Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
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Anonymous
| DC loves Northwestern but it is long shot. What are schools in NE and upper MW which have the same vibe as Northwestern in terms of close proximity to large urban area? |
Anonymous
| Respectfully recommend using Google maps for this. Choose a larger town or a city and Google can be searched for colleges in the area - there are a lot around Boston, parts of New Hampshire and Vermont, Ohio of course and Michigan. I guess what I am saying is choose a city and then search for colleges within 30-50 miles or whatever range you want. |
Anonymous
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Loyola in Chicago
DePaul also in Chicago |
Anonymous
Do you specifically mean near, but not in, a large city? Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was Harvard, since it's in Cambridge, near Boston, similar to Northwestern being in Evanston, near Chicago. But of course that is an even longer shot than Northwestern. There are plenty of schools in the Boston and Philadelphia suburbs, but most are smaller than Northwestern with a different vibe. Maybe Tufts (outside Boston) and Villanova (that's Mid-Atlantic)? And then there are other schools that are in cities rather than the nearby suburbs like Boston University, Case Western, and Pitt. |
Anonymous
| How much less selective? Some to check out, at various levels of selectivity, various vibes, from suburban/edge of urban to slightly more urban: WashU, Vandy, Tufts, Case, U Rochester, Emory, BC, Brandeis, Villanova, American, Gonzaga, Loyola Chicago obviously, Univ of Denver. |
Anonymous
How can you be close to a "large urban area" in New Hampshire or Vermont? |
Anonymous
University of Minnesota is urban. |
Anonymous
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Tufts immediately comes to mind, although of course that's not much easier to get into than NU.
Rice Georgetown Boston College Brandeis Villanova Santa Clara University of Miami American |
Anonymous
| Macalester |
Anonymous
+1 DePaul's location is pretty great. |
Anonymous
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Not limited to NE:
Wash U Emory American Fordham Rhodes Loyola Marymount (LA) Colorado College GW SMU Reed Tulane Case Western Boston U Vanderbilt Rice |
Anonymous
| Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College. |
Anonymous
WashU and Tufts are about as tough admits as Northwestern. Second DePaul, Pitt, Emory, Boston College. Also Boston University and University of Portland if willing to go West Coast. |
Anonymous
WashU and Tufts certainly are selective, but their acceptance rates at 13% and 15% respectively are quite lower than Northwestern’s 6.8%. |
Anonymous
*higher |