there useful? Is the area that it's located in, The Bronx, safe? Anyone go there?</p>
<p>Fordham is an excellent school. If you hold a degree from Fordham, I assure you that it will be worth a lot in the professional world. Fordham is a rigorous school, and they really try to prepare the whole student for his or her future. The core curriculum is annoying when you're going through it, but when you come out of you, you truly realize how much you have benefitted from it. Example: I don't know a single Fordham student who cannot write well. Fordham strongly emphasizes that students learn how to put their thoughts to paper, and is recognized nationally as having a very strong English department. Fordham is also very much on the rise as of recently. Fr. McShane, Fordham's President, has vowed to make Fordham the number one Catholic school in America by 2016 (Look up "Towards 2016" on the Fordham website if you want to know more. A lofty goal if you ask me, but I can say that he's made considerable progress, a great deal more than I would have expected. </p>
<p>As for the Bronx, yes there are parts of it that are unsafe (mostly only at night though). The campus, though, is very well guarded. Also, when traveling in the Bronx you just need to be aware of you're surroundings. If you travel at night, do so in groups. During the day, though, you're absolutely fine walking around anywhere. Directly off campus is the Arthur Avenue area of the Bronx. Arthur Avenue is the real little Italy of New York, not like that fake one in Manhattan. I came from the South (Texas), and when I first ate the pizza on Arthur I can say that I was in shock. It is absolutely amazing. Plus, all the people that run those places depend of Fordham kids for a lot of business, so you can expect steep discounts.</p>
<p>Thanks fordham217! I just wanted to know a bit more from an actual student. Do you know how Bio is like at Fordham? Is it at the Rose Hill campus or is it at the Calder Center?</p>
<p>Fordham's Biology department is, admittedly, not the best. But that isn't to say that it isn't good. I have friends (both Pre-Med, and just plain old Biology majors), and they are constantly working. You can tell that the Bio, Chem, and Physics Departments really challenge their students. Also, I don't know if this makes a difference, but because of the new parking garage, there is a sizable portion of the campus that used to be devoted to parking. Word around campus is that the parking lot is going to be converted into a state-of-the-art Science Center, with a primary focus on Biology. </p>
<p>What Fordham's Biology program lacks perhaps in facilities on campus. It certainly makes up for by having the Louis Calder Research Center. That place is amazing, and gorgeous. Many of the Biology professors that Fordham employs spend a lot of research time out at the Calder Center, and many Bio majors spend summers their helping their profs with research. Also, if you are perhaps interested in anything animal or plant related in the biology field, both the Botanical Gardens, and the Bronx Zoo are right across the street. Both offer internships almost exclusively to Fordham students. </p>
<p>Hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions.</p>
<p>That's great info Fordham217, thanks a bunch!</p>
<p>BU for science if i was you.</p>
<p>Why dont you apply to Lincoln Center? its more "safer" if thats what u want. I plan on applying there too.</p>
<p>No, I'm not an isolated suburbanite who's afraid of the Bronx. I know that it's a developing borough that's going through gentrification but it's just that people in my school use the word "Bronx" as they would use "Compton".</p>
<p>Fordham217 comments are accurate. IF you apply and if you are accepted, you will get a CD which is about an hour long that is about the Bronx, and includes Fordham in it....its very informative and enriching. The Bronx is not what you think it is.</p>
<p>I would not hesitate to apply to Fordham and its BIO program...as MANY of its graduates are admitted to PRESTIGIOUS medical schools and other graduate schools.</p>
<p>Visit the campus.</p>
<p>Talk to people on campus. We did.</p>
<p>Fordham offers something NYU and Columbia don't....a beautiful green campus at Rose Hill that is like many Ivy League campuses. Truly. Its gorgeous.</p>
<p>Fordham is perhaps less cut throat than NYU and Columbia. The Fordham family, we are finding out, is very close and help one another.</p>
<p>From what I have gleaned, it is an academic school. If you want a party school, go somewhere else. Its rigorous in ALL departments. But what you gain is a special degree from a special place that is ENORMOUSLY respected...and growing nationwide.</p>
<p>Ethics and Ethos.</p>
<p>vvvvaaaaaaaapppppp the bronx is no where near gentrification. the only really "gentrified" (read:white) neighborhoods are throgs neck, pelham bay, morris park, riverdale, and woodlawn. none of them besides morris park is even close to fordham. however gentrified means that was ghetto but white people came back in. this is happening slowly in the south bronx, but the above neighborhoods have been white for a long time. </p>
<p>not that we're racist or anything. lets stick to the "gentrified" word.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>well being white doesn't mean anything to me. I meant gentrification as "once ghetto, now full of diverse people of all cultures". I'm not a racist in any ways.</p>