city colleges with strong academics?

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<p>For large merit scholarships, you may want to look at these lists:</p>

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<p>Take a good long look at UPitt - your stats could get significant merit with a strong bioE program that offers lots of research opportunities as an undergrad. NIH funding is huge (FY’13 $318MM) which allows undergrads to get involved early. I have 2 at Pitt for engineering now, one ChemE, one BioE. CMU was also mentioned which my dd also considered - but their BioE program is a double major with ChemE and not a stand-alone major and also, for finaid, they will only guarantee to meet need if you apply ED. Basically, there was a gap of 10K between our demonstrated need and what they would provide finaid for since dd applied RD. <a href=“http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DH,27,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH,RI&fy=2013&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid=[/url]”>http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DH,27,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH,RI&fy=2013&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The St. George Campus at the University of Toronto is in downtown Toronto if you are interested. I really can’t think of anymore elite American urban schools (downtown in big cities) that have not been mentioned, although of the schools mentioned if you could get in I would think Columbia would be awesome for you since it is in New York. Still, getting into an ivy league is always a reach.</p>

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<p>Warbler, LA may have trains but they don’t have subways.</p>

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This must be a new improved LA. I still remember my wife being stuck in a traffic jam heading to Redondo Beach to meet her brother with our two girls screaming in the car. She got off the freeway after three hours to wait.</p>

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<p>LA has 2 subway lines actually along with 4 light rail lines.</p>

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<p>Ah, I stand corrected. The Red line was just going in when we left Southern California and didn’t have any underground segments.</p>

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<p>Northeastern University in Boston would be a good choice. </p>

<p>[Students</a> found biomedical engineering group | news @ Northeastern](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/03/biomedical-engineering-group/]Students”>Students found biomedical engineering group - Northeastern Global News)</p>

<p>[Department</a> of Chemical Engineering | Northeastern University](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/che/]Department”>Department of Chemical Engineering - Northeastern University)</p>