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Chapman's main draw is film, and if allQuite BrightOther
Chapman's main draw is film, and if all you want to do is make a thesis film, get a degree, and then get an internship in the industry, then this is the place for you. Which is fine. I'm not speaking out against that. If that's your career path, great, go to Chapman. Otherwise, the only way I would recommend this school is if:

-you're rich
-you're from Southern California
-you're full of yourself
-all you do is talk on your cell phone while going to/from class
-socially, all you care about is drinking
-you don't care a bit about athletics
-you don't care about academics
-you're not very smart
-you like easy classes and absolutely refuse to participate in class discussions
-you don't mind a president/administration whose sole purpose within the school is raising funds and improving the school's reputation outside the school, while completely ignoring the students already enrolled

-on the whole, you really don't care either way about collegeNeedless to say, I am none of these, so I'm transferring after a year, which is a year too late.

1st Year Male -- Class 2007
Perceived Campus Safety: A, Extracurricular Activities: F
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Chapman is a university with distinctions in film,Quite BrightUndecided
Chapman is a university with distinctions in film, music, law, and, I think, business, the people who call themselves artists all have inferiority complexes which make them dull, closeminded, arrogant clowns that are too stupid to pull off the eccentric stereotype. The rest of the Chapman undergraduate class is populated by mindless, mildly retraded, mostly overprivelleged, not to mention insufferably boring jackasses who don't know how to have a good time. Never in my life have I met more opinionated nimrods in the film department as well as the rest of the campus.

Don't expect any good old fashioned liberal-style rough-housing, Chapman, as one of the bastions of Christian conservatism strictly prohibits the deviant behavior that should be a staple at any institution filled with people old enough to do stupid things, but still stupid enough to do them. Your luck is to join a frat, free beer etc. but the cost is that you end up having to shack up with all the losers in highschool trying to reinvent themselves for college by buying their way into a social life. Instead of Oktoberfest etc. Chapman has evenings filled with the cookies and punch, think elementary afterschool all over again.

Our cafeteria blows, today's pork is tomorrow's beef. I honestly believe the food is recycled on a day to day basis, they offer seemingly exotic food items to cover up the fact it uses roadkill to feed us. Don't get the meal plan, it's robbery. At least Chapman could placate us with something.

The surrounding town is a haven for the old and dying, and those bitter for being so. Be sure to have four wheeled transportation that utilizes the internal combustion engine to escape this hell on earth, everything within walking distance is an antique shop.

Save for the new dorms, which are mildly comfortable so long as they don't pack you in there with extra people as if it were some kennel, the older dorms are cramped death traps, Chapman uses these dorms as excuses to charge you extra money for f*ck-ups that were already there.Despite Chapman being noted for film, the students are largely pompous buffons, campus life is consequentially a non-event, more like a freakshow sometimes, and what else, Chapman has also screwed over a lot of my colleauges in areas of financial aid, credit allocation and the RAs are dicks.

1st Year Male -- Class 2006
Faculty Accessibility: A+, Scholastic Success: F
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I did not find this an exceptional privateOther
I did not find this an exceptional private school, especially after attending a public university in Texas upon graduation from Chapman. My advice to anyone who needs any kind of financial aid to go to an unknown private school: SKIP IT unless your family has money to burnI found the quality of instruction, facilities and diversity to be much greater at a public university- especially for the price!!!!
Alumnus Male -- Class 2000
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