<p>If they picked up Oberlin and moved in to new york then that would just about be my dream school. I love everything about Oberlin but I would die in a rural setting. I'm definitely a city girl! So if anyone has suggestions of similar schools in more urban or suburban settings...well I would just about loooove you. Thanks!</p>
<p>ooppppsss that was from me. she forgot to sign out and i didnt notice. so anyways...i love oberlins environment (very heavily politically and socially active; very liberal; etc) but honestly...i would not survive in a small rural town...so any other schools that are similar to oberlin in a big city would be awwweesome.</p>
<p>Well, Reed College in Portland is pretty urban. So is Macalester in the the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St Paul). And if you do not mind all-girl schools, Barnard might very well be your dream school. Its affiliation to Columbia and its NYC location makes you forget its an all-girl institution.</p>
<p>As for suburban schools, you have plenty. Pomona (L.A.) Claremont McKenna (L.A.), Haverford (Philadelphia) and Swarthmore (Philadelphia) are all suburban. Wellesley (Boston) and Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia), two other great all-girl schools are also suburban.</p>
<p>So, do you love me now?! hehe</p>
<p>i dooo loooovee you mucho! definitely veryvery helpful. hmm...this is really gooood chocolate cake but now I'm adding too many letters to the words. so much sugar. Anways I really do appreciate it and I will look into alll of them.</p>
<p>hmm that last post sounded dumb. So here : I greatly appreciate your advice, and will research all of the wonderful schools that you have suggested. Much better.</p>
<p>No problem. Another school that you may want to look at is the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Have you been to Oberlin? I found it very different from my expectations when I visited there (a lot more p.c. talk than social action, and irresponsible attitudes and lifestyles everywhere apparent.) You might well find more serious social action at Reed, Macalester, Chicago, and the other schools Alexandre mentioned.</p>
<p>thank you very much! I hadn't heard that. good to know</p>
<p>Wesleyan is very similar to Oberlin. It's not in a big city itself, but NY and Boston are both easily reach-able by bus/train. (When my D was there, she often spent weekends with groups of friends at one or th other of these two cities, because half of Wes comes from one of them. :) )</p>
<p>great suggestion...im visiting new york over spring break so ill check it out!</p>
<p>Superstarr, what are you doing eating chocolate cake at 4:24 a.m. anyway? You may want to try a rural college just for the sake of getting a good night's sleep! :-) Oh, and Macalester sounds great to me.</p>
<p>what the hell is a city girl?</p>
<p>As citygirlsmom, I will tell you...they are my Ds, that live in a great city, who like cities and want to go to college in a city, not a small town, not in the burbs, but in a city...they want colleges that are colleges in a city, not a place with a town around a college, not that there is anything wrong with that!!</p>
<p>We live in a great city, that is just about as eclectic as you get, wandering around Haight Street, going to Union Square, taking the cable car, going to unity dances, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, using the City and being in it....my D's couldn't handle the quiet of a rural college, hence citygirls</p>
<p>That is why we are city girls ; )</p>
<p>what school do your daughters go to? I'm a senior at Sacred Heart</p>
<p>and why not just have them apply to USF if they love the city so much, or san diego state or USD, out of state they should look at Reed, Seattle, Univ. of Washington (if they can handle a big school), any of the east coast colleges mentioned before. If you think they have the stats, and really want lib. arts they should look at William and Mary (in a small town but near to about 80 big cities which are just as convenient to them there as the east bay is to us here.
Quirky but worth looking at is St. John's college in Santa Fe. I was in Santa Fe a few months ago, and it is a beautiful city with plenty to do, and that college is really top notch, if you can get in to their style of education.
I'm applying to oberlin, amherst and uIowa (among others) even though I love they city, let your daughters know that experiencing red state rural life can be a very rewarding and enjoyable experience, and not to discount it before taking a look.</p>
<p>My daughter wanted that type of school too, and in a city. She is a city girl, in exile for a number of years, and she wanted to go back "home".</p>
<p>Not many choices, though, in this category. The places like that she identified were: Barnard, Macalester, Reed. She also looked at Brown, though that's a bit different.
Then some "you call this a city?" schools: Vassar and Wesleyan.
Then the suburban schools that have been mentioned. Some others further afield as well.</p>
<p>In the end she did an overnight at Oberlin and it just felt too right. She is there.</p>
<p>I haven't heard her complain too much about the location. I think that, to compensate, students in that kind of setting have to hang around more with each other, on campus, and this may create a more "together" campus environment actually. So there may be some redeeming social value, surprisingly.</p>
<p>I suspect that if you could plunk the same school down in NYC, or Boston, she would transfer. But you can't. Life is about trade-offs.</p>
<p>If you have an open mind about it at all, I'd suggest doing an overnight and asking a lot of questions. Otherwise, the other choices we found are the above.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore at at St. Ignatius. And just for clarification...the chocolate cake was delicious and it was only around 9:00ish around here. A little late to be eating chocolate, but what can I say? Im a fiend!</p>