<p>add Boston University and New York University</p>
<p>Someone mentioned University of Colorado in Boulder. I would agree it meets all categories. </p>
<p>I think Loyola of Maryland meets all criteria too. </p>
<p>Dallas in no way has a college town ‘feel’ to it. But if ‘college town feel’ were eliminated from the criteria and just left with ‘not a suitcase school’ SMU would be back in the mix. </p>
<p>University of Maryland (College Park, MD) meets all criteria except population, it is way under 100,000.</p>
<p>University of Michigan is nearly a perfect match. The not so great weather is more than compensated by the awesome school spirit and overall academic strength.</p>
<p>@TPL09: Pitt is only 16% minority ([University</a> of Pittsburgh: Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.pitt.edu/~oafa/stats.html]University”>http://www.pitt.edu/~oafa/stats.html)). It still sounds like a great fit for the OP though.</p>
<p>Sounds a lot like UNC-Chapel Hill. Perfect college town, great weather, great athletics, and awesome social opportunities. Chapel Hill doesn’t have over 100,000 people, but Raleigh, just a 25 minute drive away, has close to a million.</p>
<p>SMU is located in Highland park though, which technically is an enclave in Dallas. SO, this gives SMU a little more a college town feel. :)</p>
<p>uw is not perfect weather.</p>
<p>Loyola Chicago and DePaul Univ!</p>
<p>USC sounds like your school.</p>
<p>of course if you cut the size of the student body down a few thou then you could go Georgetown or Columbia</p>
<p>What you would like in a university is similar to minds as well, you should look at: Michigan State University University of Michigan- Ann Arbor ( and basically all the Big Ten schools).</p>
<p>Though universities that match all are:</p>
<p>University of Washington- Seattle
University of Florida
University of Arizona (ACT score 21-26 according to collegeboard
Arizona State University ( ACT score 20-26 according to collegeboard</p>