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At the risk of angering laurrodes, unless you get better scores on the ACT - or very good SAT scores, several of the colleges mentioned will be out of reach. Some LAC’s are test optional - Bates is one that is in a small urban area in Maine. But that may not be your idea of urban. Most highly selective schools will want your non-weighted GPA.
Here are some not-quite-random but not-very-organized thoughts:
BIG CITIES
Macalester (in St. Paul, walkable, in an interesting and quaint neighborhood with a bookstore, shops, cafes and restaurants)
Puget Sound (in Tacoma, which is a nice and diverse small city, walkable, in between two fairly nice urban neighborhoods, and 45 minutes from Seattle)
Occidental (in East LA, which is not very walkable and not close to the most popular LA neighborhoods, but only 10 minutes from Pasadena, which is nice and walkable)
Reed (in Portland, Oregon and supposedly centrally located–haven’t been there)
Lewis & Clark (in Portland, Oregon but supposedly in an attractive but isolated part of town–haven’t been there)
Barnard (Upper West Side of New York City, not sure whether Barnard really qualifies as LAC)
Rhodes (Memphis–haven’t been there)
Morehouse and Spelman (Atlanta–haven’t been to the campuses)
Goucher (Baltimore–haven’t been to campus)
SMALL CITIES
Skidmore (in Saratoga Springs, NY, which is a very interesting small city and close to Albany)
Willamette (Salem, Oregon is the state capital and supposedly fairly nice–haven’t been there)
Lawrence (Appleton is unexpectedly large and interesting, but it’s a couple of hours from Milwaukee and Madison, and farther still from Chicago and Minneapolis)
St. Johns and US Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland is spectacular)
St. Johns (Santa Fe–never been there)
Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo, MI–never been there)
Clark (Worcester, MA–never been there)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs–never been there)
Union College (Schenectedy isn’t very interesting, but it’s very close to Albany, which is somewhat more interesting)
Trinity (Hartford is OK, not great)
Furman (Greenville is not very interesting but it’s an hour from Asheville, which is beautiful)
Connecticut College (New London is dull and the college is not walking distance from the center of the city)
VERY SMALL CITIES (calling these places cities might strike some people as a stretch)
Whitman (never been to Walla Walla, Washington, but it is supposedly nice, although far from any major cities)
Beloit (Beloit, Wisconsin is small and boring but it’s improving rapidly, has a surprisingly attractive downtown with a variety of places to eat and drink, and is not that far from Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago)
Wesleyan (Middletown is small and boring but improving and not that far from New Haven and Hartford)
Bates (see comments on Beloit/Madison and Middletown/Hartford/New Haven; Lewiston and Portland are arguably Maine versions)
Smith (Northampton, MA is nicer and more vibrant than most small cities, in my opinion)
Vassar (Poughkeepsie is pretty dull and far from NYC)
Dickinson (Carlisle is a little run down but seems to have more restaurants than most very small cities on this list)
Knox (never been to Galesburg, Illinois)
Hobart (Geneva is a pleasant small city on the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, not that far from Rochester, Ithaca and Syracuse)
SUBURBS AND SMALL TOWNS NEAR BIG CITIES
Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Haverford (all three are in small, exceptionally boring suburban towns but not far from Philadelphia, which can be reached by commuter train)
Wellesley (in a boring suburb, less accessible to Boston than Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Haverford are to Philadelphia)
Carleton and St. Olaf (Northfield is a quaint college town, though not very exciting, and less than an hour from the Twin Cities)
Oberlin (Oberlin may be the most cultured of the tiny hick college towns across the country and is less than an hour from Cleveland)
Claremont, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer and Scripps (Claremont, California is surprisingly dull given the wealth and education level of the population, and is far from central LA, but a train goes there)
Davidson (never been there, not far from Charlotte)
Bowdoin (not that far from Portland, Maine)