Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 12:00     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College.



WashU and Tufts are about as tough admits as Northwestern. Second DePaul, Pitt, Emory, Boston College. Also Boston University and University of Portland if willing to go West Coast.


WashU and Tufts certainly are selective, but their acceptance rates at 13% and 15% respectively are quite lower than Northwestern’s 6.8%.


*higher
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:57     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College.



WashU and Tufts are about as tough admits as Northwestern. Second DePaul, Pitt, Emory, Boston College. Also Boston University and University of Portland if willing to go West Coast.


WashU and Tufts certainly are selective, but their acceptance rates at 13% and 15% respectively are quite lower than Northwestern’s 6.8%.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:52     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College.



WashU and Tufts are about as tough admits as Northwestern. Second DePaul, Pitt, Emory, Boston College. Also Boston University and University of Portland if willing to go West Coast.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:49     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:42     Subject: Re:Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Not limited to NE:

Wash U
Emory
American
Fordham
Rhodes
Loyola Marymount (LA)
Colorado College
GW
SMU
Reed
Tulane
Case Western
Boston U
Vanderbilt
Rice
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:42     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Loyola in Chicago
DePaul also in Chicago


+1 DePaul's location is pretty great.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:40     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Macalester
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:38     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Tufts immediately comes to mind, although of course that's not much easier to get into than NU.

Rice

Georgetown

Boston College

Brandeis

Villanova

Santa Clara

University of Miami

American
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:34     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:DC loves Northwestern but it is long shot. What are schools in NE and upper MW which have the same vibe as Northwestern in terms of close proximity to large urban area?


University of Minnesota is urban.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:30     Subject: Re:Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Respectfully recommend using Google maps for this. Choose a larger town or a city and Google can be searched for colleges in the area - there are a lot around Boston, parts of New Hampshire and Vermont, Ohio of course and Michigan. I guess what I am saying is choose a city and then search for colleges within 30-50 miles or whatever range you want.


How can you be close to a "large urban area" in New Hampshire or Vermont?
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:30     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
How much less selective? Some to check out, at various levels of selectivity, various vibes, from suburban/edge of urban to slightly more urban: WashU, Vandy, Tufts, Case, U Rochester, Emory, BC, Brandeis, Villanova, American, Gonzaga, Loyola Chicago obviously, Univ of Denver.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:29     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:DC loves Northwestern but it is long shot. What are schools in NE and upper MW which have the same vibe as Northwestern in terms of close proximity to large urban area?


Do you specifically mean near, but not in, a large city?

Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was Harvard, since it's in Cambridge, near Boston, similar to Northwestern being in Evanston, near Chicago. But of course that is an even longer shot than Northwestern.

There are plenty of schools in the Boston and Philadelphia suburbs, but most are smaller than Northwestern with a different vibe. Maybe Tufts (outside Boston) and Villanova (that's Mid-Atlantic)? And then there are other schools that are in cities rather than the nearby suburbs like Boston University, Case Western, and Pitt.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:24     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Loyola in Chicago
DePaul also in Chicago
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:24     Subject: Re:Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
Respectfully recommend using Google maps for this. Choose a larger town or a city and Google can be searched for colleges in the area - there are a lot around Boston, parts of New Hampshire and Vermont, Ohio of course and Michigan. I guess what I am saying is choose a city and then search for colleges within 30-50 miles or whatever range you want.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2021 11:20     Subject: Recommendation for less selective school with same urban proximity as Northwestern?
DC loves Northwestern but it is long shot. What are schools in NE and upper MW which have the same vibe as Northwestern in terms of close proximity to large urban area?