<p>what are some of the best urban colleges that still have some gothic buildings and a nice campus?</p>
<p>I've applied to the university of chicago and marquette, but I'm looking for a college somewhere inbetween these two.... one not soooo hard, and one not tooo easy.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Wash U prides themselves on their beautiful gothic buildings (but just as hard if not harder than Chicago) Washington</a> University in St. Louis</p>
<p>USC has a beautiful campus (not sure it's exactly gothic - but very east coast "campus-like"). Area surrounding not so great but campus itself is a nice oasis....</p>
<p>trinity in hartford</p>
<p>Case Western and Pittsburgh would fall between those two. Not sure how much Gothic architecture they have, however.</p>
<p>I'm gonna endorse MilwDad's suggestion of Pittsburgh!</p>
<p>Washu isn't that urban, more suburban. </p>
<p>I would say</p>
<p>St. Louis University Bilikens (good safety school)
Macalaster College Fighting Scots
Carnegie Mellon University Tartans</p>
<p>Penn (10 char)</p>
<p>U of Washington, Seattle
Boston College
Boston University (not much of a campus, in my opinion)
Columbia University/ Barnard College
U of Maryland, College Park (nice campus; surrounding area so-so)
Duke University</p>
<p>The University of Pittsburgh is an interesting school. Formerly a private school, it is now a Pennsylvania public university.
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is suburban/urban, but no Gothic architecture.
Yale University.</p>
<p>Definitely Boston College, it's kind of on the border of suburban and urban, but it definitely has the gothic architecture.</p>
<p>Gothic, did anybody say "GOTHIC?" LOL</p>
<p>You need to look at Fordham-Rose Hill (Bronx) main campus. Its stunningly gorgeous and gothic. 90 acres of lush green lawns, sports complex, football field, really old and really cool buildings that are meticulously kept up, a gorgeous church on campus, and just a fabulous school.</p>
<p>UChicago is perhaps the quintessential gothic campus, however.</p>
<p>UPenn, Yale, and Columbia are the best urban schools ... sorta obvious</p>
<p>thanks guys.....this has been pretty helpful</p>
<p>i got accepted into slu and i've applied to fordham and boston college....all seem to be beautiful campuses in the middle of great cities.....i've never visited boston college but i just hope it's more urban than suburban</p>
<p>What about the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities? It's right between Marquette and UChicago academic wise (of course WAY closer to Marquette on those terms).</p>
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U of Washington, Seattle
Boston College
Boston University (not much of a campus, in my opinion)
Columbia University/ Barnard College
U of Maryland, College Park (nice campus; surrounding area so-so)
Duke University
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<p>UMCP has Georgian style architecture...and it not in an urban environment...
BU doesn't have Gothic architecture...but the campus is there...just looks highly integrated with the city.</p>
<p>Columbia and Penn, while both among the best urban schools in the nation, are harder to get into than UChicago, not less. So they don't satisfy the OP's needs so much....</p>
<p>However, Columbia is almost entirely beaux-arts and neoclassical. The only gothic building is the Teachers' College...and the nearby Church of St. John the Divine...</p>
<p>Penn has some gothic, but it also has victorian, modernist (in varying degrees of terribleness), and postmodern styles.</p>
<p>Good luck to the OP -- you've got some great schools on your list.</p>
<p>My D goes to Marquette and loves the enclosed campus in the city. Just a side note: of course it's not the U of C, but depending on your major, Marquette isn't across the board easy. Engineering, health sciences -- they can be very challenging. As a whole, I don't think the academics there are all that different from Fordham or even BC. For every slacker, there are tons of smart kids. There is also a good Honors program. Same for SLU (which she also considered).</p>
<p>UW Seattle, Rice, Columbia, and MIT/Harvard/BU/BC are the only top universities I can think of where the city is as unique and fun as the campus</p>
<p>oh, sorry, didn't see Gothic building requirement.
U Chicago is probably the best bet, though I don't see why someone would pick a college based on architecture.</p>
<p>Rice U - not gothic but certainly urban (as in in an urban oasis.) Great place. :)</p>
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Case Western and Pittsburgh would fall between those two. Not sure how much Gothic architecture they have, however.
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<p>Gothic-wise, Pitt has the Cathedral of Learning, the tallest gothic structure in the US and the tallest educational building in the western hemisphere.</p>
<p>The rest of Pitt's campus is a mishmash of styles from gothic-neo gothic to neoclassical to modern.</p>
