<p>I really like Dartmouth but I hate their location and their trimester system. Please name universities (no LACs) with good name recognition, and preferably in an urban or suburban community with lots of places to shop and get your morning coffee, etc. (I'm from NYC and although I don't want to experience NYC all over again, I need some form of life lol).</p>
<p>Vanderbilt, UChicago, Emory, Macalester, Stanford</p>
<p>So what did you like about Dartmouth compared to any other Ivy?</p>
<p>Dartmouth isn't on a trimester system, they're on a quarter system. The only other system I know similar to the D Plan is Colorado College. And Hanover actually has a decent number of places to "get your morning coffee," and has frequent busses to Boston.</p>
<p>As to other similar schools though, perhaps try Tufts, which is frequently used as a safety to many of the ivies, or Brown, though both, I believe, are on semester systems.</p>
<p>Boston College
Vanderbilt
Emory
U-Chicago
Wisconsin
WUSTL
GWU
Georgetown
UTexas at Austin
Carnegie Mellon
Rice
Yale
Brown</p>
<p>Not sure if UT and UW would qualify as "similar to Dartmouth" though</p>
<p>brown and rice</p>
<p>I like all of those schools but prefer ones in the northeast. How are BC and GWU in terms of job placement into business?</p>
<p>bumppppppp</p>
<p>Doesn't exist. Among the most defining characteristics of Dartmouth is that it is in the middle of nowhere, in the snow. Colgate, Bates, and Colby will share similar cultures.</p>
<p>Have you looked at Tufts?</p>
<p>if you like coffee you like U Chicago!</p>
<p>Duke, Georgetown, and Northwestern. BC and Gwu are not remotely close to Dartmouth or the preceeding 3 in academic terms.</p>
<p>how about Penn?</p>
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<p>Let's see, good name recognition, in an urban area, and lots of places to shop and get good coffee. How about Harvard?</p>
<p>How does bright, sunny, wavy beaches that you can snowboard on sound?</p>
<p>That seems to be what you are looking for. That school and environment doesnt exist.</p>
<p>What makes Dartmouth "Dartmouth" is quite specifically not the things you say you are looking for. Dartmouth's location, in very large part, helps create its intimate, LAC-like, atmosphere in a university setting. </p>
<p>1) That Dartmouth is an Ivy-league school is incidental. </p>
<p>2) Urban-anything, as a rule, does not equal friendly and intimate.</p>
<p>3) Shopping is an urban/suburban activity Coffee is known to be available almost anywhere and, sadly, I suppose, Dartmouth is only to be found in Hanover New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Hey Bananas......if you are from NYC and you have four short years to diversify your experience while getting your undergrad degree......why don't you embrace the "lack" of all that you have at Dartmouth?? To my way of thinking part of the education procress is trying new experiences....likely you will return to NYC and thus when do you think you would have the "remote" experience that Darmouth has to offer you? As to the schedule....well that means you wouldn't even be there in January........so you could have a long break in NYC.</p>
<p>I get what you guys are saying, thanks for the advice. But living in New Hampshire just seems so BLAHHHHHH. I need to be able to shop every week. I like buying new things in exciting stores. Not Walmart lol. No offense to any Walmart lovers, of course. But how much stuff can you actually buy for your wall before it's full?</p>
<p>So...according to you, the only store that there is around Dartmouth is Walmart? Have you actually visited Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Hey Bananas......you need to locate an urban campus for your daily happiness. This is not a bad thing and I'm happy for you that you recognize it is a need you have. I personally love an urban campus but I also spent 4 years in NH and it wasn't all terrible. Boston is close and that helped me survive.</p>
<p>Have you thought of Villanova? It's medium-sized, but with a pretty campus, a huge amount of student spirit, good academics, and while it is suburban, it is close to Philly. I also second a previous poster's suggestion of Boston College and WUSTL. All nice campus feel, with easy comutes to big cities.</p>
<p>You might as well ask for schools like NYU that aren't in a big city.</p>