LMU vs Chapman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
LMU looks amazing on the surface, the campus is beautiful and the students are friendly. There are more female than male students. There is a big emphasis on their film studies and local internships in the "industry". Their average SAT is somewhere in the 1200s and they mostly take B students.

Your info on LMU seems pretty outdated. Average GPA for last year‘s entering class was a 4.0. Acceptance rate is 40%.

https://admission.lmu.edu/learnmore/prospectivestudents/firstyearapplicants/firstyearclassprofile/

That is a weighted GPA.
A 3.5 GPA is a B average, but weighted it makes a 4.0

Not outdated at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chapman is a rich kid school for Evangelicals and other Protestants who didn’t get into USC or a UC.

LMU while Jesuit has a lot of non-Catholics. More diverse student body. Great location near the coast.

Basically, Chapman is very white & Asian (aka the OC) whereas LMU is much more diverse (aka LA proper). Depends on what kind of experience your kid wants. Chapman will be more of a bubble; LMU will have your kid going out a lot in LA. About half of students live on campus at both schools.

Chapman is not Evangelical.

[Anonymous]

It's worth stating that Dodge College at Chapman is extremely competitive--no one is going there because they are "desperate"--more like they're desperate to get in. Film production at Dodge has something like an 8% acceptance rate. Similarly, getting into film school at LMU is also highly selective.

[Anonymous]

This is an old thread, but it’s worth noting that Chapman is on an upward trajectory (very ambitious fundraising and strategic plan) and their endowment has now surpassed LMU’s.

[Anonymous]

Also a 3.5 is a B+/A- average (not a B average). And if they're taking enough AP classes in order to get the 3.5 weighted to a 4.0, we're still talking about a strong student population. If you look at the Common Data Set for LMU, pretty much no one gets in with under a 3.5.