<p>I am a junior in high school and am interested in going to college in a large city. I am interested in either computer science or business/finance/economics (not exactly sure which yet). Also, I want to go to a small college that has small class sizes. I would consider a liberal arts education a bonus but mostly just want to be in the middle of a busy environment. Any suggestions based on my specific interests? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your input!</p>
<p>Without knowing your stats/geographic preference/financial situation it is hard to opine, Many of the Jesuit colleges could fit the bill. Look through this list and see which if any schools makes sense in terms of academics/preferred location etc. My S went to Fordham and had a great experience.
<a href=“Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities--Jesuit Colleges and Universities”>http://www.ajcunet.edu/institutions</a></p>
<p>Other ideas might be Villanova or URichmond.</p>
<p>@happy1 Thank you for the resource. I have a 3.96 unweighted GPA and have had the opportunity to take class at both a local community college and my state university starting sophomore year. Last week I took a practice SAT without any prior studying and scored a 1910. I will look to improve on that score when I take the real exam in January. My ECs are probably the strongest part of my resume because of the fact that I am a part of the first graduating class of my high school and have had many leadership opportunities in a variety of clubs and activities. I am open to any geographical location except for the south east. Finally, financing will not play a big part in my decision as I am fortunate enough to have my parents willing to pay for my education.</p>
<p>i suggest taking the act because i–at first–got a 1900 on the sat but ended with a 31 on the act (which correlates to around a 2070 on the sat) with the same amount of preparation. </p>
<p>i second fordham (at LC or RH – small class sizes at both campuses), villanova would be mostly small… tufts/rochester/boston college are more suburban… wake forest maybe, schools WITHIN nyu would have smaller classes…</p>
<p>ever think about any of the claremont colleges in california? they seem awesome, and if you get good test scores you’d definitely be a competitive candidate for any of them</p>
<p>ummm, Trinity College, Hartford. no business but econ and CS. there are fewer LACs in cities and few that have business schools but might have economics and/or business management and/or finance and/or accounting. Colorado College, Manhattanville, Rhodes, Lafayette, Lehigh, Muhlenberg, F&M, Richmond, Drexel. So many come to mind.</p>
<p>Try to find a way to narrow it down by reading up on these schools and others that show up here in a book like Fiske or Princeton. Run the net price calculator on the FA page of each of these colleges. It will give you some idea what colleges will expect your family to pay. Show this EFC to your parents and talk about money. You can only borrow 5500 the first year and 27K total.</p>
<p>@flyingbison I did take an ACT practice test and scored a 24. The time constraints were tough for my test taking style…I have looked at the Claremont Colleges, but from what I’ve read they are not exactly in a big city. Thank you for your ideas.</p>
<p>no, Los Angeles is not a big city. How close do you want to be to the city and how big must the city be? Maybe this will narrow down some choices.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 As close to a downtown metropolitan area as possible. Definitely something that is within walking distance.</p>
<p>You might want to try SuperMatch, found in the left hand column of this page. Plug in your info. Choose the city size you want. Indicate that the school should be a certain size, and SuperMatch ought to be able to pump out some suggestions. We can help when you’ve got a couple dozen.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 Great, thank you. That is exactly the kind of advice I am looking for.</p>
<p>To be fair, the Claremont Colleges are in Claremont, which is not in Los Angeles - it’s about 35 minutes from Los Angeles.</p>
<p>For an interest in business, look at Babson College, a business LAC located in Boston. Occidental College is also in the heart of LA, although no business major (economics, though). Rice, in Houston, has a major in managerial studies and a minor in business and another in financial computation and modeling. The University of Richmond also has a big business/pre-professional focus there.</p>
<p>For small-to-medium, Brown has a small-to-medium undergraduate population and has a program in business, entrepreneurship, and organizations. Columbia, in New York, has a somewhat unique special concentration in business management - it’s designed to be a complementary second major to something else, which could be economics if you wanted it. (I also know that Columbia’s economics, mathematics, and statistics departments have a relative lot of classes with financial and business applications.) There is, of course, the Wharton School at Penn - which only has 2300 undergrads, although Penn itself has over 10,000. Emory University has an undergraduate business program and they have just under 8,000 undergraduates; you could opt to start at the Oxford College division, with just 947 undergraduates, and transfer into Goizueta Business School as a junior. (Everyone in the undergrad business program transfers into Goizueta as a junior, so you won’t be alone in that.)</p>
<p>If you’re a young woman, then Barnard College is right in the middle of New York and has an econ major. Simmons, in Boston, also has a business major with the option to earn a master’s, too, in 4 years.</p>
<p>St. Thomas or Macalester are great choices–up the street from one another in St. Paul. St. Thomas is more pre-professional and Mac is a well-regarded LAC.</p>
<p>University of San Francisco and Seattle University come to mind.</p>
<p>Maybe Santa Clara University.</p>
<p>Claremont is in Los Angeles county Claremont is a suburb with a cute downtown ‘village’ but smallish, it is a bedroom community except for those who live and work at the college area. Also downtown LA is not like downtown NYC, SF, Boston etc. Downtown is a ghost town at night except for a few club areas and skid row. LA is big and spread out. </p>
<p>Don’t underestimate how much your SAT score might dictate your college choices. Get the Blue Book if you don’t have it an drill yourself. </p>
<p>At least 100 schools in large cities, Boston, New York, Phily, DC, Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, St Louis, SLC, Denver, New Orleans, Nashville, Cleveland, Pitts, SF, San Jose, Seattle, Portland. etc. etc. You need to take the real SAT and we can make some suggestions.
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Drexel
UMBC
GWU
Loyola
SLU
UD
Trulane
Case
Pit
USF
SJSU
UW
UO</p>
<p>Too many to choose. You need to narrow down a bit.</p>
<p>Not to mention many of the [url=“<a href=“http://theaitu.org%22%5DAITU%5B/url”>http://theaitu.org”]AITU[/url</a>] schools if you are interested in more of an engineering environment with your computer science…</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your input. I wont be applying for about a year, but I want to start narrowing down my options at least a little bit. Also, I plan to take my first SAT in March and then for a second time in June so I am finished with testing before senior year.</p>
<p>Duquesne in Pittsburgh has a decent business school. (not sure about CS) You could probably pick any city and find several small colleges that would fit your criteria.</p>