So last week Friday I finally got my financial aid from Fordham. 2 months late and 14 pounds lost but whatever I’m not complaining too much. As it turns out this was a problem for all of Fordham. At first I was fine with this explanation from the Dean of Associated Programs but as it turned out some departments handled it better than others.
At the Fordham Law school they arranged emergency 0% interest loans for all of the affected students. This, as it turns out is a program that is run by main campus financial aid, but this was somehow not available for business school students. It’s things like these why I feel like I really need to leave this school. This shows that the business school and Fordham in general is not doing a good job taking care of their students.
They say that all of these issues are due to a system change. But I worked in IT, if these screw ups were caused by a system change then there are two possibilities, either the people were not sufficiently trained on the system, or the system was not properly tested.
The fact that 2 months into the semester there are still students that do not have their proper financial aid is inexcusable. It’s not like this is some podunk low cost of living town. This is New York where a hamburger can end up costing you 15 dollars! You can’t survive on a budget of zero here! it is just impossible. But Fordham’s Graduate School of Business seemingly expected us to do it.