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Anonymous wrote:Take a look at NC schools. State, Duke, Carolina, etc.

Hardly urban.

NC State is urban.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago. More research opportunities than students. Beautiful campus 15 minutes from downtown.

Agreed. Another great option.

Also, Northwestern

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at NC schools. State, Duke, Carolina, etc.

Hardly urban.

VCU

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago. More research opportunities than students. Beautiful campus 15 minutes from downtown.

Agreed. Another great option.

+100. Went there and enjoyed the closeness of Hyde Park to downtown Chicago, the fact that Chicago offers so many great opportunities for commerce, etc.

Does Columbia College have a nice campus? If so, maybe that would be a good alternative for regular students who want a nice campus near Chicago.

No. School has a lot to offer, but not its campus.

Loyola Chicago is a beautiful school with a solid reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago. More research opportunities than students. Beautiful campus 15 minutes from downtown.

Agreed. Another great option.

+100. Went there and enjoyed the closeness of Hyde Park to downtown Chicago, the fact that Chicago offers so many great opportunities for commerce, etc.

Does Columbia College have a nice campus? If so, maybe that would be a good alternative for regular students who want a nice campus near Chicago.

Anonymous wrote:MIT

For kids who'd love to be in Cambridge but aren't cut out for Harvard or MIT: Lesley University has a campus by Harvard's, is easy to get into, has a low List price, and has generous merit aid. I just know about it by reading about it, but I wish people here talked about it more.

MIT

I went to GA Tech for grad school- that would fit the bill.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago. More research opportunities than students. Beautiful campus 15 minutes from downtown.

Agreed. Another great option.

+100. Went there and enjoyed the closeness of Hyde Park to downtown Chicago, the fact that Chicago offers so many great opportunities for commerce, etc.

Contra earlier comments, I’d argue that Columbia has a great campus and there’s no need to ever go south of 110th or north of 125th if you don’t want to. Those are very mellow sections of the city, no urban hustle and bustle at all. OP, if your kid likes NYC but wants to be able to hide out from the city as well, it’s not a bad choice.

Yale is a thought? New Haven def has a lot going on in terms of food and culture.

Columbia, uchicago, Harvard, penn, Drexel, Carnegie Mellon, case western, UT Austin, Berkeley, Harvey mudd, UCLA, Chapman, LMU, rice, wash University St. Louis. Sorry if some repeats from earlier in thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Does the kid have the stats to aim for Stanford? Can’t think of anywhere that has more opportunities than Silicon Valley for tech.

Doesn’t get more suburban than Dtanford. Luxury mall on one side, golf course on the other. Yuk.

Stanford is totally suburban. If you want urban and California, UCLA, Berkeley, and San Francisco State are all much better options.

Also on the West Coast, I agree with University of Washington (Seattle), Reed, Portland State, university of Oregon (Eugene), and maybe Wilamette. Salem isn’t huge, but it is Oregon’s state capital and lots of students get internships with the government in various ways, which can be interesting. It’s also an hour or so from Portland by car or train so students have reasonable access to that scene.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do studemts co-op and internship at Michigan?

My engineering student at Michigan had internships at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, a startup in Chicago, and will co-op at Dell in Austin this fall.

Where do they co-op locally? Most students don’t travel to co-op. It is too costly and lonely. That is why most co-op schools are urban.

Maybe for lower-end programs, but top programs offer co-ops all over.

There are also a few small companies in the automotive industry around Ann Arbor.