Fordham University Top Questions

Of course there is a diversity between the students but a majority of the students are preppy and jocks. But there are definitely people here at Fordham that are are a little more outrageous, you just have to find each other!

With some good reason. If you look, though, you'll find a few less conventional types.

Some yes and some no. It depends how you look at it, and how you get involved on campus to have a true experience at any school.

Yes. Painfully accurate. This applies to Fordham Lincoln Center Campus, which is where I attend. If you're looking to go to Fordham and hope for some kind of romantic fling, then you better be a straight guy, because you'll have a chain of needy, desperate, slorry girls chasing you around. Really. It's a great deal for straight guys. Even if you're butt-ugly, you will definitely get laid here. If you're a girl, you will spend the majority of your time hating your life because you're only going to be some random guy's second choice, plus you're always going to be wondering if he's gay, or with that girl (which one? They'll start to all look alike) from your English class. And everyone will know who you're sleeping with. Or who you're not sleeping with. Or what you ate for breakfast, or what you didn't eat for breakfast, because you might develop an eating disorder from all the stress this school and it's student body put you through. That, plus the fact that everyone is nasty as all hell, and that Theater Majors will be singing show tunes in your dorm room at 5am, waking you up when you have an exam, the fact that you're not getting steadily laid is going to be a huge problem.

I don't think there are more gay kids downtown, but the kids uptown probably aren't as "out". The Lincoln Center campus is not even particularly gay - Have you been to NYU? Relatively speaking, that is an "out" school. I think the concentration of the arts program downtown facilitates the atmosphere that allows gay students to be visible. Alternately, all the NCAA sports are at the uptown campus, so that is where you will see students who are obviously "jocks" going to and from practice and games. Where can the "out" "jocks" be found? Good question! ;) Politically there is a mix on both campuses and I don't think the stereotype applies to either. Commuters being "poorer" is a joke - try paying market rent in NYC: that ain't poor. Sure a lot of commuters live with their parents - but if you already live here why pay the dorm costs? Besides, the school gives preference - and rightfully so - to out of town students. That one really was a stupid stereotype.

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Yes and no. I wouldn't call Fordham a suitcase school because kids rarely go home over the weekend unless they are close and its something important. A lot of the girls on my floor were from outside the tristate area and some were even from outside the US. Obviously they couldn't go home on the weekends. However, I would say we are a bit of a drinking school. A lot of the people I know like to go out drinking on the weekends and even on some of the weekdays. But there are still a good amount of students on campus who don't drink and find recreation elsewhere.

To some extent the stereotypes are accurate... However, with the pretty wide variety of people, new students will be able to find their group of friends relatively quickly.

While there are a lot of these people, there are tons that are not such as myself.

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The first stereotype isn't accurate because Fordham students leave the gates ALL the time to hang out in the Bronx. We shop on Fordham Road, eat delicious Italian food on Arthur Ave, take a fifteen minute walk through the Bronx to the D train and go to bars and parties in the area surrounding campus. If you never want to step foot outside of campus, it's possible to do so but I don't know anyone who never leaves campus. There's conservative groups on campus but there's also liberal groups. Both the College Democrats and College Republicans are very active on campus so it's definitely untrue that the campus is extra-conservative. The same goes for religion. If you want it, you can have it, but if you never want to attend a religious service or listen to a religious speaker, you can do that too.

not complete true but with more truth than one would immediately expect

No. Fordham is more diverse than you think it is. The student population is made up of way more than Irish Catholics. Not everyone is wealthy thouh there are a lot who are. Fordham students are extremely intelligent and more pragmatic and active than students at other schools.

The stereotype stating that Fordham students came here because they couldn't go to a better school iS ENTIRELY INACCURATE. i know plenty of kids who got into better schools but they enrolled in fordham because they loved the school. The suitcase school stereotype is a little more accurate, but still far from the truth. Fordham kids enjoy spending the weekends on campus and relaxing on Eddie's Parade or going into Manhattan.

1. Before I came to Fordham I thought all the students were going to be rich snobs, but that is REALLY far from the truth. Most students are really laid back. 2. Students are really interested in what goes on in the world, and in people who are less fortunate. There are tons of programs at fordham aimed at helping out the community (GO, service learning, etc). 3. People work hard, but they definitely know how to go out on the weekends :); however, most students are really responsible about not going out if they have a test or paper due, so you may see some of your friends going to the lib on a saturday, while the others go out.

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The gay part is. Otherwise, I think there are a lot of different people at LC considering it's such a small school.

Not at all...

1: It's very difficult to judge, of course. You never know who is taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans, and who is paying a full tuition every year from pocket, to give extreme examples. Fordham is very caucasian, to be sure, and most of the latino student population is comprised of commuter students. Otherwise, most of the student body I see dress the part of a prepster, if not middle class.

The school is predominantly white. but commuters bring some diversity. It is most definitely a bar school, but there are parties fairly frequently in the neighborhood.