Favorite Urban Campus Med Sized school (not top 25)

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on how you define urban - Seton Hall is in a suburb but close to cities. Dayton is mot a city.

Duquesne? Fordham? Lesley? Drexel? Case? SMU. Tulsa. St Louis University. DePaul. Richmond. Butler. Tulane.

OP here good point on Dayton and Seton Hall.

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Anonymous wrote:Temple but bring a gun. UPenn is in a slightly better area. Macalester if you're woke.

Temple, 22,000 undergrads
Penn, T25 obviously
Macalester, 2,200 students
Wow. You were 0 for 3.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing a lot of love for Fordham among the local grads this year.

I wonder why Fordham doesn't get more love as it just seems like they have so many positives. Beautiful Campus (RH) in urban setting, mid-size, no greek. Sure I know they are expensive but merit aid is really good for a higher level student. Maybe they get squeezed out by state publics that are more cost effective and T-50 that are more desirable not sure?

It should be attractive for those who want NYC.

OP here- kid would love it but assuming it is out of our price range.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Temple but bring a gun. UPenn is in a slightly better area. Macalester if you're woke.

Temple, 22,000 undergrads
Penn, T25 obviously
Macalester, 2,200 students
Wow. You were 0 for 3.

some people don't read the original post 🤷‍♀️

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Anonymous wrote:yes, urban + business seems to be the sweet spot for a lot of catholic colleges
depaul
creighton
univ san diego
fordham

Public
pitt
univ minnesota twin cities
college of charleston

Don't think 21k and 40k undergrads counts as mid sized.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing a lot of love for Fordham among the local grads this year.

I wonder why Fordham doesn't get more love as it just seems like they have so many positives. Beautiful Campus (RH) in urban setting, mid-size, no greek. Sure I know they are expensive but merit aid is really good for a higher level student. Maybe they get squeezed out by state publics that are more cost effective and T-50 that are more desirable not sure?

It should be attractive for those who want NYC.

OP here- kid would love it but assuming it is out of our price range.

What's your price range? They seem to be decent w merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing a lot of love for Fordham among the local grads this year.

I wonder why Fordham doesn't get more love as it just seems like they have so many positives. Beautiful Campus (RH) in urban setting, mid-size, no greek. Sure I know they are expensive but merit aid is really good for a higher level student. Maybe they get squeezed out by state publics that are more cost effective and T-50 that are more desirable not sure?

It should be attractive for those who want NYC.

OP here- kid would love it but assuming it is out of our price range.

PP. The other PP is right, sometimes they do give merit. Might be worth a try as long as the kid has realistic expectations on affordability.

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American.

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Belmont

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing a lot of love for Fordham among the local grads this year.

I wonder why Fordham doesn't get more love as it just seems like they have so many positives. Beautiful Campus (RH) in urban setting, mid-size, no greek. Sure I know they are expensive but merit aid is really good for a higher level student. Maybe they get squeezed out by state publics that are more cost effective and T-50 that are more desirable not sure?

I went on a tour of Fordham with my kid and I wanted to go to Fordham afterward. My cousin taught there for a while and her assessment was that kids at Fordham just seem happy. Rose Hill is a beautiful campus which is very quiet considering it is in a very urban area.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on how you define urban - Seton Hall is in a suburb but close to cities. Dayton is mot a city.

Duquesne? Fordham? Lesley? Drexel? Case? SMU. Tulsa. St Louis University. DePaul. Richmond. Butler. Tulane.

+1 on Drexel but you have to want a five year coop program. I asked their AO what % of kids stayed for the fifth year to do three coops and the AO said about 90%. They added that the coop program is Drexels signature, so if you weren’t into it enough to stay five years, you probably wouldn’t choose Drexel to begin with.

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Syracuse

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Most mid-sized schools are Catholic or Jesuit. I saw someone suggested Miami and Tulane, but those aren't urban...not really. They are in cities, but have well defined campuses and are are separated from the more urban areas. For example, in Boston, BU is urban, BC is not. Miami and Tulane are like BC.

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Anonymous wrote:UMiami, GW, Tulane

UMiami isn’t even remotely urban.

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It depends on whether Urban means in a city or integrated into city blocks. Georgetown and GW are both urban, but only one is integrated into the city blocks.