I was recently offered admission to Fordham at Lincoln Center. I’m a little worried about how religious the school may be. I’m also concerned because I know students are not allowed to have overnight visitors of the opposite sex. How strict is this policy? Are there ways around it? Fordham seems like a great school but this policy leads me to believe they might be unnecessarily strict about certain things. Specifically, is the school more conservative for this reason?
I was worried about this too and a few months ago I met with this girl from my high school who goes to Fordham now and she basically answered all my questions. She told me that students are generally pretty annoyed about this rule. It doesn’t seem like the students are conservative at all. I think the actual rule is that guests have to leave by 3 AM unless you’ve signed them in as an overnight guest, so anything that would happen in a room would probably have already happened by then. Also she said that one time a girl was sleeping over in their room and she forgot to get a overnight pass and it was a $20 fine or something but she didn’t get in trouble or anything like that. Apparently it’s really easy to sneak people in also. To me it seems like the university has this rule to sound good to parents and stuff on tours and to maintain their jesuit persona, but it’s not really super enforced and the students find ways around it.
lol also this rule is kinda heteronormative bc it just doesn’t acknowledge same-sex relationships
As a current student, it’s not a big deal. If it’s a relative, you just have to sign up a week in advance. If it’s not, you just get a friend of that gender to do it for you. Really easy. Plus you can sign people in whenever as long as they don’t stay the night.