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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would look into the city of Newport News and see if that is the college town you are looking to reside. [/quote]

Just come out and say the quiet part you're thinking...[/quote]

NP here from the 75.  It's called Newport Nam because of the crime (it's a war zone).[/quote]

Yeah sure, I live here too and have been to real wars, like any city it has it's areas that could be better but it is not a war zone.  If you are from here you would know that, even Phoebus is rising.  CNU is in a great area of NN and a beautiful campus with great academics.  [/quote]

We visited CNU this spring and while Newport News wouldn't be my first choice for a place in which to attend college, the area around CNU was nice and included retail and a very pretty park.  I'm sure there are parts of NN that are decidedly not nice with bad crime, but why would CNU students go there (do Georgetown students hang out in really bad parts of DC)?  Plus, as I think someone mentioned, NN does have things like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc. and is only 45 minutes to the beach (Virginia Beach).  In contrast, we also visited JMU and while it has a beautiful campus and I think Harrisonburg is a very nice town, it's kind of isolated and short on urban amenities, which may matter to kids who aren't all that interested in outdoorsy activities.   [/quote]

Do you really think most college kids prefer Whole Foods and Trader Joe's to "outdoor activities?"  Wow.[/quote]

Unless beer pong is being played outside, yes.[/quote]

They can have both, CNU has some lovely athletic fields, a classic collegiate lawn, a top national women’s soccer team, football, weekly bonfires and a sailing team. Plus many students live in apartment style dorms and appreciate decent grocery stores.[/quote]

Just stop.  JMU is a better, bigger, more prestigious, and more fun option.  [/quote]

Who said CNU was better than JMU on this thread?  No one.  So you're responding to criticism that doesn't exist.  All that was said is that Harrisonburg is kind of isolated and lacks some urban amenities found in larger metro areas.  How is this not true?  (The Harrisonburg MSA population is about 135,000 while the Hampton Roads MSA population is about 1.76 million.)  JMU is a great school and in a perfect location if one likes to hike, mountain bike, ski, camp, etc.  [b]But not every student is into those things [/b]and you sure can't drive to the beach in less than an hour from JMU.  And neither school is prestigious, by the way.   [/quote]

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.

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