<p>Can someone shed some light on residential housing at Fordham? Housing at UPenn is about $4k and housing at Fordham is 17k? That seems completely crazy. While NY is a bit more expensive than Philadelphia is it THAT much more?</p>
<p>If my son doesn't get good merit aid he won't be able to attend Fordham and that would be too bad, since he loves it. But the housing alone would price him right out.</p>
<p>Room and board Is around 13k for upenn.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sfs.upenn.edu/paying/cost-of-attendance.htm[/url]”>http://www.sfs.upenn.edu/paying/cost-of-attendance.htm</a></p>
<p>You can save a little money by choosing a triple freshman year – that’s what I’m having my daughter do at Lincoln Center.</p>
<p>New York real estate is crazy. But you are in the center of the universe, a learning experience in itself.</p>
<p>It is about 3k more a year which seems like it’s too much. I am glad he applied RH. That’s quite a bit cheaper than LC.</p>
<p>If we’re talking about Lincoln Center dorms, let me put it in perspective: when the built the LC dorms, they deliberately made them like apartments so that if their efforts to make LC into a residential campus failed, they could just flip them into apartments. We’re talkingivig room, full kitchen, full bathroom, a full blown apartment in the Upper West Sode with sweeping views. If that isn’t dorm living at it’s finest, I don’t know what is.</p>
<p>The Rose Hill dorms are mediocre, though.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether you’re at LC or RH or any other NYC school, you’re going to be paying more because NYC real estate is not cheap. But there’s nothing like going to school in New York City, and the experience that those few extra thousand dollars affords is more than worth it.</p>
<p>We looked into 12 schools in the Northeast, and no dorm could compare to Lincoln Center.</p>
<p>Actually, TWO full bathrooms in a lot of suites. So you are only sharing with two or three other people.</p>
<p>Besides 3 private universities, my D applied to 1 CUNY and 1 SUNY in the city. As NY residents the tuition is around 5K per year at the public colleges but the room and board is close to 14K. Amazes me every time I think about it; only 25% of her college expenses will go towards her education. Although being in the city is in itself an education and well worth it.</p>
<p>McMahon, the dorm at LC, is a great value considering its location.</p>
<p>RH dorms–not so great. They’re about 25% too expensive, I think. If Fordham ditched the security guards in every dorm (and consequently got rid of the stupid sign-in rules) they could charge less for dorms AND make it a lot easier for residents to get group work done…</p>
<p>As a parent, I support security.</p>
<p>kayf - me too.</p>
<p>Part of the security is, to be honest, to prevent overnight guests of the opposite sex. If you search through the “Parents” discussion board, you will see numerous.numerous incidents of kids being “sexiled”, not being able to use their rooms (because their roommates are “entertaining”) – which they have paid for - to the extent that their academic performance is killed. I for one, want an end to this. If I pay for a room, I want my kid to be able to use it.</p>
<p>My kid is going through that right now, kayf.
The roommate’s boyfriend sleeps over two or three nights a week. They know how to get around the system.</p>
<p>Lefty, I hope this is not a lot of difficulty for your DD. The difference at Fordham is I think this is a violation of student housing rules. If it becomes too much, and roommate will not stop, I suspect anonymous report to Residence will put an end to it.</p>
<p>It’s one thing if you’re in a suite and your roommate has a sleepover guest in her single room, but being forced to share a bedroom with a couple is pretty awful. My D3 had this problem her freshman year in a room situation similar to Fordham LC’s dorms. In a very small double, her roommate had her (older, 23-year-old med student boyfriend) visiting from Chicago every other weekend. It was very uncomfortable for my daughter, who sometimes slept on the sofa in the suite living room or sometimes went to a friend’s room to sleep. Also, none of the 5 girls in that suite (other than the offender) were keen on sharing a bathroom with this guy on a regular basis. Of course, I wanted her to complain but she didn’t want to rat her roommate out. I wish I could have convinced her otherwise. It’s too bad that couples can’t find privacy, but in lieu of their own privacy, they should not violate their roommate’s privacy or peace of mind.</p>
<p>I’m surprised that is going on, LeftyLou, as from what I’ve read on student review sites for Fordham LC, the overnight guest rules are very strictly enforced. Guess not in all cases!</p>
<p>Referring back to the original post, I have found that Fordham’s housing rates are not so high if you compare what type of room you get. We toured a few rooms at Fordham and at first, I must say that I was less than impressed although it was our first campus tour. Having toured several other campuses since then, the dorms at Fordham came out on top. Other campuses we saw had shared hallway bathrooms, or one bathroom shared between 6 students and no separate living area or kitchen facilities. Many of Fordham’s housing options include a living area, full kitchen and two bathrooms - all of which would be worth it.</p>
<p>I am shocked that anyone had a BF there on a regular basis. A discrete word to a RA will stop this.</p>
<p>She survived. There were several uncomfortable nights. The relationship with the roommate was getting very soured at the end. She never told anyone though, just didn’t want to start trouble. But yes, it is done at Fordham, and it’s not that hard to do, you just need someone of the same sex to sign you in. Not a big deal to get around.</p>