Fordham vs NYU

College Search & Selection
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<p>I was really interested in NYU, but then I found out about how bad their financial aid was and how it would be pretty much be pointless to go there for undergrad. So, now, my second choice would be Fordham. </p>

<p>Questions</p>

<p>How does Fordham compare to NYU in science (specifically biology)?
How does Fordham's Financial Aid (specifically scholarship) compare to NYU?
How does Fordham's atmosphere compare to NYU's?</p>

<p>A little bit about me:
I'm a chill dude, I work hard, and I'm filled with dry humor. I have a 33 on my ACT, I have a 4.0 GPA, and I am 1/456 class rank on my transcript. A lot of my EC's are medically related. I have taken 11 AP classes. Currently, I have taken 4 AP Tests (passing all 4 of them), and I plan to take 3 more. </p>

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<p>Bump?</p>

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<p>What is your goal after college? Biology & Med School?</p>

<p>I think you may want to try both, Fordham certainly has better aid, but NYU does give out few merit scholarships to high stat student like you, maybe you lucked out.
If you were going to med school and you are NY resident, you may want get full ride or full tuition scholarships and save the money for med schools, as it will be expensive. Try some high ranking SUNYs as safety. IN addition, you may want to look into BS/MD programs, if you are dead set on medicine.</p>

<p>OTOH, if research is what you wanted, you can go to just about any school, NYU or Columbia included.</p>

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<p>Are you premed?</p>

<p>Fordham will be absolutely fine for Bio, but Fordham doesn’t give great aid either. how much aid do you need? How much will your parents pay?</p>

<p>Fordham does have some merit awards, but often if you are lucky to get one, that is all you get…the rest is a big gap. </p>

<p>If you are a NMF, then you probably would get free tuition.</p>

<p>Bio is Bio…it is everywhere. Every good school will have a very good program. It’s not hard at all for an established school to have a good bio program. </p>

<p>If you are premed, then just go to a good school where you can get top grades and have no debt. My son took a nearly free ride for undergrad, no loans. Now he is in med school. </p>

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<p>I was thinking about NYU, Fordham, and Columbia, but the thing is it costs too much (IK Fordham has some good scholarship money, but I don’t want to bank on getting a full ride when chances are very low)</p>

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<p>You are premed.</p>

<p>Do you qualify for HOPE even if your parents move next summer? If so, are you applying to UGa?</p>

<p>You need to ask your parents how much they’ll pay. If not much, then Fordham won’t be affordable. An ACT 33 is not competitive for their larger awards.</p>

<p>You won’t be instate for NY schools and wouldn’t qualify for any of their state aid.</p>

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<p>LIkely you will get a larger scholarship at Fordham, but certainly apply to both and see how things shake out. My S went to Fordham-Rose Hill (if that is the campus you are considering). and loved it. It has a very different from NYU because it is a very traditional campus in the Bronx. To him Fordham felt more like a community than NYU. And Fordham is a mid-size school rather than a large university which means more small classes etc. There is a Jesuit influence at Fordham and a large core curriculum (which includes philosophy and theology) but the Jesuits don’t push religion on the students. There is easy access to Manhattan and students certainly take advantage of it. Fordham also has a Lincoln Center campus which is a small (1 city block) campus in Lincoln Center. From what I gather, that campus, which has recently expanded, has a big of a different vibe because there are more grad schools, a theater program and a dance program there. From what I gather, the Rose HIll campus is where you want to go for the sciences but you can research that. </p>

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<p>One admonition for the OP, regarding Fordham-Lincoln Center: they have a full, traditional liberal arts curriculum, including Science and Math requirements, but they do not offer Chemistry at that campus on account of some Homeland Security restrictions in the Midtown area. This would obviously make it less than ideal for any pre-medical students, who would have to commute to and from the Bronx campus for Chemistry classes. </p>

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<p>@woogzmama‌ I believe you must go to RH to be a Chemistry, Biology, or Physics major as those are not offered as majors at the LC campus.
<a href=“http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/fordham_college_at_l/what_we_do/fields_of_study/”>http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/fordham_college_at_l/what_we_do/fields_of_study/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;