Anonymous wrote:Might want to look at Tufts. Very close to downtown Boston and Cambridge.

+1 Somerville has become a hipster haven

Where do studemts co-op and internship at Michigan?

Anonymous wrote:University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison is probably my favorite city I've ever been to - such a great vibe. And of course the academics are top notch as well.

If it wasn’t covered in feet of snow from November to March. I rather go to school there in the summer.

UW-Madison, Michigan, UT-Austin. The trifecta of amazing college towns.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison is probably my favorite city I've ever been to - such a great vibe. And of course the academics are top notch as well.

Anonymous wrote:DC is a high-stats STEM kid looking for the right mix of urban amenities (food, music, culture) and an actual campus to the college. For example, NYU is too urban in the sense that its just a bunch of buildings with a flag that say "NYU". Location is not a factor, but a strong STEM program is needed, and research opps tend to be more plentiful near cities. What do you recommend?

TIA!

Add my vote for Michigan. Food (a good mix of unique places and familiar chains), music (a regular stop for college type bands) and culture (as a college town Ann Arbor has more culture than a typical small city). The nearby Detroit area, as the auto capitol of the US, offers a lot of STEM related research opps in areas directly and indirectly related to the automotive field. However, the Engineering School is on the north campus, which is a bus ride from the activity on the main campus. The winter weather can also get a bit depressing. But overall Michigan probably best fits what you are looking for in a school. Good luck and Go Blue!

GMU

Johns Hopkins

McGill.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell / Michigan / MIT

Cornell isn’t really urban in my opinion.

Ann Arbor is a college town and really nice but I wouldn’t say it is urban. Detroit sucks.

The OP did not say "Urban" they said "urban amenities (food, music, culture)"

There is a food, music element in Ithaca and Ann Arbor.


Another area to think about might be University of Cincinnati.


A PP mentioned Emory - although you fly into Atlanta to get there - it is not "urban amenities (food, music, culture)"

Yeah, agreed. Ann Arbor is a proper small city -- it has 115,000 people in it (all of whom can fit in the Big House, btw! ) I think it fits OP's bill pretty well.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell / Michigan / MIT

Cornell isn’t really urban in my opinion.

Ann Arbor is a college town and really nice but I wouldn’t say it is urban. Detroit sucks.

The OP did not say "Urban" they said "urban amenities (food, music, culture)"

There is a food, music element in Ithaca and Ann Arbor.


Another area to think about might be University of Cincinnati.


A PP mentioned Emory - although you fly into Atlanta to get there - it is not "urban amenities (food, music, culture)"

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, MIT, Columbia - once inside the gates, doesn't feel like NYC.

Disagree on Columbia. Felt cramped like sardines. One nice little area. That is it.

Northwestern is in Evanston, which is a very dense suburb with its own downtown (think Bethesda, but with actual charm) just outside of Chicago. One of the main subway lines extends to Evanston as well.

Harvard, MIT, Columbia - once inside the gates, doesn't feel like NYC.

University of Texas - Austin