Christopher Newport

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a few years, but when our oldest was looking at VA schools (we're in state) CNU was a nothing school much closer to the bottom of the pack than the top and not even in the same league as JMU or Mary Washington. It was ODU level at best. I know it's gotten more selective since then, but no I'm not convinced. I'd be embarrassed to send a kid there still.

To me, in VA, there's UVA, W&M, Tech, JMU, VCU and MW -- and nowhere else worth thinking about or being proud about.

UVA, Tech Engineering, W&M.
That's it. Nowhere else.

What of your kid doesn't have the grades for those schools, or you don't have the money for privates or out of state?

Then you do GMU, JMU, VCU, etc. And they are excellent schools. Ignore the ridiculous snobs on this board. Virginia is a goldmine of public universities.

Indeed, said the Maryland mom. You are so lucky.

DP. I was trying to think of another state with as many excellent public universities - CA, of course. Ohio, Texas, and Florida. NY... where else?

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a few years, but when our oldest was looking at VA schools (we're in state) CNU was a nothing school much closer to the bottom of the pack than the top and not even in the same league as JMU or Mary Washington. It was ODU level at best. I know it's gotten more selective since then, but no I'm not convinced. I'd be embarrassed to send a kid there still.

To me, in VA, there's UVA, W&M, Tech, JMU, VCU and MW -- and nowhere else worth thinking about or being proud about.

UVA, Tech Engineering, W&M.
That's it. Nowhere else.

What of your kid doesn't have the grades for those schools, or you don't have the money for privates or out of state?

Then you do GMU, JMU, VCU, etc. And they are excellent schools. Ignore the ridiculous snobs on this board. Virginia is a goldmine of public universities.

Indeed, said the Maryland mom. You are so lucky.

Yes! Until this thread, I had no idea that each of these VA schools were public. Always thought that GMU was private.

I refer to this chart often. First year admissions data for all public and private universities in VA.

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

DP. Great chart! I wonder why VT doesn't report its 75th/median/25th ACT scores.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a few years, but when our oldest was looking at VA schools (we're in state) CNU was a nothing school much closer to the bottom of the pack than the top and not even in the same league as JMU or Mary Washington. It was ODU level at best. I know it's gotten more selective since then, but no I'm not convinced. I'd be embarrassed to send a kid there still.

To me, in VA, there's UVA, W&M, Tech, JMU, VCU and MW -- and nowhere else worth thinking about or being proud about.

UVA, Tech Engineering, W&M.
That's it. Nowhere else.

What of your kid doesn't have the grades for those schools, or you don't have the money for privates or out of state?

Then you do GMU, JMU, VCU, etc. And they are excellent schools. Ignore the ridiculous snobs on this board. Virginia is a goldmine of public universities.

Indeed, said the Maryland mom. You are so lucky.

DP. I was trying to think of another state with as many excellent public universities - CA, of course. Ohio, Texas, and Florida. NY... where else?

Michigan

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I've heard CNU has a very pretty campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard CNU has a very pretty campus.

It is stunningly gorgeous. Very small, but beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard CNU has a very pretty campus.

It is stunningly gorgeous. Very small, but beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard CNU has a very pretty campus.

It is stunningly gorgeous. Very small, but beautiful.

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Are we talking about the same school, on Warwick Blvd? The campus is just down the street from Newport News shipyard. It's in the middle of military bases- all four branches are located in that area. It used to be, if a soldier could not get into ODU, you applied to CNU.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard CNU has a very pretty campus.

It is stunningly gorgeous. Very small, but beautiful.

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Are we talking about the same school, on Warwick Blvd? The campus is just down the street from Newport News shipyard. It's in the middle of military bases- all four branches are located in that area. It used to be, if a soldier could not get into ODU, you applied to CNU.

We’re talking about the campus. Everything you mention is not the campus.

I don’t dispute that it’s kind of gross around it, but the campus is beautiful. You might also want to update your points of reference and review the school’s current stats.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a gorgeous campus and solid school. On-par with JMU. My son has been accepted to a few “bigger name” schools, but eagerly awaiting CNU because we’ve heard merit $$ is good.

I don’t get the “gorgeous campus” comments. The school was built in the 70’s

It has a more attractive campus than most Virginia colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a few years, but when our oldest was looking at VA schools (we're in state) CNU was a nothing school much closer to the bottom of the pack than the top and not even in the same league as JMU or Mary Washington. It was ODU level at best. I know it's gotten more selective since then, but no I'm not convinced. I'd be embarrassed to send a kid there still.

