<p>I just did a few visits to colleges nearby, and really liked Cornell so I determined that I want to go to a school with the 'college town' feel. I know 'college town' is an abstract term to some extent since people sometimes call Boston a college town. I'm looking for more colleges like Cornell to check out. I really liked the combination of quirky culture from the town and campus feel. Academically, Cornell seemed good for me since they are flexible about me being undecided. Any suggestions of similar places?</p>
<p>Michigan, Wisconsin, UNC, UVa all qualify.</p>
<p>Indiana. Bloomington is a good college town. Not as high of academic level as Cornell, but still a pretty neat school.</p>
<p>In California, the campuses I know of that have a collegtown feel are Stanford, UC-Davis and UC-Berkeley.</p>
<p>If I had to rank the "campus-feel" quality, I'd say Davis is probably the best, followed by Cornell, Stanford and then Berkeley. In terms of "campus aesthetics", Cornell and Princeton were probably the ones I liked best! The architectures were awesome.</p>
<p>Palo Alto does not have a college town feel. It's an antiseptic, wealthy suburb. I wouldn't call it "quirky". It's pretty boring.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Yale (to an extent..), and Williams.</p>
<p>Schools I often compare to Cornell are:</p>
<p>Brown University
Dartmouth College
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Of course, each of those schools is unique, but they share many similar characteristics.</p>
<p>University of Southern California</p>
<p>I don't see Stanford, Berkeley, or UCLA for that matter as having a "college town" feeling. At Stanford you can stay on campus and its a self-contained world, but a block away on University Ave you would be hard pressed to tell there is a major U nearby. Berkeley is in the heart of the Berkeley/Oakland area and does not really have much of a college-dominated feeling downtown (it does resemble the 1960's, though). UCLA has little influence on Westwood.</p>
<p>If you want a college-town feeling in CA then my first 2 suggestions would be Cal-Poly SLO and UCSB.</p>
<p>try the big state schools, like Texas A&M and Oklahoma State.</p>
<p>No one in their right mind would compare Ithaca, New York with Los Angeles. New Haven is more of a College town and that isn't close either.</p>
<p>UC Davis - yes
University of Colorado and Boulder close
Berkeley (within a 15 minute walk, yes)</p>
<p>Berkeley has looped itself into the 1960's (If there is a Government, they oppose it) but it is clearly a college town with ton's of coffee shops and all the confusion of a learning center. (was that a homeless man, or a literature professor in line with me) </p>
<p>One thought, if what you are looking for is a Cornell, there is one in Ithaca, often copied but never duplicated.</p>
<p>For Cornell's overall college town "feel" (albeit in geographically distant and diverse environments), I'd consider Michigan (Ann-Arbor), Wisconsin (Madison), and Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). All are excellent overall schools (in my opinion, probably in that order) and all have a large, vibrant college town feel to the campus community (in my opinion, probably in that order of preference).</p>
<p>id still put cornell above mcihigan though although michigan comes VERY close
to cornells college town feel</p>
<p>Ivybound, I have to disagree. As a person who spent 6 years (4 as a student and 2 as a professional) in Ann Arbor and 2 in Ithaca, I must give the edge to Michigan and Ann Arbor when it comes to having a "college town feel".</p>