<p>Looking to go into Fordhams 3-2 engineering co op with Columbia. I am currently in community college in San Francisco. I took some classes while in the military and recieved a 3.1 gpa while in the service and got 16 credits. In my first semester I got a 4.0 gpa also for 16 credits. My high school grades were a 2.97 gpa and 1900 SAT score. What do you guys think my chances of acceptance to fordham are?</p>
<p>I am also looking for transfer chances. I have a 3.8 college GPA in the honors program at St. John’s, 1990 SAT, 3.56 HS GPA. Was accepted last year but declined</p>
<p>Why do you want to transfer out of St. Johns? It seems like a really good catholic university just like Fordham or Manhattan.</p>
<p>Because of the student body/climate at St. John’s, as well as the fact that Fordham has an outstanding communications program. The two schools are not as comparable academically as I had thought when I chose St. John’s over Fordham last year. I’m applying to the Lincoln Center campus.</p>
<p>Oh I am applying to the rose hill campus. Lincoln center is an awesome part of town. I am sure you will get accepted man good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you, best of luck to you too! My only concern is financial aid. The admissions counselor I spoke with said that transfer applicants generally do not recieve merit aid, which worries me because the only reason I chose St. John’s was that it was $10,000 cheaper, but now I realize that Fordham would have been worth the investment. That being said, I don’t think it would be smart of me to go there if it cost substantially more that it would have last year</p>
<p>I wa accepted to Rose Hill last year, but after spending this year going to school in another NYC outer borough, I realize that I would rather be in Manhattan</p>
<p>Giving up merit aid to one school and then possibly transferring to that school down the road but losing the aid, is a dilemma I’m facing now with my daughter. Three schools offered good aid, and if we turn down any one of them, the offer will not be there if she re-thinks it and wants to switch down the road.</p>
<p>blankwall, I would not recommend attempting the 3-2 program unless your work ethic has improved significantly since high school. You have to get B’s or better in all pre-engineering courses the first time you take them to even be eligible for the 3-2 program, but you also have to have a 3.3 science/math GPA after taking all your pre-engineering courses at the “affiliate institution” (i.e., Fordham; you’d have to retake any math/science classes you took at CCSF). You’d be sitting for well over 16 credits per semester here if you were pre-engineering, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect you’d have a better GPA in college than in high school–unless, as I said, experience (military, Real World U., etc.) has improved your drive for high grades.</p>
<p>I wrote a very persuasive but tactful letter to admissions asking them to reinstate their previous offer so wish we luck! My academic performance over the past year has been substantially better than it had been at the time that I applied for Fordham so maybe they’ll be generous. I’m still going to have to take out massive loans, but it hasn’t been worth it being miserable at St. John’s like I have been</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that financial aid is statistically driven, so I’m not sure how far rhetoric is going to get me, but I figure it’s worth a try.</p>
<p>I wish you luck, jorlando94! It is a bit disheartening to realize that merit aid is given mainly to bolster the stats of the college’s incoming freshman class, which isn’t reflected in the transfer population, but I guess that is their perogative. Let us know what happens!</p>
<p>ya even If i get in I dont know if I will be able to afford it. Also a 5th year of school is a lot extra.</p>
<p>Well Fordham is the only school I’m applying to and there’s absolutely no way I’m going back to St. John’s so I really have no other back up plan. It comes down to the fact that Fordham
is everything I want out of a college and I’m going to continue to regret my choice not to go there if I don’t transfer. It’s expensive and I’ll have to borrow a lot, but money is money</p>
<p>Just curious: what are the keys ways that Fordham is everything you’re looking for, and St. John’s was not?</p>
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<li>Fordham has a strong Communications program, St. John’s does not.</li>
<li>I don’t fit in at St. John’s and while I have a group of good friends, I am overall very unhappy with the student climate, there’s a lack of ambition and intellect.</li>
<li>I feel as though I would fit in very well at Fordham</li>
<li>The academics are of a much higher caliber.</li>
<li>As a PR Major, internships are very important to me, and I will be much closer at Lincoln Center.</li>
<li>I want a Jesuit education</li>
<li>Queens is bleh</li>
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<p>Also, the unexplainable pain in the back of my throat that I get when I see a group of kids in Fordham gear on the subway. I gave St. John’s a shot and have a lot of good memories here, but at the end of the day life is too short to not try to rectify these sorts of things.</p>
<p>Well, that’s a great response, and certainly you should go after what you want!</p>
<p>The problem is, last year it would have cost me about $36,000 to go, and I would have had to borrow all of it because my family was strapped for cash at the time. If I could get in for the same price as last year, this year I think I could get creative so that I would only have to borrow half the cost of attendance, but say it ends up being $45,000 or something crazy like that, I’m not sure what I’m going to do because I just don’t think I have it in me to turn down my dream school TWICE for money reasons 
I did it once and regretted it, and now I’m
back at square one.</p>
<p>I think you said you wrote Fordham a letter about the financial situation? What about sitting down and talking to a someone in their financial aid office?</p>
<p>@My3Daughters: right now, or when I am accepted? I applied a few weeks ago, and shouldn’t expect to hear back until April at the soonest. I’m just trying to be proactive in expressing my concerns before all of the institutional aid has been used up.</p>
<p>I’m certain I will be accepted because I got straight As my last semester of HS, I’m sitting on a 3.8 at STJ, and have killer recommendations. It’s all about the money.</p>
<p>What would you suggest I do? Because I am currently at school in Queens (I’m from New Hampshire though), I can easily travel to Fordham via the subway</p>