To me, in VA, there's UVA, W&M, Tech, JMU, VCU and MW -- and nowhere else worth thinking about or being proud about.

UVA, Tech Engineering, W&M.
That's it. Nowhere else.

What of your kid doesn't have the grades for those schools, or you don't have the money for privates or out of state?

Then you do GMU, JMU, VCU, etc. And they are excellent schools. Ignore the ridiculous snobs on this board. Virginia is a goldmine of public universities.

Indeed, said the Maryland mom. You are so lucky.

Yes! Until this thread, I had no idea that each of these VA schools were public. Always thought that GMU was private.

I refer to this chart often. First year admissions data for all public and private universities in VA.

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

DP. Great chart! I wonder why VT doesn't report its 75th/median/25th ACT scores.

At the 75th percentile for SAT and GPA, the Virginia public schools look like this, which suggests CNU is solidly in the group behind UVA, W&M, and VT -- GMU, CNU, UMW, JMU, and VCU. All those schools are fairly close in stats.

School 75th SAT 75th GPA
W&M 1520 4.50
UVA 1510 4.52
VT 1400 4.24
GMU 1340 4.00
CNU 1320 4.12
UMW 1320 4.05
JMU 1300 4.06
VCU 1300 4.11
VMI 1260 4.00
UVA-W 1240 4.21
ODU 1220 3.76
RU 1150 3.73
LU 1140 3.86
NSU 1082 3.50
VSU 1040 3.50

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a few years, but when our oldest was looking at VA schools (we're in state) CNU was a nothing school much closer to the bottom of the pack than the top and not even in the same league as JMU or Mary Washington. It was ODU level at best. I know it's gotten more selective since then, but no I'm not convinced. I'd be embarrassed to send a kid there still.

To me, in VA, there's UVA, W&M, Tech, JMU, VCU and MW -- and nowhere else worth thinking about or being proud about.

UVA, Tech Engineering, W&M.
That's it. Nowhere else.

What of your kid doesn't have the grades for those schools, or you don't have the money for privates or out of state?

Then you do GMU, JMU, VCU, etc. And they are excellent schools. Ignore the ridiculous snobs on this board. Virginia is a goldmine of public universities.

Indeed, said the Maryland mom. You are so lucky.

Yes! Until this thread, I had no idea that each of these VA schools were public. Always thought that GMU was private.

I refer to this chart often. First year admissions data for all public and private universities in VA.

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

DP. Great chart! I wonder why VT doesn't report its 75th/median/25th ACT scores.

At the 75th percentile for SAT and GPA, the Virginia public schools look like this, which suggests CNU is solidly in the group behind UVA, W&M, and VT -- GMU, CNU, UMW, JMU, and VCU. All those schools are fairly close in stats.

School 75th SAT 75th GPA
W&M 1520 4.50
UVA 1510 4.52
VT 1400 4.24
GMU 1340 4.00
CNU 1320 4.12
UMW 1320 4.05
JMU 1300 4.06
VCU 1300 4.11
VMI 1260 4.00
UVA-W 1240 4.21
ODU 1220 3.76
RU 1150 3.73
LU 1140 3.86
NSU 1082 3.50
VSU 1040 3.50

Why are you going with the 75th percentiles? I’m guessing because if you went with the 50th and 25th CNU would be lower on the list.

[Anonymous]

How could those stats be accurate?

Vcu accepts more than 90% of its applicants. Cnu acceots more than 76%.

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Anonymous wrote:How could those stats be accurate?

Vcu accepts more than 90% of its applicants. Cnu acceots more than 76%.

Many kids like our own with high stats have no desire to go to UVA or W&M and apply these schools. Also VCU has a med school auto acceptance program which is popular not to mention many high stat kids apply to these as fall backs.

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Of all the tours we went on CNU was by far the nicest campus hands down. My DD reached out to a professor about a very specific question in a major she is interested in and he could not have been more responsive and helpful. Invited her to sit in on a class, which she did, and put her in touch with students to follow up with. I think some folks on here are using seriously outdated data points and memories.

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Anonymous wrote:How could those stats be accurate?

Vcu accepts more than 90% of its applicants. Cnu acceots more than 76%.

Many kids like our own with high stats have no desire to go to UVA or W&M and apply these schools. Also VCU has a med school auto acceptance program which is popular not to mention many high stat kids apply to these as fall backs.

VCU's urban campus also has a unique vibe that appeals to some kids more than Charlottesville or Williamsburg.

I don't get why people think acceptance rate is the ultimate arbiter of a quality student body