Christopher Newport — school spirit
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Anonymous
It has been passing out degrees for a long time but it became a University in 1992. Another example ECPI University. Locals know the beginnings. |
Anonymous
Not every student wants to attend a large school like JMU (or VCU, or GMU, etc.) and would prefer to attend a school of 5K students. https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/2020/03/19/christopher-newport-university-va/ |
Anonymous
I'm aware of it, yes, but only because I'm a long-time Virginia resident with kids in public schools and state colleges. No top student in my kids' schools or peer groups ever considered CNU. It's not a school for top students, period. Of course, not everyone can be a top student. I get it. And CNU may be a good choice for some of them. I just happen to think there are better options even for non-top students in VA than CNU. |
Anonymous
\ A huge number of dumb jocks from my NOVA HS went to Elon to play football too. I never knew where it was located but assumed VA since so many VA kids were going there  .
I am a native from Fairfax County and didn't hear of CNU until it seemed all the boys that play soccer started putting 'commit' on social media. When I saw "CNU" on this board, I always assumed people were mistyping an abbreviation for Carnegie Mellon (CMU). I guess it's a new thing, but just recently I have started seeing a lot of "CNU" decals on area cars. |
Anonymous
You’re not so subtly proud of your intellectual snobbery but you are just awkward and dim. — Pittsburgh native who lives in nova and knows about both CMU and CNU |
Anonymous
And you know this because you are not the parent of a non-top student in VA attending a state college. |
Anonymous
Nevertheless but the two year school that PP wanted to make it sound like. |
Anonymous
Just pointing out that per the official figures on SCHEV, the stats of the most recent freshman classes for JMU and CNU are almost the same: median SAT - 1230 JMU/1210 CNU; median ACT - 26 JMU/27 CNU; median GPA - 3.81 JMU/3.81 CNU. So the two schools are attracting the getting the same caliber of students. |
Anonymous
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Read through much of this thread and it wins on super annoying. And no dog in this fight.
But we looked at it CNU and our kids really liked it. Opted to apply based primarily on size. We know many kid there who love CNU and are doing great. And no, not a commuter school. |
Anonymous
PP here. Opted to not apply based primarily on size. Our kids who went to a big high school chose larger colleges. |
Anonymous
I think sometimes the locals can't keep up with the schools with fast-changing profiles like CNU and GMU. It's a testament to VA's economic and education strengths that there are 2 public colleges that have rocketed satellite colleges to reputable 4 year universities so fast. That said, it's increasingly important to look at the percentage of people submitting SAT scores with test optional. A school can look like its SAT profile is high but have only a small percentage of students submitting scores. I have no idea if this is the case with CNU/JMU, but it's one more data point to attend to as you figure out schools that fit--some lower scoring students may shy away from a school with a high SAT range but not realize that it represents 20% of the applicants who opted to submit--likely the ones with higher scores. Other schools say they are test optional, but 90% of people submit their scores. |
Anonymous
| Am I looking at SCHEV correctly? On the CNU profile for 2021 7300 applied but only 365 submitted SAT scores. So 5%? |
Anonymous
Thanks for recommending the SCHEV data. There are some interesting reports on their site -- for example, undergraduate enrollment by student's locality. Here's the 2020 data for Fairfax County. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/E12RA_Report.asp Undergraduate Enrollment By Student's Location of Origin Institution Fall Term Undergraduates from Fairfax County Percentage of *In-State Undergraduates Four-Year Public Institutions Total Public Four-Year Institutions 2020 27,744 19.5% Christopher Newport University 2020 677 15.2% George Mason University 2020 9,828 41.7% James Madison University 2020 2,550 16.6% Longwood University 2020 217 6.0% Norfolk State University 2020 67 1.8% Old Dominion University 2020 810 4.5% Radford University 2020 414 6.1% University of Mary Washington 2020 614 16.9% University of Virginia 2020 3,142 26.2% University of Virginia's College at Wise 2020 39 2.2% Virginia Commonwealth University 2020 3,378 16.7% Virginia Military Institute 2020 79 7.4% Virginia State University 2020 51 1.9% Virginia Tech 2020 4,545 21.2% William & Mary 2020 1,333 31.9% |
Anonymous
Common Data Set for 2020-2021 (C9) shows 1,002 of the freshmen that enrolled submitted SAT scores and 285 submitted ACT scores. |
Anonymous
Yep. Sheltered white kids who haven't gone to school in a diverse environment through HS, and parents don't want to send them to colleges remotely diverse. Sad |