Hey everyone!
I was looking through old emails today and realized that I was accepted to the Honors Program around this time last year. If anyone has questions about the Lincoln Center campus, its honors program, or anything about Fordham, feel free to leave your questions below!
Please don’t ask me whether or not you’ll get into Fordham, I’m not in the admissions office and so I can’t really help you there.
Are most first year classes lectures at lc? Will there be a lot of presentations required? Also, does your eloquentia perfecta course have to relate to your major? sociology major
What type of merit scholarships do people in the honors program usually have? Are the honors classes much harder than regular classes? Is it hard to maintain a high GPA in honors?
@mcaprice That really depends on the class. Science and other information heavy classes will be more like lecture style classes, but I’d say that almost every class I took either had a significant amount of discussions, especially in English and Theology, or in the case of my science professor was very open to questions and clarifications. The only exception was calculus, but I wasn’t too keen on having a discussion about antiderivatives so I was fine with that. I won’t say that there won’t be any lectures, but most classes allow for discussion.
As part of Eloquentia Perfecta, I think your EP1 class has to have a speaking component. I had presentations in Natural Science, English, and Spanish, but I wouldn’t say that there are a lot of presentations. Of course that will depend on major and professor. Math majors will have fewer presentations than English majors.
Definitely not all of them, your EP1 can be a bunch of different classes. A lot of my friends had US History as their EP1, and they aren’t history majors. EP2 is always a Texts and Contexts class, so that won’t necessarily be your major. I’m not sure about EP3 and EP4, but the diagram I’ll link here doesn’t mention a major requirement. I don’t think they offer them in every major anyway.
http://www.fordham.edu/downloads/file/915/core_curriculum_diagram
Take all of the eloquentia perfecta stuff with a grain of salt, because we don’t have those in the honors program. That’s just what I’ve gathered from my friends.
Good luck!
@maroonsun7 I’m pretty sure everyone has a merit scholarship. A lot of people have the full tuition NMSF scholarship, and I know one person who has the Presidential Scholarship. My NUMBER ONE TIP is to wait on submitting your deposit. Around mid April they tend to increase financial aid. I missed out on that and I regret it.
I don’t know if they’re necessarily harder. I know my English professor taught the exact same class as a Comp II class this semester. She was a very harsh grader, though. I got 5s on both AP English tests and aced high school English, but I never did better than a B+ on an essay. I would say that the main difficulty is that many of the classes require a lot of reading. We were doing a book per week for English, and about 2 readings per week in Theology. The saving grace is that Natural Science required almost no work outside of class except problem sets and labs. The problem with that is that Natural Science is a hard class, especially if you haven’t taken at least one AP science class. Just this semester we did things like general and special relativity, the fundamental forces, quantum mechanics, cosmology, chemical reactions, photosynthesis and respiration, the digestive system, ecology and disease. It’s a lot of information and a lot of concepts, but I enjoyed it a lot.
GPA is kind of iffy. It depends on the person and the course load. I took 6 classes/19 credits, which is over the amount of credits you can take without getting charged extra, but honors kids get an exemption from that rule. I got an A in Spanish and Theology, the latter of which I was happy with because Dr. Telly requires 96 or higher to get an A. I got an A- in English, Writing intensive, Calc 1 and Natural Science. My A- in Nat Sci was definitely because I forgot to submit my question of the week like 4 times, otherwise the class is manageable if you put in the time to study everything. My A- in Calc was because I did no homework the entire semester. The A- in English and HWI was a miracle because like I said, I never got above a B+ on the essay. In the end, my GPA for the first semester was a 3.774, which I’m happy with for now. I’m planning on getting it up next semester, but above a 3.5 is pretty good for college. Unless you’re going to grad school, no one cares about your college GPA.
@curiositysquared - they increase aid in April? To coax the undecided? I hadn’t heard of that.
Did you EA?
@byadg123 Yeah, I’ve heard of it happening to a lot of people, especially people who they think might get into high ranked schools.
I did apply EA, but I honestly don’t think it makes much of difference in admittance or aid. Most of my friends applied EA because they had a fee waiver.