Which schools outpace their location and vice versa?

[Anonymous]

Which schools are held back by their city and which cities are way better than their schools?

For example - dc drags up Georgetown. If Georgetown was in some Midwest town, it wouldn’t be a top 25 school like Notre Dame.

Conversely rice and Houston or cmu and Pittsburgh.

[Anonymous]

Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Carleton--all great schools in less-desirable locations.

[Anonymous]

South Bend drags Notre Dame down.

Signed,
An ND Grad

[Anonymous]

Probably not Penn, but Philadelphia drags down Drexel and Temple due to their location. Baltimore certainly drags down Johns Hopkins.

Conversely, Boston props up Boston University and Northeastern, while New York props up NYU and Fordham, but not necessarily Columbia.

There are a lot of mid-sized schools in depressing towns in New York and Pennsylvania that would have higher profiles if they were in nicer areas either in New England or the South. Hobart/William Smith, Bucknell, and Washington & Jefferson come to mind.

[Anonymous]

Washington elevates GW and AU. New Orleans is a big plus for Tulane. A remote, isolated location hurts many SLACs. Gritty locations like Waterville and Lewiston/Auburn are negatives for Colby and Bates. Same with Worcester, Mass., for Clark U.

[Anonymous]

And yet, some of these more remote areas help the campuses have a distinct feel (compared to urban campuses) and the lower cost-of-living helps their finances.

[Anonymous]

Boston pulls up Tufts and Williamsburg drags down W&M

[Anonymous]

Cornell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet, some of these more remote areas help the campuses have a distinct feel (compared to urban campuses) and the lower cost-of-living helps their finances.

Yet Notre Dame likes to pretend it is on the same financial level as Georgetown or Boston College (MUCH more expensive cities) and charge equally exorbitant tuition when, yes, of course, cost of living in South Bend is MUCH, much less. Blegh. Get over yourself, ND. (And I'm from a big, multigenerational, ND family.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston pulls up Tufts and Williamsburg drags down W&M

What's bad about Williamsburg? Too touristy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably not Penn, but Philadelphia drags down Drexel and Temple due to their location. Baltimore certainly drags down Johns Hopkins.

Conversely, Boston props up Boston University and Northeastern, while New York props up NYU and Fordham, but not necessarily Columbia.

There are a lot of mid-sized schools in depressing towns in New York and Pennsylvania that would have higher profiles if they were in nicer areas either in New England or the South. Hobart/William Smith, Bucknell, and Washington & Jefferson come to mind.

Bucknell was the first school that came to my mind when I saw the thread title.

[Anonymous]

Yale-New Haven and Brown-Providence, although both cities are nicer than they used to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet, some of these more remote areas help the campuses have a distinct feel (compared to urban campuses) and the lower cost-of-living helps their finances.

Yet Notre Dame likes to pretend it is on the same financial level as Georgetown or Boston College (MUCH more expensive cities) and charge equally exorbitant tuition when, yes, of course, cost of living in South Bend is MUCH, much less. Blegh. Get over yourself, ND. (And I'm from a big, multigenerational, ND family.)

Don't disagree. I'm the PP you responded to. I was actually thinking of Grinnell, Hamilton, Carleton when I posted this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet, some of these more remote areas help the campuses have a distinct feel (compared to urban campuses) and the lower cost-of-living helps their finances.

Yet Notre Dame likes to pretend it is on the same financial level as Georgetown or Boston College (MUCH more expensive cities) and charge equally exorbitant tuition when, yes, of course, cost of living in South Bend is MUCH, much less. Blegh. Get over yourself, ND. (And I'm from a big, multigenerational, ND family.)

Don't disagree. I'm the PP you responded to. I was actually thinking of Grinnell, Hamilton, Carleton when I posted this.

Ahh, I see. Yes, would agree with you re these campuses.

[Anonymous]

Grinnell! Middle of nowhere Iowa.