doesn’t work with any of these: Princeton, Rutgers, MIT, Penn, NJIT, Wash. U
For being part of a community, you might be able to do some part-time volunteering/working at some of them during term. If you want to be a real member of the local community you need a college in which you live off-campus- in a neighborhood, not college housing. In other words, a college with a large commuter contingent. Even then, the local community may not see you as being as much of a ‘local’ as you would like them to. Drexel is making a big effort to link town & gown, but it is a ‘help the poor’ initiative.