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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hampshire is part of a 5 college community. Free buses among the schools. Lots going on. University of Massachusetts brings in lots of art/music/dance of high quality. Lots to do. Northampton near Smith is fun. The area is now crowded small town. Not exactly rural. But, no, not a city either. Temple university in Philadelphia is very lively, with all sorts of opportunities, interesting student blend and good profs.  However, it's not as hard to get into as the SLACs mentioned above, and doesn't get the nod of status so many seek. They do have some funky  urban vibe and study abroad programs, and they've moved their stellar art program down to the main campus.[/quote]

Hampshire is a good call. When I was at Smith in the 1980s, Hampshire was the place with the crunchiest kids. Northampton these days is pretty funky, too, as PP says.

[b]Temple is another good idea, probably "funkier" than the Drexel suggestion above. Although thinking about Temple, I think more "urban gritty" than "funky" or even "crunchy."[/b] [/quote]

NP here.  How is the surrounding area around Temple these days?  I was on my uni's fencing team and we would compete at Temple each year.  The campus itself was nice but outside of that it looked like a war zone.  This was back in the dark ages (late 80s), so I would hope that it's improved.

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PP here. We were just there for maybe 5 hours a year ago, so my impressions may not be fair/accurate and maybe someone else can fill in.  "Gritty" described the neighborhood we saw although I wouldn't say "war zone." We did notice that the dorms were behind barbed-wire fences. Of course, I went to Penn and that wasn't a great neighborhood in the 1980s, and while it's better now, crime in Philadelphia seemed to travel easily from neighborhood to neighborhood so it's not like you could say that any college in the city is a safe haven.  I love Philly, I do, but you have to acknowledge these things. Re academics, we know a few kids at Temple (they seem to like kids from MoCo high schools and offer some of them generous merit aid) and their parents say they have been impressed by the quality of the teaching, the small classes, and even the nurturing that goes on in Temple's Honors program.[/quote]

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