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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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.

A couple years later, they changed the requirement back for the class of 2009. However, students in the classes of 2007 and 2008 still had to do the five-semester requirement. Are you telling me that they changed their minds AGAIN?

I said that transfers are at the bottom of the list. But that list is not strictly first-come, first-served. Need is one of the many things they consider. If you make a pain of yourself and make it clear to Res Life that you need a dorm or you will not be able to attend, then based on my experience, they will give you one.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I have known plenty of transfers who lived off-campus. They were initially told that they did not receive housing and immediately found an apartment. I'm saying that if you hold out and call Res Life every day and make a pest of yourself, you will probably be given a dorm a couple days before the semester starts.

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

[techtress]

thats simply not true. I'm 2008 now but I entered class of 2009 and they as well as class of 2010 and 2011 have to take 5 semester or until level 2001 for language core. the only people except are pre-med, pshycology, business and i think theatre majors (but i could be mistaken about the last one).

As for when to apply do it ASAP! housing lists and financial aid are done pretty much based on when you apply for it. so the sooner you find out if you get in the sooner you can appeal for higher aid (which you can always do, they may not always give more but its damn well worth trying) and the sooner you can put yourself on the waitlist for housing. And actually transfers are not last. Order of preference goes: RH(or marymount) internal transfers, then external transfers like yourself, then LC/RH commuter students who wish to switch to dorming.

Good luck.