<p>How much would someone living at the Rose Hill campus be spending monthly?</p>
<p>Give me a B! Give me a U! Give me an M! Give me a P! What's that spell? BUMP!!!</p>
<p>Your question is rhetorical. </p>
<p>You can spend as much or as little as your heart desires. If you have the full meal plan and live in the dorms, and never go out into the city, then the answer is obvious. You can go into the city as often as you like (most go on Wednesday or weekends) and spend only the cost of the RamVan to Lincoln Center or the subway (not recommended) or MetroNorth Train (which everyone takes) , the cost of a hotdog from a vendor, and just take in the wonderment of Manhattan parks and people or window shopping, or you can go into the city and eat at expensive restaurants, buy expensive clothes, and see concerts or broadway shows. Or you can go to Yankees or Mets games. Or Knicks games. Or Rangers or Islanders games. Its entirely up to you.</p>
<p>Or you can partake of free admission days at the adjacent New York Botanical Garden or Bronx Zoo. </p>
<p>You will be (or should be) busy enough with school work to make "entertainment" a luxury, not a necessity.</p>
<p>How far do you live (at home) from campus? How often will you go home and incur travel expenses? Some go home often and some stay put and leave only when the University closes.</p>
<p>I am not being smug or glib, its just your question is subjective and rhetorical.</p>
<p>^I agree with you too some extent. But I would also have to agree that as a college student it is going to be an impossibility to live in New York City and not have a money at your disposal. I mean if you want to go to restaurants, or go shoppin or even just get drinks at a bar it's going to be expensive.</p>
<p>Cheap</a> Food, Inexpensive Restaurants, New York</p>
<p>I think that if you're like me, and won't have hundreds of dollars at your disposal, you're going to have get pretty creative.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link:) </p>
<p>And I wouldn't really call my question rhetorical because I do want responses for this. I agree that I should have been a lot more specific though. This is my current situation: I get $100 a month in allowance and I would like to go to symphonies and musicals and occasionally eat out. I'm guessing that I'll have to pass on the symphonies, but would $100 be sufficient for musical tickets and eating out a few times a month? I'll be living on campus. And also, does anyone know if Fordham offers free subway tickets or do we need to buy those ourselves?</p>
<p>I know that Fordham students can participate in Student Rush and get discount tickets to plays and musicals, but I'm not sure how much cheaper they are. I've heard some go as low as $20. If that's the case, then a hundred should be enough for a show and a few nights of cheap food a month. But I don't know?</p>
<p>I don't think they offer free Subway tickets.</p>
<p>My experience has been that students typically spend about $100 per week, excluding books, and medical and assuming a meal plan of at least 14-meals. It could be a bit more for girls, who buy more clothes and cosmetics. Some students get the money from parents, but many get it from summer work and part-time jobs during the school year. Granted, many students make due with far less, but two evenings a month in NYC are very expensive, and Fordham attracts many well-off students who go out a lot and dress well.</p>
<p>Damn that's a lot of moolah. Thanks a lot for the answer though, it's the one I was looking for when I first started this thread.</p>
<p>100.00 a week? No....that has to be a joke or typo. Its more like 100.00 a month but even that is high. Most kids are so busy on campus at Rose Hill that they only venture into the city on weekends, and that us usually only on Saturday. There are many opportunities for cheap tickets to plays, the Met Opera, NY Phil, etc. Even Yankee games. There are free museum days in the city as well. The party animals do their drinking off campus, across the street. Which of course is a very bad idea if you are under age and can get you written up, or worse. And your grades will suffer. </p>
<p>Dont stress about money. </p>
<p>There are lots of kids at Fordham who dont have a lot of money.</p>
<p>No joke. Welcome to New York City, where a drink costs $10 to $12 and students eat out a lot. Fordham is J. Crew U.</p>
<p>OH PUHLEEZE......</p>
