Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student

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Emerson

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It depends how far down the list you want to go. And whether it has to be directly downtown.

Loyola Marymount and Chapman come to mind near LA

There are so many schools with access to NYC. Hofstra and Adelphi are on train lines. Could also consider places like Pace or even Hunter in Manhattan.

My kid chose a school that had train access just steps off campus to Boston-it’s not really good enough for this list, but just saying, there are schools of all kinds with access to cities.

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Rollins

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Loyola New Orleans - next to Tulane with some campus sharing privileges
Occidental (LA)
Rollins (Orlando)
Emerson College (Boston)

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Anonymous wrote:It depends how far down the list you want to go. And whether it has to be directly downtown.

Loyola Marymount and Chapman come to mind near LA

There are so many schools with access to NYC. Hofstra and Adelphi are on train lines. Could also consider places like Pace or even Hunter in Manhattan.

My kid chose a school that had train access just steps off campus to Boston-it’s not really good enough for this list, but just saying, there are schools of all kinds with access to cities.

My DS liked Hunter and got accepted there OOS, but housing is a real issue, there is very little of it, even less with the renovation of one of the few dorms, and there is no meal plan. It is called City University of New York for a reason. You can work around these issues, but it would take a special 18 year old to do it, probably someone with family in NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends how far down the list you want to go. And whether it has to be directly downtown.

Loyola Marymount and Chapman come to mind near LA

There are so many schools with access to NYC. Hofstra and Adelphi are on train lines. Could also consider places like Pace or even Hunter in Manhattan.

My kid chose a school that had train access just steps off campus to Boston-it’s not really good enough for this list, but just saying, there are schools of all kinds with access to cities.

My DS liked Hunter and got accepted there OOS, but housing is a real issue, there is very little of it, even less with the renovation of one of the few dorms, and there is no meal plan. It is called City University of New York for a reason. You can work around these issues, but it would take a special 18 year old to do it, probably someone with family in NYC.

Completely fair assessment. Just saying there are plenty of options, depending on what you are looking for in a school

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Anonymous wrote:Loyola New Orleans - next to Tulane with some campus sharing privileges
Occidental (LA)
Rollins (Orlando)
Emerson College (Boston)

Occidental is not in a big city. It’s in Eagle Rock, a small suburb of 34,000 in the furthest northeast section of Los Angeles County next to Pasadena. Oxy likes to say it’s in LA proper, but it isn’t. It would take a car, grit and time to drive into LA from Oxy

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Oglethorpe University (ATL)
College of Charleston

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OP, "good but not great" is too vague. Please provide unweighted GPA, test score, and # of APs for a rough estimate of the student's competitiveness. For example, 3.4 would be very different from 3.7, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends how far down the list you want to go. And whether it has to be directly downtown.

Loyola Marymount and Chapman come to mind near LA

There are so many schools with access to NYC. Hofstra and Adelphi are on train lines. Could also consider places like Pace or even Hunter in Manhattan.

My kid chose a school that had train access just steps off campus to Boston-it’s not really good enough for this list, but just saying, there are schools of all kinds with access to cities.

Chapman is not in LA, it's in Orange county. Oxy and Loyola Marymount are in LA and probably fit the bill for what OP is looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loyola New Orleans - next to Tulane with some campus sharing privileges
Occidental (LA)
Rollins (Orlando)
Emerson College (Boston)

Occidental is not in a big city. It’s in Eagle Rock, a small suburb of 34,000 in the furthest northeast section of Los Angeles County next to Pasadena. Oxy likes to say it’s in LA proper, but it isn’t. It would take a car, grit and time to drive into LA from Oxy

Grit and time?? It’s not Pomona or Chapman! It’s probably a 10-15 minute drive to downtown. It’s in the city of Los Angeles. LA has a suburban nature to it - like the San Fernando Valley, and much of the Westside, but make no mistake these areas are in city of LA, and so is Occidental.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, "good but not great" is too vague. Please provide unweighted GPA, test score, and # of APs for a rough estimate of the student's competitiveness. For example, 3.4 would be very different from 3.7, etc.

Lolz

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Chatham
Point Park

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Simmons
Emerson
Loyola Chicago
DePaul
UF
Albany
Cincinnati
Louisville
UKentucky

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, "good but not great" is too vague. Please provide unweighted GPA, test score, and # of APs for a rough estimate of the student's competitiveness. For example, 3.4 would be very different from 3.7, etc.

Lolz

Why is that funny?