<p>Please help me!! I just got accepted (with a scholarship too) to these three colleges. I also got accepted to SCAD and CCS, but not with a great scholarship. So I am considering these three. My plan is to start in one of these three schools and do my foundation year there, and after that I want to transfer to a college like CalArts, RISD, or MICA to study Film and TV (or a related major). </p>
<p>What I mean is I'm just going to stay one year there. So I want the best of these three in foundations and liberal arts. But I think the most important factor for now is the city. I like an active nightlife, with a lot of people. I want a beautiful city. I don't know much about cities in the USA, since I'm from Colombia. Please tell me which city should I choose! (Cleveland, Kansas City, or Memphis?)</p>
<p>I will not have a large loan to pay, since there will be no loan. I received great scholarship offers from these schools. What I need is an opinion about colleges and mostly the cities!</p>
<p>Congrats! I live just outside of Cleveland, and I have a few friends who go to CIA. Cleveland isn't a pretty city. There are a lot of bad areas, and half the year it is cold and gray and snowing and not very nice. All Cleveland has going for it is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Cleveland Orchestra, the basketball team, and... that's about it. As for nightlife, there are a few colleges around CIA like Case and CIM, but none of them are really known for having great social networks. I don't know much about Memphis and Kansas City, so I can't address them, but I'd say don't come to Cleveland. Definitely get more opinions, but that's my two cents.</p>
<p>Thank you! That's all I've been told about Cleveland. But I know in KC there's not that much social activity. I'm not expecting the beeeest city, just the best of these 3</p>
<p>Cleveland is great! Seriously!
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The Indians, the Browns, the Cavs.
Coventry and Little Italy, close to CIA and CWRU.
Great club scene downtown, funky clubs in Coventry.
Wonderful concert venues and every major act comes here on tour.
Awesome live theater if you are into that.
(I don't like the weather in KC or Memphis, too hot and humid - but maybe you are used to that kind of weather?)
Join the "Cleveland" facebook group and see what young Cleveland people are up to.</p>
<p>CIA is located in University Circle which is the cultural center of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art is a two minute walk from CIA. University Circle includes several museums, Severance Hall, the home of the world renowned Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University, which has about 4000 undergrads and 6000+ graduate and professional students (law, medicine, social service, business, nursing). University Hospitals (associated with CWRU med school) is in University Circle and the world famous Cleveland Clinic is located just west of University Circle. So you have an area that caters to many students, physicians in training, and professionals. Many people consider this area to be the best in the city of Cleveland.</p>
<p>CIA has produced many successful graduates who have made significant contributions. Here is a link to a company formed by CIA graduates who bought a historic landmark overlooking University Circle and remodeled it for their offices. Nottingham•Spirk</a> Design Associates – Innovation Center Historic Landmark The building was a prototype for Severance Hall.</p>
<p>I have been to Kansas City and Memphis many times on business but I do not know where KCAI and MCA are located. However, neither city has a cultural concentration similar to University Circle. Both will be more humid during the summer, which may not be an issue if you live in a humid region of Colombia. Cleveland's winter will be colder, but all three mid-continent cities are subject to arctic blasts coming out of Canada, sending temperatures well below freezing.</p>