<p>To the OP, its a terribly misinformed person, or someone with a rather skewed sense of priorties and/or a sick sense of humor. </p>
<p>Nothing could be further from the truth that kids spend upwards of 100.00 per week at Rose Hill. Its just simply not the case at all. If someone is spending that kind of money, they are just bragging about their expenditures and have a twisted attitude.</p>
<p>You can get by at Rose Hill on very little money if you are clever, DONT eat out in Little Italy 5 nights a week, and instead eat at the cafeteria on your meal plan and do your studying. The train into the city is 4.00. There are oodles and ooodles of middle class kids on a tight budget, who receive generous financial aid and don't spend hardly 100.00 a month on "entertainment" or "eating out". </p>
<p>If you have that kind of money to blow, good for you and have a nice day.</p>
<p>I have to get in on this. My son is a junior at Rose Hill. $100/week? Are you kidding me? That's hard to do. Granted, if you're going into the City every weekend, it's easy to drop $100 on dinner and a show, but who does that every weekend? You can get discount B'way tix anyway (at McGinley Center, or get down early and head over to the TKTS booth) and grab a quick, cheap bite to eat at any of the jillion dim sum or pizza places that line B'way and 42nd street. My kid goes to a lot of concerts down in the Village and some of the smaller Manhattan venues, but those tend to be cheap tix anyway.</p>
<p>Of course, you shouldn't be drinking until you're 21, but if you're determined to find a way around that, there are happy hours galore in the Belmont-area establishments just for thirsty Fordham students.</p>
<p>The ram van is cheap, the subway is cheaper, and you can get a MetroNorth city ticket for $6.00 round trip on the weekends.</p>
<p>When you get sick of the caf, you can get pizza and subs over on Arthur Ave. that cost no more than they would in just about any rural/suburban college town in the NE.</p>
<p>It's pretty hard to spend $100/week unless you come from a family where you think nothing of spending $100/week. </p>
<p>Besides, laundry is free!!! Believe me, that saves students a ton of money!</p>
<p>Damaris,</p>
<p>I hear what you're saying about clothes, and maybe Fordham girls do buy a lot of their clothes in the city. That would get expensive, for sure.</p>
<p>My kid waits until he's here on break and can get me to subsidize his wardrobe. :) I bought him jeans and shorts when he was home for break last week.</p>
<p>Yes, there are students with money at Fordham -- but I'm guessing a lot fewer of them are spending money like water than they might have just a year ago.</p>
<p>Right. I fully agree. My kid is a sophomore and has taken in Mets and Yankees games with discounted tickets, the Met Opera, the Philharmonic with discounts and eaten very inexpensively in Little Italy or ordering take out chinese on weekends or busy nightbefore exams. She does just fine on 100.00 a month or LESS. She isnt impoverished or idle or bored. She has a neat and clean wardrobe and doesnt feel out of place at all. But her focus is studying (and it paid off in SPADES!) not socializing or drinking.</p>
<p>The party animals and snoozers will always be there. They are at Princeton and Harvard too (we know this for FACT from friends.) Study hard, you will reap the benefits and the world will be your oyster.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies everyone:) The last few have made me feel a lot better</p>
<p>Steven,</p>
<p>For some reason, this thread has been running through my mind all afternoon. I think you've heard a couple of different perspectives, but if I were to wrap the discussion up in a big red bow, I'll say that, yes, you could spend $100/week at Fordham, just as you could $100/week wherever you go, even if you stay home. Those lattes and iTunes downloads do add up! :) </p>
<p>But don't go to Fordham thinking you're going to need a $100/week to have any kind of reasonable social life, because that is definitely not the case!</p>
<p>Part of going away to college is learning to budget your time and money. If you go to school having saved $3,000 in summer earnings and plan to use that as "spending money," well, you certainly could but there's no reason you have to! :)</p>
<p>If my kid told me he was spending $100 every week at Fordham I would have to sit down with him and have a serious conversation about just where he was spending all that money. :)</p>