Good morning.
I am having trouble finding discussions for this anywhere. I just wanted to know if they are sending out decisions already.
Thanks.
I just got an email this morning that I was admitted! Very happy, but financial aid is a separate email and I haven’t gotten it yet, so I don’t know if I can really afford to attend. Worth a shot.
Congrats on the acceptance. I am still waiting, but my application is not complete now, after it already was. So I am likely going to have a longer wait.
Do you mind sharing your GPA and your general work experience?
I am hoping my work experience helps me with my overall 3.25 undergrad GPA. My GPA in my last 60 credits have been 3.75. But I don’t think Fordham looks at a student’s last 60.
Thank you! I had a 3.8 GPA in college from a selective university (albeit in an unrelated field). I am in the film/TV industry right now working full time and most of my internships in college were related to that, but I had a compelling personal statement and did join some mental health advocacy groups in college. I’m hoping they notice your awesome upward trend and take that into account! And I think they’ll probably like that you have work experience since it’s clear that you’re making a decision to go back to school, rather than just doing it because graduate school is “the next thing to do”. I did get a scholarship and I’m deciding whether to take out some loans to go here… It’s not the cheapest, but being able to keep my full time job during the day is HUGE and may offset the costs of going to a less expensive full-time program.
That’s great, thank you for sharing.
I took an elective class on film & literature (literature in the film industry). It was a very fun course. It was basically discussing novels that are adapted into movies.
I’m not much of a film industry expert but I love discussing, analyzing, and breaking down films. I follow certain director’s works and lookout for who is writing the movie. That’s why I chose that course. I bet a BFA in Film would have been just about the most enjoyable degree on Earth for me. It’s a guilty pleasure. But I would be scared of the job prospects. It must be tough. Like you really have to stand out so much to make a decent career out of it I imagine?
Anyway congrats on the acceptance again. Who knows, we may even be classmates because I am seeing some positive movement on my app status. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the new item added there, requesting for official final transcript means good news is coming soon.
I feel a bit slow for not knowing how to edit my post. I usually know this stuff easily lol. My apologies to CC if this is spamming. But I wanted to edit to say, I work in the mental health field as well. I have also worked in a State prison for several years before that, which has a huge mental health population. That job is what got me interested in social work. I work in a hospital now overseeing patients in the mental health unit of the hospital.