Fordham University

Date: Nov 03 2001
Major: Perfomance Arts (This Major's Salary over time)
Understand that I am writing this review as a first semester Freshman at the Lincoln Center campus who is waiting for acceptance letters to transfer to other schools. I am not referring at all to Rose Hill, only to Lincoln Center. I am a theater major at Fordham, and the department is wonderful and challenging. However, everything else about the school is poor. The academics here are a joke. We've reviewed commas in my english class, and I have a 4.0 without great effort. The classes are actually remedial. The core curriculum allows for little choice, and if you aren't at LC for theater or communications, there is little opportunity to investigate other areas. The social life is great if you like skeezy, hole-in-the-wall bars and getting hit on by old men. There is no on-campus social life because everyone goes out into the city. The dorms are apartments, and they are very isolating. I don't even know my neighbors. This school is 70% female, and it is obvious in the classroom. It is also 60% commuters, which has a great effect on any community that could be built. I am so uncomfortable and out of place at this school. It is like living in nyc and having a job, which happens to be class. It is an adult experience, and not a college one. There are kids here who like it, but prospective students need to be really aware of what an extreme situation it is. A great number of freshman have left already this year because they are unsatisfied (25-30) and more will be gone at mid-year.