<p>is there any lacs which is located in major big city(or near) and is big in sports???</p>
<p>ive known only big state schools and some privates..so i like to know some lacs to consider...</p>
<p>There are a ton of LACs in cities, but your not going to find any that can compete with universities in sports. That's just not what they're about.</p>
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<p>Can you be a little more specific? Play sports? Watch sports? Male sports? Female sports? "Big in sports" is pretty vague.</p>
<p>Davidson is located about 20 minutes from downtown Charlotte and plays Division 1 football.</p>
<p>Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr are all located in old ritzy neighborhoods of Philadelphia. I would not characterize any of them as "big in sports", but they all support a broad range of sports (except football) and each is pretty decent in a few sports.</p>
<p>Pomona and the Claremont Colleges are near Los Angeles. Like the Philly schools, I wouldn't say they are "big on sports", but Pomona is competive in some sports.</p>
<p>thanks..interesteddad and howdoesitfeel </p>
<p>all i wanted was maybe a half fulled stadium....
and can you guys name some of lower(in terms of ranking) schools??about ucsd,uci,ucd,and ucsb</p>
<p>edit:actually you know what sports is not that important...</p>
<p>You should check out Union College. I don't really know that much about it, but it's in New York city, and is a very good school but not the very highest level of selectivity, sort of like the places you named. They compete in leagues mostly filled with much bigger schools, at least in hockey, so I assume that sports are a fairly big deal.</p>
<p>Union is in Schenectady, not New York City.</p>
<p>LACs in cities are a bit hard to find. Small universities, like Rice, can feel a lot like LACs though. I'd say any school with fewer than ~6,000 kids can have that LAC feel. Here are some LACs in cities:</p>
<p>Tufts
Brandeis
Trinity
Case Western
Macalester
Lewis & Clark
Occidental</p>
<p>Holy Cross is in Worcester, MA (small city). It is not far from Boston.
They have strong athletic programs (D-I), and very spirited fans.</p>
<p>Providence College (Rhode Island) has about 4000 undergraduates. It is in a city and has a very strong (D-I) athletic program.</p>
<p>thanks guys...i will definately check out tufts as one of my reach school...</p>
<p>I would say Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. It's practically a LAC and is in a not-that-huge city, but a city none-the-less. Plus D-IAA sports which are a big deal there. Depending on your stats it is only a little bit difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Also D-IAA sports are played at nearby Lafayette College, which is in a smaller "town-like" setting but you can get to a city from there. It's if anything easier to get into than Lehigh.</p>
<p>Rice University of Houston is small enough to be a LAC and they play D-IA sports, but it's much harder to get into. University of Tulsa is even smaller and much easier to get into assuming you're okay with Tulsa as a city. Both are not officially LACs but are small enough to be.</p>
<p>Holy Cross would be great if you're okay with a Catholic school.</p>
<p>Bucknell and the harder-to-get-into Colgate match except they are not in cities at all (Colgate being in the antithesis of a "city").</p>
<p>Davidson as suggested would be great but it's hard to get into and is not actually in a city, but is sorta near one.</p>
<p>Occidental College is D-III but is in LA and is a bit easier to get into. I don't know how much sports matter to the students, but they have football and all the other standard sports.
Similarly, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut has D-III sports.</p>
<p>They may be other good suggestions. I can't think of any college that perfectly fits everything (LAC, D-I sports, Very big city) but all of these ones are at least close to that.</p>
<p>I second Lehigh. Its not in a city but has incredible school spirit. Most schools in the big cities actually tend to not have great sports teams nor do they have much school spirit.</p>
<p>Holy Cross has perhaps the best athletic tradition and program of any selective LAC. HC has won the NCAA and NIT championship in DIV1 mens basketball. NCAA in baseball, 1 Orange Bowl , and last year HC hockey beat highly ranked Minnesota in NCAA tourney. Holy Cross is located in mid size city-Worcester,which is 1 hour from Boston. Davidson is another school with good tradition-mainly basketball.</p>