<p>I received my acceptance package from Fordham today and the letter informed me that they are unable to offer my on campus housing. Aren't freshman usually guaranteed housing? Is there a way I can possibly get housing?</p>
<p>wat?????????no way!!!!</p>
<p>i thought it was guaranteed</p>
<p>Some LOCALS are NOT offered campus housing.....so you will be a commuter student. Its better than being waitlisted or rejected.</p>
<p>Frankly, given the wild behavior that freshmen engage in inside the dorms, you may be better off! Your grades will be better.</p>
<p>If you ARE given housing, it is guaranteed for four years.....provided you register on time and pay your tuition and keep your grades up.</p>
<p>i heard some spots will open up when the accepted students who decide not to attend do not send in their deposits</p>
<p>i don't think its guaranteed, i know plenty of students that applied for housing and didn't get it.<br>
If you are a local, just commute, its probably a whole hell of a lot better than dorming. I hear that the RA's are anal about everything, and that the kids are wild.</p>
<p>My friend who got accepted into LC was also not offered dorm.</p>
<p>The dorms are wild,like at ALL colleges.....particularly for freshmen. Frankly, you may be better off commuting. While its a pain in the neck you still meet LOTS of people in class, hanging out on Eddie's, in the cafeteria, in the gym, or over at Pugsly's across the street. (local pizza joint that is just fabulous and a VERY friendly family owned Fordham family).</p>
<p>The RA's aren't overly harsh...in fact, I know of a few circumstances where they should have enforced the rules more strictly....with repurcussions for serious repeat offenders (drinking and curfew).</p>
<p>Plus your parents will save a BUNCH of money.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. When I applied I didn't know that they could not offered dorming, especially when you requested it. I was thinking about attending Fordham, but that's the number one turn off.</p>
<p>turn it down</p>
<p>Hi Fordham people..
We live on Long Island and my D also received acceptance without housing. She applied to LC..but I think she'd be just as happy to be at RH with the shuttle bus to LC if she could get housing at Rose Hill. Anyhow does anyone know if Rose Hill also had a problem with housing.. or..do you know if someone accepted to LC could switch to Rose Hill?? thanks..</p>
<p>east coaster, I am also from Long Island. I applied for Rose Hill but was unable to get housing.</p>
<p>fordham is preparing for what it's about to become.. a tier 2 university.</p>
<p>With all the new applicants accepting fordham's acceptances, fordham is not really ready for the room. They will start building a new housing building due to his overflow. It sucks that people who live 2 hrs away have to commute but, you'll have housing next year! don't worry, 75% percent of freshmans are not ready for dorm life. I sure wasn't. </p>
<p>I would even consider deferring my acceptance until you get housing next year. Spend your time in community college for 1 year, save money. </p>
<p>But if is too extreme for you, get an apartment nearby fordham. There are plenty, most students who don't get housing will get an apartment near by.</p>
<p>i dont know how i can survive without dorming ...i mean i honestly dont wanna stay at home..been waiting to dorm in college and i hope i get the chance...</p>
<p>That is a decision you will have to make. I have to tell you, that being offered admission you should consider yourself blessed. Fordham had over 23,000 applications for 1,700 seats. They are building more dorms. The acceptance rate is now below 40%. Its got a big plan to become even MORE competitive. So if you live on Long Island (which is for some kids only 30 minutes away or less), then its not too difficult to understand why they offered housing to kids who truly need it. </p>
<p>Yes, living in dorms can be fun...but its also a wild experience and not very healthy, frankly.</p>
<p>But I would attend Fordham and buckle down on your studies and benefit from NOT being distracted by wild kids at 300am. I kid you NOT.</p>
<p>Your GPA will be better and you will have a magnificent start. Then apply for housing as a sophomore and go from there.</p>
<p>so it looks like both LC and Rose Hill have more students accepted then dorm space..does anyone know if there's a "wait list" for dorm space?..the problem with this of course is that you'd have to let Fordham know you want to go by May 1..and maybe housing won't open up til after that date..what happened??..is Fordham becoming more of a residential school..attracting more out of staters..?? the problem is that living in the dorms is usually a "freshman thing"..by sophomore year, lots of kids want to be in an apartment..this would mean doing the reverse (if you don't want to commute from home)..might be strange..unless there are a lot of others doing it..but the downside is that all those others will be "locals" too..I think Fordham is going to lose a lot of good applicants who would have stayed in the area after graduation and been active "alums"..If anyone has spoken with Fordham about the off campus housing service mentioned in the acceptance letter..(esp for LC) would be curious about that..afterall an apartment near LC (even with roommates) is probably even more than a dorm would be. thanks again for everyone who replied to my last post..</p>
<p>Fordham is a hot school. But admissions understands that they can still be just and kind and admit some kids on a non residential basis (as many colleges also do including the top 10), thus admitting them without dorms.</p>
<p>Fordham has always had commuter students so this is not new. All schools admit more kids than they have dorm space because they also know that kids apply to more than one school and will be admitted to more than one school and therefore decide to go elsewhere, opening up space if you will. Fordham, like ALL schools, has a metric...or matrix...of how many to accept, how many they expect to accept their offer of admission, and how many spaces may open up for the wait list kids. Some of the wait list kids are also commuters.</p>
<p>It varies from year to year how many spaces open up off the wait list, but its becoming fewer and fewer each year, as the demographics become almost unmanageable....more than 3 million high school seniors this year applied to colleges in the United States. This pushes down bright kids, who would have been admitted to top tier and Ivy Schools to Tier 2 schools and so forth down the line.</p>
<p>If you were offered admission without a dorm, at least be thankful you are in. You can decide where to go when you receive all your other acceptance letters and see what the finances are like, what the campuses are like, and if you want to go to Fordham or not. Take a few weeks and weigh your options and visit Fordham on April 12/13 and see for yourself. Listen to Fr. McShane speak.</p>
<p>Being a commuter you are no less a student than anyone else. Nobody really cares in class anyway. If you want to hang out with friends after class you do so....or arrange to meet them somewhere in the city.</p>
<p>As the scores of admitted students rise at Fordham, rising by 70 points I have heard, it becomes more and more competitive......just as NYU and Columbia and Barnard and Manhattan College and all the others in the NYC area....Marist even.</p>
<p>You should attend college where you feel you are the best fit and likely to do your best.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Fordham and Manhattan College are of the same academic abilities? I am trying to figure that out but I am not sure, as the finaid packages come in, the more confused I am of where to go, it is either full ride to schools such as Manhattan or student loans to Fordham. I do think I will end up at Fordham though.</p>
<p>Fordham offered me off-campus housing.</p>
<p>How does the off-campus housing work out, especially for the incoming freshmen?</p>