School Counselors

You can send transcripts and school report forms through Naviance, Parchment, SCOIR or fill out the Secondary School Report Form through the Common Application online.

We strongly encourage all applicants to interview. This personal interaction enables us to get to know the applicant beyond their academic credentials, and allows them the opportunity to validate their interest in the University.

Christopher Newport was one of the first public universities in Virginia to offer test-optional admission over a decade ago, and many of our admission offers are made each year to students who choose not to submit standardized test scores. We made further concessions in 2020-21 to account for testing hardships by lifting the minimum GPA and rank-in-class requirements for test-optional consideration.

Our holistic review process takes many factors into consideration, and applying test-optional requires that we place more emphasis on other credentials.

Many students still choose to submit standardized test scores from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), American College Test (ACT) and/or the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to bolster their admission and scholarship applications.