On my list:
Georgetown, BU, GWU
Must be in the Northeast and urban
prefer residential schools with most students living on campus
Grades? Major? Finances?
looking for a range of schools for reaches (like gtown), matches (BU), and safeties (GW), undecided major
We can’t decipher reaches, matches or safeties until we know your scores, GPA, and so on.
GW doesn’t exactly have a campus.
33 ACT
when i was at GW i loved the school and thought there was a campus feel
Why do you keep starting this same thread over and over? You’ve received many answers on the others, especially considering the minimal information you provide.
I really disagree with you about GW having a “campus feel.”
Some classic urban schools in the Northeast: American University, Northeastern, University of Rochester, NYU, Fordham, Drexel, Temple
GW is not a safety for anyone these days, so be careful.
@infiniteblest BU and GW both don’t really have much of a campus and they are not enclosed but I meant more that there was a sense of unity and community at that schools if that makes sense
I… think you should visit again. I find GW to feel very scattered and have less community/unity than almost any campus I’ve visited. I mean, it isn’t a commuter school. But I think people seem to be “doing their own thing” a lot more than on a traditional campus.
GW isn’t likely a safety.
Assuming your unweighted GPA is 3.8+ to go along with that 33, here are some northeastern urban schools with actual/standard campuses. I’ll include the mid-atlantic:
Reach:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Penn
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Tufts (urban/suburban)
Match:
U of Rochester (medium city)
Boston College (urban/suburban)
Brandeis (urban/suburban)
Trinity (the LAC)
Northeastern
Villanova
Fordham
Syracuse
SUNY at Buffalo (low match if OOS)
Rutgers (match if OOS)
Safety (but show interest!):
Loyola (MD)
Temple
Hofstra
Drexel
St. John’s
Seton Hall
U of Scranton
Providence
URI
LaSalle
If you will allow for more small-city environments, you could add:
Amherst - reach
Vassar - reach
Wesleyan- reach
Bates - low reach/high match
This list is a start.
If you’re a girl, I’d say check out Barnard College.
If you think you might want to do engineering, architecture or art, check out Cooper Union.
If you think you might want to study engineering, check out Stevens Institute of Technology.
If you happen to be a religious Jew, I’d check out Yeshiva University.
I’d also recommend the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University.
If match is truly 50 50 in your mind. The lists make sense. If you think of match as I probably will get in. Unless matched with great ecs recs and essays/supplements a few schools have moved up the difficult continuum the past two years
Northeastern and especially BC are high matches/low reaches and possibly UR depending on gender and major. Take a few minutes to peruse the 2022 ed and rd threads. Students with as good and better raw statistics were left scratching their heads and with waitlist and rejections.