<p>I am aiming to go to the best school I can get into, while also liking the campus and the environment of the people I will be surrounded by. I am looking mainly at the northeast, but I'm open to different options. My problem is that I do not know many good colleges in the northeast or throughout the United States, aside from the Ivies. My father attended Columbia and he loved it, so that is definitely one of my top choices. The only problem is that people have said it doesn't have much of a "campus life" which is something I really want. Basically, I just want to know, hopefully from experience, what you guys think are some good top-tier schools and how your experience there was. Please explain! Thanks</p>
<p>Try starting off with identifying what you want to major in, your academic profile, school size, etc. There are many, many amazing schools in the Northeast. You’re going to have to be more specific.</p>
<p>Grab a US News, highlight the schools in the northeast ranked in the top 50, visit.</p>
<p>What do your stats look like? You need to know what schools you could reasonably get into. There are amazing colleges all over the northeast, so that shouldn’t be an issue.</p>
<p>I want to eventually go to law school- so maybe majoring in political science or history. </p>
<p>Stats: GPA 4.0 unweighted
Haven’t taken the SAT yet, I just want to know some good schools from people with experience there, or from people who know of the schools. If I just wanted to know of good schools, I would obviously pick up a newspaper and read it.</p>
<p>People really can’t suggest schools without knowing a lot more about your interests both socially and academically. I’d suggest you go to the library and pick up a copy of some college guides - 373 Best is good one - and read through the descriptions to see what strikes your interest. Make a list of considerations that are important to you. For example, do you think you’d like Greek system? Urban or rural? etc. Better yet - visit a few schools near you and see what you like and don’t about them and use that to identify what criteria are important to you. There are just way too many good schools in the Northeast for open ended suggestions to be much help.</p>
<p>Any Ivy, Amherst, Williams, a bunch of others.</p>
<p>In addition to the Ivies, you should review the NESCAC and Patriot League schools.</p>
<p>Other than the Ivies, the best schools in the NE are (and my opinion of what is in the NE ,as a Texan, is a little different than some people’s):</p>
<p>NYU (for business and arts)
Boston College (business)
Middlebury
WIlliams
Amherst
Bowdoin
Tufts (engineering)
Johns Hopkins (pre-med type majors)
Georgetown (mainly for govt. related majors)
MIT obviously
Carnegie Mellon (mainly for tech/engineering/math/science type majors)
Swarthmore
Wesleyan
Haverford</p>
<p>Note that no particular major is required to apply to law school. Political science and English are popular majors among LSAT takers, but those from some other majors like math and philosophy tend to do better on average.</p>
<p>Upper Tier of the Northeast:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Darmouth
Brown
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Princeton
Boston College
Tufts</p>
<p>Middle Tier:
Rutgers
NYU
Villanova
UConn
Syracuse
The College of New Jersey
Penn State
Pitt
UMass Amherst
U of Delaware
Connecticut College
Boston U</p>
<p>Not including LAC’s…just naming a few. Obviously there’s great disparity within the tiers…</p>
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<p>You are looking for input from a totally random group of people who happen to frequent CC AND happen to have deemed this thread to be worth responding to. That input will be of no value to you. There are dozens of great colleges in the northeast, each with its pluses and minuses. Someone whose kid went to X University will chime in that it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the ten CC’ers whose offspring hated the place may not even notice this thread because the title doesn’t mention their alma mater. Meanwhile, none of the handful of people who respond will happen to mention Y University, which may be the ideal school for you. This is simply not a useful way to investigate colleges. I recommend that you read the guidebooks, select some schools based on all your criteria, and then visit their individual CC forums to pose specific questions you may have.</p>
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<p>This question is useless as it doesn’t specify what it is you’re exactly looking for in a college besides “campus life.” Do you want small, big, medium? Do you want D1 sports? What majors are you looking into? What are your cost constraints? LAC or Research University? Urban, suburban, or rural?</p>
<p>Best college in North East are,</p>
<p>Tufts (engineering)
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown (mainly for govt. related majors)
MIT obviously
Yale
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Visit this college site at internet</p>
<p>Not sure what defines a “good” school, but I have checked out and loved NYU, Barnard, BU, Northeastern, Sarah Lawrence and Simmons (: I also have a couple of lower ranked safeties, Pace and Suffolk.
I’m a city girl if you couldn’t tell ^-^</p>
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<p>The east coast is mainly good for two things: really good privates (ivies, Hopkins, MIT etc.), and really good LACs.(Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, etc.)</p>
<p>This is opposed to the west coast emphasizes more on public universities, including elite ones (Cal, UCLA, Uwashington, etc.) but it has its share of LACs (Claremonts, Reed, etc.) and privates (Stanford, Caltech, USC, etc.)</p>
<p>the east coast has many decent privates, and most of them would provide you with a fine education.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Best Northeastern Colleges, 2011 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (9780375429927): Princeton Review: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Northeastern-Colleges-Edition-College-Admissions/dp/0375429921]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Northeastern-Colleges-Edition-College-Admissions/dp/0375429921)</p>
<p>More opinions:
[Best</a> Northeast Colleges - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/specialfeatures/2011/08/03/best-northeast-colleges/]Best”>Best Northeast Colleges)</p>