<p>My S loves both the RH and LC campuses at Fordham. He has heard that the dorms empty out on the weekends with the kids from NY and NJ heading home. Since he would be coming from FL this is not an option for him. Can any current students address this? I know that Fordham draws heavily from the NE, but does it become a ghost town on the weekends?</p>
<p>I do not dorm but I had a rare course that is on Saturday last semester. I admit, there are much fewer students there on weekends but it is definitely not a ghost town. I would there would be 50-80% fewer students than usual depending on the circumstances. Security is pretty much the same as usual. </p>
<p>Sometimes there are A LOT of people but that's because there are seminars held or non-Fordham students are coming in for classes (I notice Fordham rents out classrooms to other schools on weekends). </p>
<p>These are my opinions but it is probably better to ask a student that dorms there. </p>
<p>In general, kids from NY generally do not dorm if the commute isn't too far or too long. The students staying in the dorms are likely out-of-state students and probably can't go too far (except for late night partying in Manhattan).</p>
<p>I just noticed I refer to the students as "kids". OOPS! Oh, by the way I was talking about the school in general.</p>
<p>I don't really think this is true that the dorms empty out. Like your son, I am from someplace too far to travel home to on weekends. I live in Texas, and go to school here at Rose Hill. I would say most kids go into the city on the weekends to participate in various activities, but I rarely think that campus "empties out," with the exception of weekends like Columbus Day, where people have an extra day off.</p>
<p>False flag. The dorms do NOT empty out. Some kids go home (often to get some sleep and home cooked meals), but most kids go into the city on weekends or other activities. It is quieter largely....but its not an exodus. My D dorms on campus at Rose Hill and the majority of her friends are from the tristate area and ALL of them stay on campus. They go home maybe once or twice a semester above the usual holiday departures. The food service is open, the gyms are open, the library is open...the entire campus is open and lots of activities occur on weekends on campus, including football games, basketball games, soccer games, baseball games...etc.</p>
<p>even on long weekends, not that many leave....and if they do, they often don't leave for the entire weekend. </p>
<p>For the MOST part, on weekends, kids sleep in until noon....not kidding.</p>
<p>i dorm at rose hill. i go home almost every weekend. however the weekends i do stay at the dorm because of projects or whatever reason it may be, i do notice there are usually some sort of sporting activity going on. however not many people attend those from what i've noticed. i'd say most students just go out to the city during the day.</p>
<p>I went to Fordham a few years ago, when it was still becoming a nationally known university. Of my freshman hall, nearly all of us were from outside of the NY area (We had Boston, Philly, Ohio, NH, Chicago, Florida). I never felt that it emptied out. Sure some people would leave, but I would guess it is about 10-15% less of the resident students there on the weekend as during the week. I really do not understand why someone would want to go home every weekend (absent a family emergency).</p>
<p>It varies. A lot of people do go home, especially people from Long Island or New Jersey. What sometimes happens is that a resident's parents will be in the city for the weekend, so the resident really isn't there. For the most part, it's not an exodus; it's just that there's not a whole lot to do on campus in general—all the fun's off-campus or in Manhattan.</p>