<p>Dear StagNation,
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted into the Fordham College at Rose Hill Honors Program, and we invite you to join our community of learners on a journey that will last a lifetime.</p>
<p>If this email landed in your inbox, post below! It came for me just a few minutes ago and I'd love to find some other people who received it. </p>
<p>Congratulations! DD is in the RH Honors Program and it has been wonderful!</p>
<p>Well I received it for LC two years ago for me! Although I’ve heard both programs are very different (I actually don’t know anything about RH Honors, so let me know how it is).</p>
Bumping this
I got an e-mail today inviting me to the Honors Program at Lincoln Center :). @Matachines can you tell me more about your experience? What specific advantages are there vs being a normal FCLC student? What did you think of the Honors only classes?
No problem.
The biggest advantage is the core. The Fordham Honors core is tiny, and you are pretty much done with it by junior year aside from a Senior seminar. We do have to do a thesis our last year but the requirements are vague—one senior once did an iPhone tip calculator app, which takes a week or two at most if you are into that sort of thing. Most people do research papers though.
I’m sure some parent will come rant at me for saying this, but my least favorite thing about Fordham is the core. Way too long and stresses students out for no reason. You get to skip all that and can focus on your major or internship. I feel bad for all my friends who have to wait a few semesters to get some actual progress done in their major.
Difficulty-wise, it varies, but it’s definitely not hard like other college’s Honors program. Of all my Honors classes, two have been complete blow offs, some have been just normal “study/memorize and you will get an A”, and one was very very hard (Graduate level class!). Overall, not much extra work compared to regular students. I haven’t had bad professors, only great and ok ones.
For you the hardest course will be the new Natural Science/Math hybrid, which did not exist when I was a freshman. It’s a lot of science and Calculus mixed together. Can’t comment on it, but I can ask one of the current freshmen.
You get a card that gives you free entrance to all NYC museums for your first two years. After that it’s $50 a year.
You get your own classroom you can use at any time outside of classes for work or goofing off. Only Honor students can enter it. It has a projector, a coffee machine, and some computers. I’ve watched plenty of movies there on weekends and done all my homework in peace.
You get preferential treatment in class registration and scheduling. One of my friends is majoring in Physics, a major that does not exist in LC, because she got the Honors dean to pull some strings. She takes her classes at Rose Hill, but she did not have to transfer to do that major.
In my opinion it’s the best way to experience Fordham LC!
Let me know if you have any questions, and if you take Fordham’s offer, see you this Fall!
Thanks for the very detailed answer! I’ll be going to the April Admitted Students Day and hopefully that will help me make my final decision!
Because the core is much smaller, you have more opportunity to have a minor or do a double major.
And the honors room has been a godsend to my daughter. Sometimes you just need a quiet space. She had an over the phone job training session, her suite would not have been quiet enough, but the honors room was perfect.
Most people do write papers for their final project, but my daughter is going to produce a concert next month.