Notre Dame is like villanova on steroids but really tough to get into
I agree completely @mimimo7890
U Scranton. Really nice campus.
Providence, John Carroll, Saint Louis University, Saint Mary’s of California, St Michael’s (near UVermont), St Thomas MN, Uportland, USeattle.
Easy to get into if you have the stats for Villanova: Siena, St Bonaventure, Carroll Montana, Albertus Magnus, Molloy, Canisius.
Marquette University in Milwaukee and Loyola University in Chicago are two you might considered. They are both Jesuit, located in an urban area, but much less competative than Villanova.
What was it that appealed to you about Villanova? You might want to check out some of the Ohio schools - Kenyon, Denison, Dayton. Maybe Macalester too - great location. Creighton is a good Jesuit school. But there is a lot of discrepancy among those schools - urban to rural, LAC vs Uni, secular/religiously affiliated, liberal/conservative, sports/arts emphasis, etc.