Fordham is very interesting to me. It seems like it has a lot of potential in the future. As of now, it isn’t a very popular university.
What do you guys think is in store for the future of Fordham? It’s good to see them competing in the patriot league. I’d like to see them decrease their acceptance rate more. It seems to be relatively stagnant (although has decreased slightly). I think if they lowered it to around the 20% area and improved their averages slightly they could really improve their reputation.It’s weird because they getting more applicants but their acceptance rate isn’t really changing
Also I think part of the problem is Fordham is either primarily a safety school for the very strong students applying to NYU or Columbia who expect scholarships or a reach school for people in the ACT 27 range.
I think this is what’s making it so hard for them to decrease their acceptance rate but if they slowly decrease it overtime I think it’ll eventually get a strong rep and no longer become a “safety” to the strong students but a “match”
The only way Fordham’s acceptance rate will decrease is to get more applications or improve their yield. (Or both). They have been going gangbusters on the “get more application” part by handing out free admission apps, but their yield gets lower and lower every year so they have to keep accepting more students in order to fill the seats. The reason their yield is bad is that they are too expensive. They need to improve the amount of Financial Aid and merit give to attract high stats students so they get better quality applicants who choose to attend after being accepted. This will improve their ranking and increase competitiveness.
Also I think the split campus doesn’t help. Some students for some Majors would prefer to be at Rosehill and some students for Majors that are offered at Rosehill prefer to be at Lincoln Center.
They could also improve their Core curriculum and make it more flexible. At 70 grand a year a lot of kids don’t want to be forced to take specific courses and want to pursue courses they are most interested in. This is been a complaint of several students I know that attend Fordham.
@suzyQ7 Interesting points. I agree, I think the main problem is the tuition and trying to get strong candidates to pick Fordham over schools like nyu or columbia. Thus, they need to offer aid and need to make money off of the less qualified candidates. Hard to find a solution to that
OP @whoopssry - It’s interesting also because it seems their acceptance rate was constantly dropping to 2007 before the market crash where it now has stayed relatively steady since.
Hopefully they can find a solution, seems like they’re really not too far off