<p>Rose Hulman in Terre Haute, IN</p>
<p>Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Not much there.</p>
<p>Definitely Yale (New Haven).</p>
<p>Any WI school not in Madison or Milwaukee.</p>
<p>Rutgers has three campuses:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>New Brunswick(this one is decent to good, but isn't spectacular) </p></li>
<li><p>Newark(Ok, but the city has problems and doesn't lend itself so much for colleges)</p></li>
<li><p>Camden(Which is the worst city, period, in this country for a college town )</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Bates in Lewiston, Maine.</p>
<p>^^
Oh, shut up! Lewiston's a great town with tons of internship/volunteering opportunities. I'm so sick of hearing this from stuck-up CT/MA/NY suburban rich kids who can't survive without Starbucks and J Crew around the corner.</p>
<p>Camden (Rutgers).....no doubt.</p>
<p>Is Blacksburg actually that bad ? Was thinking of applying to VT ..</p>
<p>I can never fathom why anyone would say Philadelphia is anything but a great college city. Notwithstanding the bad press about crime, what most outsiders fail to realize is that "Philadelphia" encompasses a very large and diverse geographic area and in fact is an entire county. The crime that you read about, for the most part, occurs outside of center city Philadelphia in areas that students do not have any occasion to be in. The exception to this is Temple University which is located in North Philadelphia but over the last several years, Temple's campus has become very well developed and is like a large town within the surrounding neighborhood. The campus itself is very safe and as long as you use common sense about not walking alone at night (a rule which applies to most college campuses), there shouldn't be a problem. And it is only a short ride by public transportation to Center City Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Penn's campus, while in West Philadelphia, in conjunction with Drexel comprises the University City area of Philadelphia. Tons of great restaurants, a wonderful music venue called World Cafe which combines a restaurant, cabaret and 2 performing areas, loads of shopping and Center City again 10 minutes away. Again, if common sense is used, most people never experience any problems.</p>
<p>Then there is Center City Philadelphia where University of the Arts and other smaller schools are located. No less than 10 performing arts theaters (Broadway Touring companies, local drama productions, ballet, opera, symphonic, pops and other orchestras, a half a dozen great museums, a gizzillion restaurants with outdoor seating in warm weather, music venues, jazz clubs, shopping galore. All within 5-15 minutes walking distance. And again, use common sense after dark and there usually are no problems. What a miserable place to go to school - tell that to the hundreds of students who can be seen at any given time enjoying all that Philadelphia has to offer socially and culturally. Ok, I'm off my soapbox.</p>
<p>Those who say the claremonts have not been here. I live up the street from the colleges and I'd say its awesome here.</p>
<p>Farmville, VA -- Longwood
Walla Walla, WA -- Whitman
In the middle of @#$%$ nowhere -- Deep Springs (but you're not allowed off campus anyway)</p>
<p>Tien:</p>
<p>I thought Claremont was a nice little town, but the students I talked to complained about it, saying that the town didn't seem to care or want college students, and that there wasn't much to do.</p>
<p>But I liked the place.</p>
<p>Walla Walla has become very hot as the new wine country. Lots of good eats and cool shops now.</p>
<p>Binghamton. Terrrrrrrible place, and no good cities close by either.</p>
<p>if it's rural (and safe) it's boring. if it's in a city, there's things to do, but it's dangerous.</p>
<p>personally I'd prefer a seedy city college (like USC) over a middle-of-nowhere college any day of the week.</p>
<p>and I'd say Cornell would be in a miserable town cuz it's so isolated and FREEZING, but one of my favorite movies (Road Trip) takes place in Ithica (well parts of it) and it seems like a pretty damn sweet place.</p>
<p>And Palo Alto is pretty rural, but another good movie, Orange County, takes place (parts of it) at Stanford!</p>
<p>anyhow moral of the story...</p>
<p>a college town is what you make of it. No such thing as bad. Some just aren't as good as others.</p>
<p>^^haha and here's my lecture for today.</p>
<p>IMO Yale & UPenn (...sorry... I only visited 12 colleges)</p>