<p>Glassharmonica…would your D be willing to share her schedule and a bit of her experience so far? I am sure she is extremely busy but it would be great to get a sense of how things go at Fordham. Will your D be an ambassador at Unifieds?</p>
<p>I think she will likely be an ambassador during the New York auditions, which occur around the unifieds. I don’t know if they take students to their auditions in other cities (probably not!) </p>
<p>I don’t know if I can convince her to come online and share her experience (maybe–she has an account.) But she’s not very into CC anymore now that she’s in actual college. </p>
<p>Her schedule is pretty intense-- usually 19 credits, I think–she needs to get tuition overrides, which is common for theater students. In addition to her theater classes, and her productions, she has to take the academic core requirement, which is a lot, so she works pretty hard. She has suffered through three semesters of Italian but next semester she gets to take Acting in Italian for Italian 4, which is a great payoff for all that work. </p>
<p>She is unusual in that she is double-majoring in playwriting and acting. There are only two others in the school doing this: SandKmom’s son, her, and a friend of hers who was accepted originally as an actor, but auditioned for the playwriting major last semester and was accepted. There are very few playwriting majors in the program- one or two in each year, generally.</p>
<p>What are tuition overrides?</p>
<p>Bisouu, generally you have to pay extra tuition if you take more than 18 credits. Overrides (also called waivers) let you carry more hours. </p>
<p>My son loaded up on 2-credit courses most semesters when he did his BFA at BU and regularly got tuition waivers.</p>
<p>“In my daughter’s case, Fordham was barely on her radar, but she went (2 years ago) to a mid-November information session where, afterwards, she met with SandKmom’s son, who was a sophomore at the time. We had connected through CC, on this forum. After talking to him, Fordham jumped from the bottom of her list to the top.”</p>
<p>We had a similar experience. We went to the city this fall to visit NYU, Barnard and Columbia. We had a free day so we decided to tour Fordham. After the tour, Fordham moved from pretty much nowhere to the top of my daughter’s college list. We arranged a tour by a Fordham theatre student and we were able to peek in on some rehearsals and meet some of the other theatre students. My daughter was most impressed by the school, the department and the students, as was I.</p>
<p>Oops, I think they are always called “waivers”. I don’t know where I got the word “overrides”!</p>
<p>Either way I didn’t know what they were LOL Thanks for the clarification. :)</p>