I love pretty much everything about CU. I love the college town of Boulder and how it has kind of a hippy and outdoorsy vibe. I’m interested in Communications/public relations I think, and there is a big comm. program there. I like how it is a big school and has diversity. However, I’m a MA resident and I’m worried that it would be a hastle to travel back and forth. Also I’m not a huge partier and I’ve heard CU is a huge party school. My GPA is 3.87, and I have pretty good ECs/comm service. Some other schools I’m considering: App state, College of Charleston, Colorado State, U of Deleware, Michigan State, U Maryland CP. any recommendations would be appreciated! Thank you!
Western New England. UVM. UMiane Orono A s UMAss Amherst. You are close to being commonwealth honors level.
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There isn’t really a match for Boulder back East.
If you want a university near Massachusetts in a fun college town with “kind of a hippy and outdoorsy vibe”, then the obvious pick seems like the University of Vermont. It’s not as large as CU-Boulder though.
You would probably like UC Santa Cruz, which also has the hippy outdoorsy vibe and a fun town. However, it it is even farther away than CU-Boulder, and (like all UCs) is very expensive for out-of-staters.
UNC-Asheville has the outdoorsy hippy vibe and the fun college town, but is relatively small, maybe closer to a liberal arts college than a university.
Indiana University in Bloomington. Great college town!
CofC has an excellent communications program
CofC has an excellent communications program.
UC Irvine, Utah, Iowa State, Virgina Tech, Oregon State, LSU, Florida State, Texas AM.
Have similar student, academic, and college profiles.
I bet it would take you less time to fly to Denver and get to Boulder than to drive to UVM.
Travel is always a hassle, but Denver to Boston isn’t bad. There are several carriers that fly that route and a non-stop is under four hours. There is free public transportation (by bus) from campus to DIA for CU students.
@Greymeer OP is looking for a college town similar to Boulder not a University with the similar student profiles.
She actually said she liked CU, Boulder, the vibe, the (new) communications department but didn’t want to travel.
CU and Boulder are unique. It is not, however, diverse.
University of Colorado
Asian 5.5%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.1%
Black/African American 1.6%
Hispanic/Latino 11.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 0.2%
More than one race 5.0%
White/Unknown 69.3%
International 7.1%
University of California - Berkeley
African American/Black 2.9%
Mexican American/Chicano 9.9%
Other Hispanic/Latino 3.7%
Native American/Alaska Native 0.4%
Pacific Islander 0.2%
Asian 42.2%
White 24.5%
Decline to State 4.7%
International 11.6%
As you can see two races dominated UCB, Asian and White, while just one dominates at CU, White. The rest are comparable. Not sure if that makes UCB diverse or not. As I have made in a previous post CU reflects the Colorado population fairly well while UCB is not a reflection at all of California.
I think there are a lot of similarities between CU Boulder and University of Vermont. An added plus of UVM: Lake Champlain.
PS The drive between Denver and Boulder is a pain.
Your more likely to find a Boulder like vibe in the western half of the US then the eastern half, there is actually a cultural difference between the West and the East. Still I have travelled quite a bit and can’t think of anything that is quite the same.
We live in CA and my DD1 is at school in Massachusetts. Travel is a pain but it is only a few times a year. I’ve never seen UVM but I agree there is a cultural difference that is palpable between the West and East. We have joked that we notice it as soon as we land at either Denver, Utah or Dallas airports. You might consider some other Pac 12 schools. Oregon, Oregon State and Washington State might work. ASU and UA are in larger cities but the desert area can be fun too.
@cu123 even though UCB is not in Silicon Valley or San Francisco proper, the population at the university is pretty representative of the population in those 2 places. Silicon Valley, which is close to 50% Asian and San Francisco which is 35% Asian. So yes, UCB’s population demographics is pretty fairly representative.
Look at the segregation demographics online map of the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/segregation-us-cities/?utm_term=.eee48998ae41
Plug in Berkeley, CA and visually go from San Francisco across the Bay to Berkeley and then down the East Bay to the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose. That’s the home turf, for lack of a better term, for Berkeley attendees. I’ll bet you’ll see a lot more green (representing Asian) than anything else.
I guess that UCB isn’t a school that is for the entire state population just the Bay Area then…
Or maybe that UCSD is mostly Latino… 8-|
If you think about it, no it isn’t for everyone, that’s why UCB has a very low acceptance rate.