<p>Does anyone know of any schools right outside of NYC with convenient access to the city but with a nice suburban, residential campus?</p>
<p>Same thing with other cities like DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. Any info is helpful. Thanks!</p>
<p>Intended major? Stats? How much can your family afford? There are a ton of schools that fit that description, but without knowing where you fall in terms of other applicants, recommendations can range from Pace University to Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Well I’m honestly looking for any school, reach match or safety. I’m going to be a junior so the only stats I have is my 192 PSAT score which will probably improve and probably a 97 unweighted gpa (not sure what that is on a 4.0 scale). Lots of AP classes in the future. Last year I got a 5 on AP world. EC- basketball, soccer, started and president of cancer awareness club, part time job, etc. BIGGEST FACTOR IS FINANCIAL AID. Need based or merit. I think our income’s around 60-75000 because my mom’s on disability because she has cancer.</p>
<p>For Philadelphia, there’s Swarthmore, Haverford (and if you are female) Bryn Mawr, all suburban LACs which share resources and have easy access to the city.</p>
<p>Do you only want school outside of the city? (i.e., not Georgetown and American which both have campuses but are in DC?)</p>
<p>I have some ideas but they may not be appropriate because of your interests. Are you looking for a tech major or something else?</p>
<p>I’ll probably go in undecided but am leaning towards communications. I’m interested in schools in the city too but I know of pretty much all of them so I was looking for some schools I hadn’t heard of yet.</p>
<p>St. John’s University has a very pretty campus and is close to NYC for weekends. They may give you merit aid if you are a top student.</p>
<p>I’d definitely look into Fordham. The Rose Hill campus is in the Bronx is a gated campus with amazing grounds, beautiful old gothic architecture, great dorms, and easy access to Manhattan by a university run van (the ram van), the subway, and/or Metro North. With your GPA/PSAT’s you could qualify for a good bit of merit aid there. </p>
<p>I agree, if you want a LAC look at Swarthmore, Haverford in Philadelphia. And you can look at Villanova as well for a mid-size university. In Boston off the top of my head, there are Tufts, BC and Brandeis.</p>
<p>For NYC, Drew University in Madison, NJ is a nice little LAC with a suburban campus. You can take the train to Penn Station in about 20 minutes. Long Island University - Post, Sarah Lawrence College, Iona, and SUNY-Purchase are some others.</p>
<p>Fordham is not at all suburban, but does have a beautiful campus in a mixed area of the Bronx.</p>
<p>These are a bit farther away, but:</p>
<p>Yale and Vassar are about 70 miles from NYC</p>
<p>Princeton is right in between NYC and Philly, about an hour from both.</p>
<p>American University is located in a suburb-like residential area on the Northern edge of Washington, DC. Transportation into Georgetown or downtown DC is fairly quick and easy. AU has a school of communications with undergraduate programs in journalism, film & media studies, communication studies, etc. ([Undergraduate</a> Admissions | American University School of Communication, Washington, DC](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/soc/admissions/undergraduate.cfm]Undergraduate”>http://www.american.edu/soc/admissions/undergraduate.cfm)). Selectivity is roughly a match for your stats (3.8 average GPA, ~1900 average CR+M+W). </p>
<p>AU is an expensive private school. Aid does not seem to be as generous as it is at some more selective private schools (which is a general problem you’re likely to face.) Brandeis and Holy Cross are smaller schools with more generous aid, but they are somewhat more selective and do not have communications programs. Brandeis does offer a communications minor.</p>
<p>Northwestern is suburban, with a strong journalism program and generous need-based aid. However, it’s farther away (Chicago), and may be out-of-reach unless your scores go up significantly (in which case it’ll still be a reach, as it is for nearly all applicants).</p>
<p>The University of Miami is located in Coral Gables (SW of Miami), which may be the kind of setting you want. About 10% of undergraduate degrees are awarded in communications/journalism. According to its Common Data Set, it awards aid to all students with demonstrated need; on average it meets 82% of demonstrated need. Average test scores are roughly in line with your PSATs (635/660/630).</p>
<p>Seton Hall is in New Jersey, subway ride away from NYC.</p>
<p>Our experience with Northwestern has been that they are not so generous with financial aid.</p>
<p>For 2009-2010, 1048 Northwestern University students who applied for aid were determined to have need. All 1048 were awarded need-based aid. On average, 100% of their determined need was covered. Their average aid package was $30,424.
(source: NU Common Data Set, 2009-10).</p>
<p>Kiplinger ranks NU #20 among “best value” private research universities.
Its need-based aid averages are roughly in line with averages at WUSTL or Notre Dame. They seem to be lower than averages at some of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Purchase and Manhattanville are right next to each other and in a beautiful area.</p>