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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Can you elaborate about the town? What's it like?[/quote]

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 [b]creepy feel to it because thy have preserved all the 1920's era house[/b] 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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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