Best English schools in/near city?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi, daughter is looking for good english programs...preferably medium to large schools. Had a good list together, then discovered during a summer tour of colleges that she really loved city schools. That took most LAC's off my list. Unfortunately, BU and GWU, her favorites, are not known for English programs. </p>

<p>She has a 31 ACT, 630 SAT math, 680 CR, and 710 writing. On ACT, got a 36 in reading. 4.2 weighted, 3.97 UW, 8th in class of 263. </p>

<p>AP American History: 5</p>

<p>Waiting for scores on AP's:</p>

<p>AP English Literature
AP Euro History</p>

<p>To take Senior Year: 3 more AP classes. </p>

<p>As far as extracurriculars,</p>

<p>Honor Society, two years (officer senior year)
Freshman mentor, two years
English tutor
Newspaper, two years (editor both years)
Cross-country, four years
Lacrosse, JV one year, varsity three years</p>

<p>As far as summer stuff, nothing too exciting. Just jobs, lots of nanny work to make money. </p>

<p>Does anyone have any info on city schools that have good English programs? Suburban schools near cities are fine, too.</p>

<p>So far, our list has too many reaches, not enough matches:</p>

<p>Boston College
Boston University
George Washington University
Northwestern University
University of Virginia
College of William and Mary
Claremont McKenna (I realize it dosen't really fit in here!)
University of Michigan, maybe</p>

<p>Our safeties are University of Colorado-Boulder (our state school) and maybe University of Wisconsin. Any ideas on above, and chances of admittance, would be greatly appreciated. I am very new to this!</p>

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<p>Almost any good university is going to have a capable English department, full of bright professors from excellent grad schools. Boston University and George Washington would be fine. Colorado and Wisconsin are great matches/safeties.</p>

<p>There’s nothing much urban about Virginia or William and Mary. Maybe substitute Wake Forst and Vanderbilt for these two?</p>

<p>Villanova, Marquette, Tulane, and U of Miami are worth checking out.</p>

<p>Also interesting would be Indiana, Vermont, Iowa, and Kansas, all of which are in interesting college “towns” (actually smallish cities).</p>

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<p>thanks for the ideas. I did have Wake Forest, Tulane and Miami on my list to look at eventually. Will forget Marquette and Villanova due to Jesuit influence (turned daughter off; but she wants to keep BC on list because of the Boston angle!) Vanderbilt a little too southern for a small-town mountain girl, maybe. </p>

<p>How 'bout Rice or Emory?</p>

<p>thanks for the info on the publics in college towns. Iowa would make hawkeye hubby happy! :)</p>

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<p>Try the university of Pittsburgh</p>

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<p>Villanova is not Jesuit but Augustinian. List of the 28 Jesuit colleges: <a href=“http://www.sporcle.com/games/jesuit_colleges_results.php[/url]”>http://www.sporcle.com/games/jesuit_colleges_results.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Does money matter? You don’t mention it. GWU is very expensive and not generous with FA (at least in my experience). Some of the others are the same…pretty pricey.</p>

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<p>dkloos- Just curious, what specifically about the Jesuit order turned your daughter away from Marquette? Or was it just Catholic influence in general?</p>

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<p>thanks everyone, for the ideas and thoughts. Ebeeee, yes, money does matter. We won’t qualify for need-based, so I need to consider availability of merit money. I know that GWU and BC and Northwestern are very expensive; am hoping that maybe she can get some $$ at BU. THat is why I was a bit bummed that the LAC’s no longer appealed to my daughter, given that there were some where I was sure she could qualify for some merit $$. (like a Denison or Kenyon, no longer on the table).</p>

<p>Daggerman, I guess it is because, although Catholic, my daughter has always questioned her faith. She doesn’t want to have to take theology classes and deal with any perceived pressure to go to service while at college. At the BC session where 6 students joined a QA session, many brought up the religious aspect repeatedly. That was a bit of a turnoff, although, as I said, she would be willing to ignore if she got in, only because of Boston! Neverthemind, BC gives only 15 merit scholarships, and she won’t be one of them. So moot point.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt really isn’t that Southern. It’s just located in a Southern city.</p>

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<p>Did you look at Rutgers? It is easy to get to NYC and Philadelphia. Boston and Washington DC are also possible weekend excursions.
I believe they have a strong English program.</p>

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<p>I know you said that you like medium to large schools but I couldn’t help but recommend Colorado College although i’m sure you have already considered it tho bc it is your home state. It is hard to resist the block plan and the urban campus nestled in amongst a beautiful location.</p>

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<p>thanks, we did look at Colorado College, just to get a feel for the size and feel of a small college. Because she has it in her head to go out of state, she found herself not impressed. (many people in this state quote a fact that half of the kids who go out of state come back soph year cuz they find that they miss Colorado and our nice weather. No idea if that is true or not!)</p>

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<p>Angel_sushi, is it not very southern? I thought it was susposed to be pretty greek, wearing pearls and dresses to games and all that? Maybe a rumor I picked up somewhere along the line?</p>

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<p>I heard about that too, dkloos. And those ideas seem pretty substantiated (to me anyways) based on the people I know who go there…</p>

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<p>Iowa is in Iowa City, which as it’s name would indicate, is a city.</p>