transfer

[lovelyladyrhyme]

Hi guys. I'm seriously considering transferring to Fordham(Lincoln Center Campus) for Fall of '08. Does anyone have any advice or little known info about financial aid, housing, or just general treatment of transfers

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[sp34k]

Transfer students are very unlikely to get housing at Lincoln Center, and from personal experience I'm going to have to say that fin aid is a bitch too. I've got about a million loans out right now. Totally not cool. Also, I've found that as a transfer, it's kinda hard to get information that other people who started in their freshman year seem to have. And I didn't have this problem but a lot of people I've spoken to had problems with transferring credits from their old schools.

That being said, I do like the school itself and if you're willing to go through the pain of transferring I think it's worth it. You just have to have a bit of patience.

[kahlan_amnell]

I've also heard that transfer students are very unlikley to get housing, particularly at Lincoln Center. This is partly because they shut down Marymont College and had to give perference to all the students who had been there in housing at Rose Hill or Lincoln Center. So if you don't live within a communteable distance from Lincoln Center, be prepared to find off campus housing. Look into it before you find out if you got housing or not. I see too many transfer students complaining at the last second that they got no housing and what should they do

[imclala]

Transfers are last on the list to receive housing. That said, all the transfers I've known who needed housing were given it. But most people who transfer prefer to just rent an apartment and know for certain that they have a place to live, as Fordham might wait until the last moment to let you know that you got housing. But if you really need a dorm, you'll probably get one.

Definitely apply early. Housing is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

[sarahndipity]

I'm a transfer who needed housing and didn't get it. I feel I've been jipped my Fordham a few times, however I still LOVE IT HERE.

I'd be MORE than welcome to talk to you about FU and transferring here, however I think it would be most sucessful if you just im me.

If you are intersted, let me know!

don't go here unless you have to.

[teh_fox]

fordham will probably not give you housing at LC. if they do actually give you housing, it will be at rose hill and you'll have to take the "ram van" to lincoln center. and fordham is a bitch about taking credits and if they do take your credits, they will make them electives and not applicable to the core or your major.

and the requirements are totally retarded (5 semesters of a language that are 3 credit classes with a 2 hour lab every week if you are anything but a natural science major... yea, pretty sweet...plus at least 3 semesters of religious philosophy classes and all that fun stuff.)

they also don't tell you anything and basically the place is run by a bunch of monkeys.

Re: don't go here unless you have to.

[imclala]

That's not true. They tried the 5-semester language requirement, but they realized it wasn't a good idea, so they changed it back to 2 semesters. And since when do they require three semesters of religios philosophy? When I went there a couple years ago, they required two semesters of theology and two semesters of philosophy, but most schools will have similar requirements and if you don't want to take a ton of core, don't go to Fordham. You should know what you're getting into.

And they do apply transfer credits to core and major classes, they just have to be "comparable" to Fordham's classes.

You need to be persistent with Res Life. They probably won't give you housing right away, but if you keep calling, tell them you really need it, and basically be really annoying, they should give you housing. Most people I know who transferred and got housing got the call just a couple days before the semester started, so you might not want to risk it. But everyone I know personally who needed housing and bugged Res Life got it.

Re: don't go here unless you have to.

[imclala]

Then they changed it again. When I went there, they changed the requirement for the class of 2007 (the year after mine). So, yes, I was exempt. But I was also an Ambassador for the admissions office, so I had to know this stuff