Chapman University in Orange County?

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Anonymous wrote:Ca resident here: I don't know anything about it other than it's in la and it's a school for people who can't get in elsewhere (see southwestern etc)

Family friend at Penn applied to Chapman as a safety. Love your safeties folks!

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Anonymous wrote:If you have a chance to visit, you'll be surprised at how small and unimpressive the school is. Like a large school in a nothing town. Look at Occidental or LMU. Instead.

Can you elaborate about the town? What's it like?

Chapman is like a large High School, not like a large college. There is really nothing that is visually striking about the school. The city is in Orange, CA - which has a creepy feel to it because thy have preserved all the 1920's era house as is - when you drive around you have the feeling that you are in some old movie. Other cities like Claremont have some natural beauty, but Orange is very strange. I sure wouldn't enroll before going out the see the campus and city.

Creepy? I have no idea where you're from or what your understanding of creepy is, but lots of communities have buildings from the 1920s - including DC - and it's not creepy.

I live in Newport Beach and have driven through Orange many times. It's a decent enough suburban town with one or two really excellent mid-range restaurants and its downtown is what I would call very quaint and pretty.

I will say the college has a reputation for being rather white and conservative. My DD has a friend in his junior year at Chapman and apparently it's not very diverse (racially or socioeconomically) and there are a lot of drugs being used.

I would not send my child to Chapman though. DD went to UC Riverside (we are residents so it was cheap and her grades were quite mediocre) and now is applying to law schools this winter with a 3.74 GPA and 167 LSAT, so she got a very good education at UC Riverside.

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^^^

If you live in Southern California and post messages to DC mom's sites at 1:30 in the morning you likely have a high creepiness threshold.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^

If you live in Southern California and post messages to DC mom's sites at 1:30 in the morning you likely have a high creepiness threshold.

Illogical troll post is illogical. Congratulations!

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Anonymous wrote:Ca resident here: I don't know anything about it other than it's in la and it's a school for people who can't get in elsewhere (see southwestern etc)

You obviously must live inside a cave and never read US News and World report or any other major college guide. While Chapman has had growing pains recently and seems to be more concerned with frat life and their students all living in expensive dorms and all getting free Disneyland passes from their rich daddies or is still 'not a school who cannot get into anywhere else.' It was 20 years ago but not anymore. Do you think a school who admits students with an average SAT of 1882 and gpa of 3.74 is a school that takes anyone? Look at the website for once. The school is also a too 6 regional school in USNWR and Hollywood Variety the major film publication in the country has listed Chspman Film as number 7 in the US. I have relatives who are interested in Chapman but outside of film they need to show more improvement especially in Science. Still this is a school that is growing in reputation and in a few years may get to the level of being a well known national university.
I would say Chapman is almost as hard to get into as UCSB and as tough to get into than UC Irvine or Davis. It is way more collectively to get into than Riverside or Merced. Finally unlike the UCs people graduate from Chapman rather than 6 so with decent FA Chapman is not much more expense than mid level UCs. Anyways do some research before you make a statement 'can't get into anywhere else.' Can't get into Ivies or Berkeley yes can't get into Nprthrdidge or Long Beach or Loyola Marymount no.

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[quote=Anonymous]Chapman, I think, is a Christian Univ. Did you check that out? Fullerton State is right next to Chapman. She could probably get into CSUF.


No, Chapman Univ. is in Orange, CA. It was not a prestigious college when I grew up out there. It has come "up" in recent years but is still in a crowded area of Orange, CA (not a great area). It's very expensive. A relative graduated from there a few years ago and still has massive loan debt. The only reason I see to apply from the east coast to Chapman is for the film school, in which case the applicant should also be applying to USC, since their film schools compete. Chapman is not next to Cal State Fullerton, although CSUF is near Chapman Avenue (a street named after a prominent Orange County family). No, an out of state applicant cannot get into CSUF - the CSU programs are amost exclusively reserved for Californians. I called CSUF to see if out of state DC could get in and they said no way their waiting list of Californians is a mile long. PP may be thinking of the University of Cal system (separate from the CSU system) which does accept out-of-states providing they meet rigorous academic stats and are willing to pay full-freight.