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

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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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

Villanova is definitely in the suburbs and the train line to Philly is shutting down next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

Villanova is definitely in the suburbs and the train line to Philly is shutting down next year.

oh, wow - that's too bad. I'm assuming there are other options like busses?

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again - some schools are close to cities so that a student could get there easily if they wished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GW?
American?
Loyola in Chicago?

Where else?

St. Louis University
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of Colorado - Denver

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

Northwestern isn’t in Chicago. It’s in Evanston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

Northwestern isn’t in Chicago. It’s in Evanston.

I know. Same with Villanova. But to most people it’s Chicago/philly. They’re both less than 15 miles from downtown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s a silly way to look at it. That’s like saying northwestern isn’t in Chicago or Villanova isn’t in Philly.

Northwestern isn’t in Chicago. It’s in Evanston.

I know. Same with Villanova. But to most people it’s Chicago/philly. They’re both less than 15 miles from downtown.

15 miles to downtown isn’t remotely the same. If you can’t walk down the street or take a short Uber (or bus or subway) to get to cool neighborhoods, then it’s not the city.

Evanston feels closer because it’s right on the subway. Villanova is definitely further out…nobody who attends says they are in Philly and many students barely go into Philly. It’s a 45 minute ride via public transport.

Someone mentioned Drexel which is really what OP is talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rollins

uh- not a big city at all

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Simmons
Temple
Emerson

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I have a friend whose child was set to go to UArts in Philly - until it just abruptly closed. She is a dance major. Anyway, lots of other dance programs extended admissions to the displaced students. She was already fairly local, so really only considered Drexel and Temple. She wound up at Temple and has been incredibly happy there. I think you just need to be a bit street smart as well as aware of the area to avoid the more dangerous parts of town that are off campus.

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My kid who wanted to attend college in a city considered all of the following and applied to some of them:

Temple
Pitt
CWRU
University of Washington
Fordham
Loyola Marymount
Occidental
McGill
BU

"good but not top," depending on how you are defining that and on the likely major, might need to strike some of those schools but others would be probably be likelies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GW?
American?
Loyola in Chicago?

Where else?

St. Louis University
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of Colorado - Denver

OP asked for small to medium colleges. University of Minnesota is neither of those

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Macalester

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University of Dayton-Dayton
St Thomas-St Paul
Creighton- Omaha
Marquette-Milwaukee
SLU- St Louis