<p>Stanford, Duke, UCLA, Cal, USC, UMiami, UVA, UNC, Wake Forest, Vandy, UMaryland</p>
<p>I lived in DC for one year. And from what i saw, SW and SE DC is an absolute **** hole.</p>
<p>The only nice part of DC is NW DC.</p>
<p>webass, Iām not Mexican, I just think itās important to go to a school in a rough area. The world is a violent place nowadays and you need to be well versed in street fighting just in case you get mugged on your way to work.</p>
<p>LOL What is this? There are some truly awful areas of Baltimore, but most of it is safe. Youāre obviously not from here. I fyou want danger, visit DC></p>
<p>Arenāt you clever? -_-</p>
<p>The only nice part of DC is NW DC.</p>
<p>Not quite, no. You can get a terrible section of DC in NW and some nice places in SE and SW. (Gentrification is doing wonders to the latter two; itās crazy how much has changed in some places there in only a decade.) Itās a city, for godās sake ā itās not going to be <em>~spectacular~</em> everywhere, but I guess if your image of DC has always been the Mall and Georgetown, you probably wonāt be very impressed by the real part of DC, the part that doesnāt include the government, GWU, and the Hoyas. The Maryland edges of the Blue and Green Lines can be legit shady, and anybody with sense and luck of birth stays out of Anacostia, but if youāre afraid to walk outside of the parameters of Tourist-town, then youāre missing out.</p>
<p>Weāll go like this, iāll describe an awesome college, and weāll see what fitsā¦</p>
<p>Top 15 university in the worldā¦
Top 7 best engineering school in the country
Top 5 business school
Top 5 or 10 in nearly every other area of study
Prominent university hospital
Enough greek life to get involved but not enough that it taints the school
100s of groups and organizations
Beautiful campus
Basketball team made the tourney last season
Hockeys always amazing
Womens softball and volleyball are great
Football-- 3rd largest stadium in the world, highest win % and most wins of all time.</p>
<p>At how many schools can you be part of a 114,000 person wave on national TV, take engineering classes in a field your school is ranked Top 3 in, then go to a play, party, or townhall meeting on nuclear power held by experts in the field?</p>
<p>MICHIGAN</p>
<p>And our Mens soccer team made it to the semis last season</p>
<p>@purpleduckman I loved that post. Iām set to attend penn state but would possibly transfer to a school with a better engineering program and I thought hard about michigan. Or ut.</p>
<p>@DreamingBig</p>
<p>You can stop ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā now.</p>
<p>I like how the purpleduckman actually backed up his post with numbers. </p>
<p>But going off complete speculation, I would want a college that is excellent, has great diversity, great in nearly all fields, has prestige, good-great athletics, and decent weather to boot. So the schools that come to mind are:</p>
<p>UDub
Stanford
Cal
UCLA
UT Austin
Michigan*
USC
University of Florida
Duke</p>
<p>Donāt forget UW-Madison! :D</p>
<p>Boston College!</p>
<p>Iād have to say any school in the ACC. Depends on which rankings you use, but most of them are universally in the top 75 ( FSU and NCState may not be, but theyāre not bad at all ).</p>
<p>Theyāre all good at at least one major sport.</p>
<p>Each one has weather for everyone; none of them has unbearable weather.</p>
<p>All are in fantastic locations.</p>
<p>I attend Miami, but I wouldnāt complain if I was at any of the others (Miami is the best though!)</p>
<p>I think itās between UT Austin and Michigan.</p>
<p>Everyone is just naming big universities. Itās the MOST complete. And as far as being well rounded, I canāt see anyone beating Michigan</p>
<p>Well now Iāll explain why I started this. Iām attending a Penn State branch campus this fall for engineering. Seemed like a good idea tuition wise. Possibly transfer to a better engineering school after freshman year but wanted a good college experience. Very interested in UT and Michigan. Iām from Pittsburgh so UMich is closer. Possibly Eng./BBA dual at Michigan.</p>
<p>stanford without a doubt.</p>
<p>Stanfordās my dream school, but I canāt get in there.</p>
<p>I think the one quality of Michigan that stops it from being the perfect university is the cold weather. But other than that, itās pretty fan-****ing-tastic and well rounded. Of course, Iām a little biased 
Go Blue!</p>
<p>Rice. No contest. ;)</p>
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<p>hahahaha I donāt mean to bash on Rice because I do admire the school, but when you walk around campus even on school days, itās freaking EMPTY and really quiet. The sports arenāt great, no greek life, weather is hot, humid and grossā¦
I guess one of the the only perks is that itās not a dry school :D</p>
<p>thatās not to say itās a boring place; I like the tight-knit student body and all the cute little events the school throws, but in no sense can it be described as OPās notion of ācompleteā</p>