Schools with traditional campus feel but within a city

[Anonymous]

Georgetown for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts and BC

Tufts yes but BC is in a suburb (Newton on one side and Brighton which is more densely populated across the reservoir). It is right outside a T line though so easy to get into Boston but not in Boston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:loyola chicago
marquette
providence


actually, lots of jesuit schools.

+1 on the Jesuits

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and BC

They are close to the city but not really in the city.

Agree on Tufts to a point. BC is right there. What PP wanted was traditional campus within a City. BC and Emory are top answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and BC

They are close to the city but not really in the city.

Agree on Tufts to a point. BC is right there. What PP wanted was traditional campus within a City. BC and Emory are top answers.

+Vanderbilt

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has no campus.

Northeastern absolutely has a campus (BU does not).

Macalaster if she’s open to SLACs.

DP. Visited both, but kid chose to apply to neither, so no bias either way. BU has a campus. NEU has a sliver of a campus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and BC

They are close to the city but not really in the city.

Agree on Tufts to a point. BC is right there. What PP wanted was traditional campus within a City. BC and Emory are top answers.

BC felt kind of suburban to me

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt

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Anonymous wrote:UT-Austin

+1 and Austin is amazing

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

Vandy is one of the closest fits for what OP clarified to be looking for.
Ditto UChicago
Also Northwestern (Evanston is a quaint village with a few restaurants they could walk to although not the liveliness of an urban city—but there’s an L stop right there and the kids there really do head into Chicago)
BC is similar to Northwestern being in Brookline but they can take the T into the city
BU is right on the edge of a lot of happening spots (Kenmore Square), walking distance to Boylston stree shops/restaurants and Backbay and you can take the T if you want to go further in to Faneuil Hall area; and it does have self-contained feel—ask the students (and brownstone residences on Bay Street are quaint and new dorms on West campus are amazing)

OP should definitely visit Boston and can judge for herself the feel of BC, BU, NEU, Tufts, Harvard, MIT, etc. all in 1 trip

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American
NYU
Not GW its really city

The only 'campus' feel about NYU is Washintgon Square Park.

And Washington Square Park has many non-student, including homeless.

+1 but it's still a great area

[Anonymous]

Chapman

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has no campus.

Northeastern absolutely has a campus (BU does not).

Macalaster if she’s open to SLACs.

DP. Visited both, but kid chose to apply to neither, so no bias either way. BU has a campus. NEU has a sliver of a campus.

Visited schools in the Boston area multiple times. BU primarily consists of buildings along two long stretches of road. I'm not even sure if BU owns those roads. NEU has an actual cohesive campus with defined boundaries.

[Anonymous]

St John’s in Queens, close enough to the city

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Appreciate everyone who responded. I should have clarified. We visited the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. As someone pointed out, you’re right, it’s not right in the city but you can catch a train just steps from the campus and they have a school shuttle that takes you to the Lincoln Center campus. What DS likes about it is that the campus is self contained. Other than the occasional sirens and honking the way the campus is laid out you would think you were at a SLAC in PA. But right outside you get the hustle and bustle of city life. You have the botanical garden on on side and the Bronx on the other.

I don’t think NYU fits in this category because it’s integrated with the city.

There is also some of the best Italian food going in Belmont just down the street.

We learned this during our research. Definitely a plus!