Anonymous wrote:

Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr are all an easy 15 minute train ride into center city Philadelphia.

This makes them suburban.

Yes -- these are all great schools, but they feel totally suburban. My nephew, a born and bred New Yorker, just graduated from Swarthmore. He loved it, but has said that very few students do much at all in Philly.

Maybe Occidental in LA? I don't know the school or city well enough, but maybe someone else can comment.

Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr are all an easy 15 minute train ride into center city Philadelphia.

This makes them suburban.

Tufts
Trinity

Claremont colleges in California. Reed in Portland. Colorado College, if you consider Colo Springs "urban." Univ of Richmond. Occidental. Trinity in Hartford.

+1 on Macalester

Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr are all an easy 15 minute train ride into center city Philadelphia.

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD

Fantastic school if you want to study the classics and get a PHD or go one to law or Philosophy.

St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD

Barnard! (If female.) Hard to get more urban than that.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/2145604-liberal-arts-colleges-in-near-cities.html

Clark

Trinity
Rhodes

Kalamazoo

Macalester

What are good, more urban LACs? Doesn’t have to be DC level urban, just in a decently sized city.