Princeton Review ranks NYC as five of the best college towns in America

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>New York City colleges (Eugene Lang, Barnard, NYU, Columbia, and Cooper Union) rank 1, 2, 4, 9, and 17, respectively. You've gotta appreciate how valid and scientific these rankings (and rankings in general) really are. If you're a woman and location is a deciding factor in your college choice, you should make sure to apply to Barnard, and not Columbia; it ranks 7 places higher after all.</p>

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<p>You DO know that Barnard is ACROSS the freaking street from Columbia? So what are you talking about in the last few sentences?</p>

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<p>I'm sure that people won't apply to Columbia because of PR's Great College Town, but rather because of NYC...Duhh...who cares how good of a college town it is; it's New York!</p>

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<p>Darn it I should have applied to eugene lang instead of columbia. It's in a better college town.</p>

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<p>jono,</p>

<p>that is EXACTLY the point the OP is making... you do know what satire or sarcasm are? PR says Barnard and Columbia have different rankings based on city, yet they are across the street from one another...
The OP is pointing out how ludicrous this is.</p>

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<p>It's true that you won't apply to Clombia because of that ranking, but I still must say that it is quite an astonishing surprise to see that NYC was ranked among the "best college towns" I wonder what will all does guys who critize Columbia for being "in a big city" might've thought about it. I've heard a lot of "Columbia doesn´t have campus life", there's nbo sense of community in Columbia", blablabla... Well, of course I've never believed that, but it's good to hear that Princeton Review agrees with me.
Just for curiosity, who was #1?</p>

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<p>eugene lang was number 1, see above. It's in NYC, though I'd never heard of it until Princeton Review.</p>

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<p>oops, you're right, it says there. I must confess I had never heard about that school</p>

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<p>I once heard Madison, WI was the best college town, which may sound reasonable.</p>

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<p>i would say that columbia has a different sort of campus life than say, an isolated campus community in the middle of nowhere, or one attached to a dying postmanufacturing blight, or one large campus sphere in a sprawling suburb.</p>