Fordham tuition award- how much are people getting?

[Anonymous]

It seems $30k is standard discount given as merit to attract full pay?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Fordham tuition award is something that everyone gets? The amount is unspecified on their website and seems to be different than need-based grants. My child got a tuition award of 26k plus a $10k Jogues scholarship.

I've heard Fordham has gotten stingier with merit but we were pleasantly surprised by $36k total.

My DD got $22,500 for the tuition award and another $12,500 for the Loyola Scholarship totaling $35K a year.

35 ACT (superscore)
3.95 UW GPA w/ rigor
Catholic coming from a Catholic HS
Lots of service and faith activities

Unless you really, really need the money, with those stats I would hope you are aiming for better than Fordham. No offense to Fordham - lovely place - but you can do better.

What a weird thing to say. Any school that gives 35K in merit is working to attract high stats students relative to their own stats. Pretty much by definition, you can always "do better" or they wouldn't have offered the student that award.

+1 DP here. DC received a significant merit scholarship to our highly ranked State flagship and received full ride scholarship offers to the next best State school and Fordham. DC could probably reach and "do better" but cost is a factor for our family.

DC will likely accept the highly ranked State school or Fordham offer because it offers a pathway to Wall Street. Would Harvard or NYU Stern offer better pathways? Sure, but we can't afford those.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the Jesuits schools my child applied to were around that same range for merit

To clarify - these were what I would call regional schools. Schools similar to Fordham, SLU, St. Joes, Marquette

Fordham is significantly more national than those

[Anonymous]

What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Congratulations to those who were accepted and also those who received merit!

Funny someone should mention Notre Dame; I'm an alum and my kid has NO interest in attending ND at all. She got into better ranked schools than Fordham but Fordham is a great fit for her and we aren't going to denigrate $36k in merit/aid!

People put way too much stock into rankings which vary by magazine to magazine, year to year...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

It's in NYC (expensive area) and they provide a liberal arts education with small classes and lots of personal attention. But they give good merit to lots of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the Jesuits schools my child applied to were around that same range for merit

To clarify - these were what I would call regional schools. Schools similar to Fordham, SLU, St. Joes, Marquette

Fordham is significantly more national than those

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

OMG. For those of us still in the research phase, it would help to know the net price after the merit award is deducted from the list price . . . not just the merit award itselse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

OMG. For those of us still in the research phase, it would help to know the net price after the merit award is deducted from the list price . . . not just the merit award itselse.

OP here. Our cost of attendance is $61k- a couple hundred dollars less than OOS Pitt (with no merit given).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

OMG. For those of us still in the research phase, it would help to know the net price after the merit award is deducted from the list price . . . not just the merit award itselse.

Fordham is extremely generous with merit. It often ends up costing around the same or less as many other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the base price for Fordham, before merit aid?

$98k tuition fees housing food plan (not including indirect costs)

OMG. For those of us still in the research phase, it would help to know the net price after the merit award is deducted from the list price . . . not just the merit award itselse.

OP here. Our cost of attendance is $61k- a couple hundred dollars less than OOS Pitt (with no merit given).

+1 That's a lot lower than some other schools that don't have the benefits of Fordham. Plus it's a beautiful campus.

Since it's in NYC, students can get internships during the school year. That's why Fordham places well on Wall Street and prestigious arts organizations.

[Anonymous]

Nice school but not in same category of ND, HC, Georgetown, and BC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice school but not in same category of ND, HC, Georgetown, and BC.

No one is claiming it is.