Help Me Choose Please

College Search & Selection
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I have no idea which university I want to attend. I want to major in Politics and Economics and minor in Philosophy. I want a university that is in a very commercial city - similar to New York. Preferably a university that does not have a campus but is spread out all over the city. Very similar to NYU - which is my first option. But my stats aren’t that great, so I need to be looking for more.

These are my stats:

IB: mostly 6’s, some 5’s.
ACT: 29-30.
EC’S:

  • Communal Newspaper Head
  • Secretary of Entrepreneurship club.
  • Member of a charity for the past 5 years.
  • Learnt skiing - which is my greatest fear.
  • Worked with PETA for a campaign about anti-leather.
  • Started a fridge for workers and collected clothing for them.
  • Part of Model United Nations since 2016. Head of Sponsors in it.
  • Learnt various different types of dancing in 2018.
  • Wrote a script on Cinderella on the reversed roles of gender stereo types.
  • 3 internships - in Hong Kong, Dubai and India. - For a month each. One was for law, one was for business and one was for economics.
  • Placed third in Business Minds Competition in the whole of Dubai.

My essay: How I spent a whole year saving up money through in a commercial city like Dubai to buy seven pianos for a school of 400 blind students in India.

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Here are a few. Pretty many urban US universities that you are describing are Catholic schools. Many students are not Catholic. I’m not Catholic and would not hesitate to attend one, although this is a very individual decision.

Seattle University. It has a campus but right next to downtown and pretty integrated into its urban neighborhood. Great city!

https://www.seattleu.edu

University of San Francisco

https://www.usfca.edu/about-usf/who-we-are/vision-mission

Saint Louis University

https://www.slu.edu

Non-Catholic Schools

Clark University in Worcester, MA. Worcester is not huge but 2nd or 3rd largest city in New England. It is a college town, with Clark, Holy Cross, WPI, Becker, Assumption, etc.

https://www.clarku.edu

Lewis & Clark and Reed in Portland also, and Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. These are more campus locations, but all very close to downtown areas, well, L&C less so, but might as well look at it if you look at Reed. I would imagine Reed and Macalester would be reaches, though I can’t say for sure. Most of the others, I think (stand to be corrected), would be more match type schools.

Good luck!