Chapman University

Chapman is a social school. What I mean by that is if you are shy and self-conscious you may not feel you fit in. The people here are very nice but you need to take initiative and talk to them. Do not expect them to come to you once orientation is over. Once you get in the "social system" it's great. I have found the peeps here to be extremely friendly and fun. No big surprise with so much to do on campus, the surrounding town and nearby cities. Basically, you just need to take advantage of everything the school and southern California has to offer. The cafeteria food is okay; The soup and salad bar is consistantly good. The daily specials are a gamble. Living in the dorms has been a lot of fun, and it's a relief not having to share a bathroom with the entire floor like most other schools. As for the academics, I have been very pleased. The administration has been able to get me in every class I wanted and works with me if I need to drop or add classes. They also are willing to meet with me whenever I want to discuss individual class progress and to career-council me. The classes are small and, for the most part, interesting, and the coursework is a lot but not overwhelming. If you budget your time fairly well you will have plenty of opportunities to go to Disneyland--it seems like the entire student body has a season pass!

1st Year Female -- Class 2007

Faculty Accessibility: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: B+

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

Chapman is great. The professors are easy to work with and they actually care about you and know you by name and face, not by a student id number. I will admit the night life at the school can be a little boring but as long as you have a car to get around in and a couple of friends you wont even spend any time on the campus. There is so much to do everywhere else in orange county. But the best way to get involved and have fun at chapman is to go greek or join AS.

2nd Year Female -- Class 2003

Friendliness: A+, Social Life: C-