<p>D has an interview this week, what should she expect? Any current HEOP students or parents of HEOP students, would love to hear from you. Thanks!</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what were your D’s Stats? My brother also applied HEOP, but we have not received word of an interview. </p>
<p>His Stats are follows:
1410/2400 SAT
87 gpa
Extra Curricular: March of Dimes, AIDS Walk, Keyclub, Leadership Council, Volunteered at Hospital (100hours), Intramural Basketball Team, Guitar, took college now classes (A in Sociology)</p>
<p>Sure Zombymush - D 1600/2400 SAT…she also submitted the ACT 25, GPA 93, similar ECs as your brother, URM, Also did your brother send in your parents 2009 tax information? We didnt get an invite for an interview until I submitted those even though Fordhams Admissions dept had contacted us back in December to let us know that daughters application was referred to the HEOP program…hope this helps!</p>
<p>A friend of mine participated in a HEOP interview last year for NYU and since i was set on going to nyu at the time, she gave me all the details. From what i remember she said it was a very laid back, informal interview. They spoke about personal hardships, her family circumstances, working to support her family, and then spent a majority of time speaking of schoolwork. I remember specifically the interviewer asked about specific grades on the transcript that didn’t necessarily fit in with the rest and my friend was asked to speak about them a bit. They also spoke about her senior year schedule and asked her to elaborate on a few classes the interviewer was unfamiliar with. </p>
<p>Hope I helped, and good luck to your Daughter.</p>
<p>To CollegeBoundNYC, no we have not file taxes yet because I am still waiting on my w-2’s. We did file fafsa last week, so I don’t know how much that will count for. Your D’s stats are very good, much better than my brother’s. I hope she does well, Fordham has one of the best law programs in the nation.</p>
<p>Thank you Aramada that was great information…D interview was today and she just called to say she was accepted!!! I was totally not prepared for that, I thought she would have the interview and then they would let us know but she was told on the spot…she has some paper work to return and that is that! I am so relieved and she is over the moon right now… Good luck to everyone! Go Rams… :-)</p>
<p>My interview is next week and your information helped me a lot…Thank you so much!!</p>
<p>Hello </p>
<p>I am currently a student at fordham heop and i just felt the need to come here and just tell your daughter as to what to expect when going to fordham.
Last year i had a choice between a school a little farther where i could dorm and fordham, i chose fordham.
First of all, as a commuter it is EXTREMELY hard to make friends and everyone only hangs out with the HEOP people, really really really sucks.
i tried everything to try and be active and make friends but no luck, not to say that i am shy or not outgoing because im not. Im very outgoing and i have alot of associates but no friends. Most heop people find themselves going to classes and going home. Unless you decide to stay in the student lounge (bad decision!) </p>
<p>Everyone in the commuter lounge slacks off and skips class. and ughhh!! </p>
<p>this school is basically not the college experience, if the college experience is not important to your daughter then by all mean attend fordham, but for me it is very important. </p>
<p>on a side note, academics is really not that bad, right now i have a 3.2 which is not that bad for my first semester. just dont slack off because alot of people who hang out in the lounge/heop just slack offff. </p>
<p>Overall i am personally happy with fordham because of the great teachers, heop staff and the fact that i have a life outside of fordham. I know that this is only one opinion and that others might have diffrent opinions, but trust me, everything i am telling you now, i heard it last year and just brushed it of. </p>
<p>if you want the college experience basically dont come to fordham unless this is the best school you received acceptance to. </p>
<p>PS. summer school heop suckss but try your best it counts as a semester of work</p>
<p>I hope that your daughter heop class was better than mines and that your daughter will be happy at fordham.</p>
<p>not to add confusion, i said i was personally happy with fordham for academics reasons not social reasons. Basically the student population in fordham is so dumb and stuck up and snobby except for a couple of people. </p>
<p>dont expect to meet friends in classes, its not happening. </p>
<p>its basically a diffrent world for commuters</p>
<p>theirs them ( residents) then you. ( commuters)</p>
<p>so hopefully this finds way to your daughter, not to discourage her but to warn her. </p>
<p>Dont hang out in the student lounge, participate in class! ( it seems like all your grades are basically participation) and try and make friends/ enjoy nyc and not be limited to fordham.</p>
<p>Fordham 2013 - I really appreciate your input, that is exactly what I was looking for someone who was actually in the program view points. My daughter and I have actually heard the same sorts of complaints about being a commuter student and have discussed it. I’m not sure if your a student of the LC campus or the Bronx campus but my daughter chose the LC campus. That campus suited her personality much better, my daughter is not into the traditional college scene i.e (keg parties, football games, greek life etc) she likes a small quieter atmosphere, trust me my daughter will have no interest in the student lounge or other places of the like (too noisy to study) haha. My daughter has never had a problem making friends, she grew up in the city the majority of her close friends from highschool are attending schools in the city or nearby so she would have an active social life outiside of the campus and really at the LC campus…Manhattan is your playground.If you’ve never run across the rich snobby clan in manhattan that comes down from CT on the weekends and think they are in an episode of Gossip Girl then you must not be from nyc! lol…they are everywhere, my daughter is used to that “type” and laughs at them every chance she gets along with her friends… My point is it sounds like your personality didnt fit with the environment at Fordham to begin with… I hope your experience will improve next year…you can hang out with my daughter! haha</p>
<p>fordham 2013 i have a few questions to ask you about your hep experience
- i have my interview next week
- if i am accepted through heop, can i live on campus?
