Fordham Housing

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<p>Hi, I am going to Gabelli School of Business in the Fall. It is in the Rose Hill campus. I have never visited the school, so I don't know what the campus looks like. I am applying for housing soon, so I need some insights ASAP. My criteria for the housing is air conditioning, location, how big the rooms are, the people in it, diversity, food, facilities, etc. </p>

<p>The housings that are available for freshmen are Alumni Court South, Loschert Hall, Martyrs' Court, and Queen's Court Residential College. </p>

<p>Can current students or people who have visited the campus inform me about which freshman housing is the best (most popular)? </p>

<p>Also, can you explain briefly how the roommate selection works? I'm kind of nervous about who my roommate is going to be. And also when does it start?</p>

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<p>Everyone loves Queens. They like the old architecture and say its very pretty. But, I like newness lol. Alumni Court South and Loschert are the newest freshman dorms and that’s where I want to be :)</p>

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<p>here goes a link on the housing, there is a brief description of each when you click on them </p>

<p>[Fordham</a> University - The Office of Residential Life at Rose Hill - Residence Halls](<a href=“Fordham University”>Fordham University)</p>

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<p>Freshman dorms don’t have AC. My D was in Loschart and had no problems</p>

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<p>My son was freshman this year and martyrs has AC units.</p>

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<p>current fcrh sophomore.</p>

<p>AIR CONDITIONING: if you have a medical need for a/c you get a room in martyrs with a window unit, otherwise no a/c in freshman dorms.</p>

<p>LOCATION: all within 30 seconds of each other on the west end of campus–close to metro-north and the library, medium distance from almost everything else, far from o’hare (i.e., the only food open after midnight).</p>

<p>ROOM SIZE: i’ve only been in queens, but martyrs rooms are known for being tiny. other rooms are average. some rooms in queens have private bathrooms and others have massive walk-in closets (and some have neither). beware of tripling.</p>

<p>PEOPLE: queens gets mad characters because it’s both the programming and “wellness” dorm. (you’re not supposed to drink and you have to attend programming a couple times a week, and the kind of freshman who doesn’t mind this is usually quirky.) you will be stigmatized you if you live in queens, but you’ll also meet a diverse/hilarious mix of people and, more importantly, you’ll have a great sense of community because of all the programming and because it’s a small dorm. south has the “silc” (premed) floor, and jogues (in martyrs) has the “manresa program” (one of your first-semester classes is taught seminar-style). basically, except for queens and silc, people are pretty much the same across the dorms.</p>

<p>DIVERSITY: in all dorms >90% of people are from PA, NY, NJ, CT, TX, CA, MA, OH, or FL. skin color runs the caucasian (and occasianal asian and rare hispanic) gamut.</p>

<p>FOOD: there’s a deli in the basement of queens that stays open til midnight. since you have to leave queens to get to it and all the freshman dorms are within a few seconds’ walk, you’ll have the same access to this no matter where you live.</p>

<p>FACILITIES: queens gets free bagels every sunday. 'nuff said. uh, all dorms have free laundry and some boring vending machines.</p>

<p>roommate selection (assuming you picked “random”) is…random. you’ll do a survey asking how messy/finicky/social/sexual you are and they’ll assign you a roommate (or two roommates) based on your responses. the system isn’t the greatest–obviously it can’t account for the fine points of personality that make it possible or impossible to live with someone–and most people end up shuffling roommates the following year.</p>

<p>*if you want to live in queens, silc, or jogues, you have to write a brief essay over the summer. if you apply to queens and get an email asking you to write some kind of response, respond to it within a few hours, because the building can fill up within a day (it did my year).</p>

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<p>If you want to try to find a roommate rather than go random, you could find the facebook group and start interacting with people there. You might find someone that you will want to ask to room with.</p>

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<p>On AC, you may want to verify with Res Life,but my son said all rooms in martyr had AC this past fall.</p>

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<p>So for freshman best housing seems to be Alumni Court South and Loschert Hall?</p>

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<p>Its preference. Queens is very special and has special programs…a debating society contest and rumors of being “haunted.” LOL. Lots of fun. </p>

<p>its all good. No real need for air conditioning except in September and maybe in May. That makes moving in and out a sweaty ordeal (though freshman movein is effortless with the help of assigned upper classmen.)</p>

<p>My daughter was in Queens and had a great year.</p>

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<p>Hi, I am a currently freshman at Fordham and I can give you more insight into each of the dorms (:</p>

<p>Alumni Court South - A LOT of science people because of the SILC floor. At least this year it seems like everyone who applied for silc and did not get it still got put in south. IMO it is probably the nicest freshman dorm. Its just nice and new. The rooms are decent sized for two people, nothing huge but nothing really tiny, probably average college. The lounges are nice also. </p>

<p>Loscert - Just like South really. I think Loscert is a big click though. I NEVER met people from Loscert, almost everyone I meet is from another dorm. I just find it weird that I never meet people that live there. The interior does look like south however.</p>

<p>Martyrs - Martyrs is huge itself while the rooms are tiny. It is the only freshman dorm with air conditioning and I know everyone says you only need it for a month at the beginning of the year, but it will be a long month without it! I really wish I had air conditioning. I think if you are in a double Martyrs is worth it. It is really not that bad compared to the others. </p>

<p>Queens Court - My home for this year. I HATE it, really the only bad part of my year was living in Queens. It is very cliquey and takes a certain kind of person to live there. Everybody does drink which did bother me because I lived there to not drink! We also had such a lack of programming this year, the promised bagel breakfast never happened till the year was half over and we have not had a group program in months. I also almost killed myself going down the laundry room stairs multiple times, they are steep and old and beware. The rooms are larger, but IMO not worth it unless you like cliques and drink but like to act like you don’t. </p>

<p>If you are nervous about who your roommate is going to be, I would try finding one on facebook. If your class is anything like mine, then people will look for rommate on it. I found mine on facebook and we got to talk all summer before we moved in and really got to know ourselves. Do not worry if you get a random roommate however. Most people I know are great friends with their randoms, even though the survey is not the best, it does a good job apparently.</p>