Looking for big City schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>NY student at a large Public HS
Rank
40/507</p>

<p>SAT
760M 670 V 650 W - 1430/2080</p>

<p>SAT IIs
780 US History
650 Chemistry </p>

<p>APs
US History - 5
Euro - 5
English - 4
Chem - 5
Physics- 5</p>

<p>GPA
90.52 UW/ 96.67 W</p>

<p>I like urban schools like NYU and UChicago. I'm interested in Calculus and History as strange as that is. Not too into partying and frats. I would like an intellectual vibe from the student body. I will also need FA too.</p>

<p>Please suggest any safeties/matches/reaches please. :)</p>

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<p>Check out George Washington University in DC.</p>

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<p>University of Rochester, Case Western (both are good with merit money), Rhodes (TN) and Boston University.</p>

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<p>Penn; Hopkins; Carnegie Mellon; Pitt; Brandeis</p>

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<p>I second GWU and BU…Drexel, but it would be a safety.</p>

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<p>Take advantage of the SUNYs, particularly as financial safeties:
UBuffalo
Stony Brook
Binghamton</p>

<p>None are the same kind of urban as NY, Chicago or Boston, but the price is right.</p>

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<p>Scores a little too low for UChicago in my opinion, although in my opinion it’d be a good fit for you socially, it seems. I think you’d have a shot at NYU, which also seems like a good fit, although I don’t know much about their departments.</p>

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<p>Boston University, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, New York University, George Washington University, University of Southern California, University of Miami, University of Washington- Seattle, Ohio State University- Columbus, University of Texas- Austin, Northeastern, Northwestern, University of Toronto,etc… and the list goes on.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately NYU is known to have bad FA.</p>

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<p>^^well aware but it doesn’t hurt to apply</p>

<p>and I’m using SUNY Binghamton and Geneseo as safeties.</p>

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<p>bring
up
my
pigs!</p>

12

<p>DePaul
(definitely)</p>

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<p>maybe Tufts</p>

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<p>DePaul seems pricey for a lower tier school?</p>

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<p>Reed College in Portland. Very intellectual, no frats. Great city.</p>

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<p>^ Good recommendation. Good FA. That’s a reach.</p>

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<p>Beware that Reed attracts and accepts a quirky (“odd, strange, weird” are the adjectives I hear, redundantly) population–very bright kids, and I have heard of rampant drug use (and I don’t mean alcohol).</p>

<p>I have my own prejudice against the NYC schools, which I have heard from students at NYU, Barnard/Columbia, that NY city poses such distraction and attraction that the students don’t attend school functions–e.g. dorm dances, rafting trips to upstate New York. This would be a deal-breaker for my kid since my child wasn’t a very collegiate experience.</p>

<p>University of Chicago, hands-down (and this is the opinion of many an academic whom I know), could well deserve the moniker of the most intellectual college campus in the country. Sport teams, however, are pretty poor, which is why my athletic child–who is pretty darn intellectual–nixed the Chicago. UC Berkeley, too, seems to pick students who are not only academically top-notch but, overall, quite intellectual.</p>

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<p>Reed indeed promotes itself in its viewbook as “Serious. Quirky. Rigorous. Free-thinking. Classical. Iconoclastic. Paradoxical…Reed is one of the most intellectual colleges anywhere, and it is not for everyone.” </p>

<p>Here is data on drug use at Reed (thanks SW!):</p>

<p>[Pluralistic</a> Ignorance Project - Drugs & Alcohol](<a href=“http://academic.reed.edu/psychology/psy322/pluralisticignorance/drugsalcohol.html]Pluralistic”>http://academic.reed.edu/psychology/psy322/pluralisticignorance/drugsalcohol.html)</p>

<p>Compare these numbers to those from other schools.</p>

<p>Students who think they cannot resist drugs, or just don’t want to be around them, should indeed avoid colleges in the U.S. (with a few possible exceptions).</p>