- how much do i have to pay out of my pocket?
- after a year can i transfer to a cornell heop program or columbia( as long as i maintain a high gpa)
- and finally, how was the summer program? like the schedule </p>
<p>PLZ AND THANK YOU!!</p>
<p>mosudan1992 - all very good questions to ask at the interview…I think like with any interview if you seem interested in the program by asking alot of questions like this it can only work in your favor. My daughter was told that the program is a commuter program but again we live in Queens, they may offer housing to those who live further away from the campus. We are waiting to receive the financial aid package now, from what I understand there is some contribution the family is responsible for depending on your unique financial family situation but if you got accepted under heop that means financially you are eligible so yoou should get the best possible financial aid package. I have put in a call to one of the directors I am waiting to hear back from her on a few of these. I will post as soon as I get a response from her. At the time my daughter was accepted there were 28 seats left. Good luck with your interview!</p>
<p>I actually had my HEOP information session on the 5th for NYU. It was just that, an information session, no interview? They told us that if they had all the paperwork they needed from you then there was no need for you to stay once the presentation was over. At the end they did call some names but only because they needed some signatures or needed to talk about missing papers . They simply told us that a decision will be mailed to us on the 1st of April. Is there an interview LATER? Because there was absolutely no one-on-one interview for my group, I’m guessing that’s just how NYU conducts their HEOP program.</p>
<p>andloveyelledno - sounds like NYU conducts their heop program in a completly different way from Fordham…my daughter’s interview was exactly that a one on one interview and she was pretty much told on the spot pending certain financial aid documents return she would be given a spot and sure enough the director called her with the good news just days after submitting those additional financial aid documents…I believe the NYU heop program is of a larger scale…the class size for Fordham is about 35 from what we were told I think NYU has room for about 150? Dont quote me on that but obviously a much bigger heop group…good luck with NYU…daughter applied to NYU as well and expressed interest in their heop program but as of yet we have not heard from them</p>
<p>So D was called in to the Heop office to pick up her official acceptance package and she was told to sign the enrollment committment form ASAP even though on the enrollment form it says you have until May 1st the office told D that the spaces fill up quickly and she should sign it right away…does this smell fishy to anyone else or is this standard operating procedure?.. D asked if she signed the enrollment form now would it be binding and she was told no but on the form it clearly states “yes I plan to attend Fordham” what happens if she goes somewhere else after signing the form, she is waiting to hear back from two other schools HEOP programs…anyone already in the program remember this from last year?</p>
<p>CollegeBoundNYC: Why is it suppose to be that difficult to make friends at Fordham? I mean it’s college… c’mon.</p>
<p>HopefulEagle86: What are you talking about?</p>
<p>CollegeboundNYC, I suppose that since Fordham2013 mentioned that it’s uneasy to establish friendships in classes, lounge rooms, and commuting areas, it makes me consterned about the University campus life and student body. I am looking foward to transferring into Fordham maybe after next year not only to increase my academic reputation, but to re-establish my social life and networking. Then you said that your daughter took over the LC campus quiescently and hung out with her friends from High School. My goal is to leave high school and make new friends in college. So about the fact that Fordham2013 and your posts really makes me wonder if it’s any difficult walking into this matter.</p>
<p>HopefulEagle86 - you completely misread my response to Fordham2013…re-read it and then I think you will understand it…making friends has alot to do with your own personality…my daughter is very outgoing and she was raised in nyc so my point was she will not be the fish out of water that Fordham 2013 and you both seem to be…I dont think you should worry about it too much after all Fordham Lincoln Center is in the heart of manhattan…if your not finding your social niche on campus by all means explore the city!!</p>
<p>Collegebound </p>
<p>I cannot stress enough how important it is to sigh that form and ASAP send it in!!! many of my friends who thought " what if i wanted to go somewhere else" missed out on the chance to attend heop because they did not sigh the formm!!! so important!!! now granted if your D wishes not to attend fordham, then do not sigh it, but if their is the slightest chance that she wants to attend fordham then by all means sigh in and return it asap!! this oppurtunity of attending heop at fordham is a chance of a lifetime and it is extremely important because spaces fill up very quickly! </p>
<p>i speak from experience!</p>