<p>Try and stick around Manhattan. Campus branches are fine too, like Fordham's LAC.</p>
<p>So, top five?</p>
<ol>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>fordham</li>
<li>Cuny Hunter</li>
<li>Cuny Queens</li>
</ol>
<p>Last two are subject to different arragements, perhaps even city college could be in there.</p>
<p>
Barnard? Yeshiva? Juilliard? Cooper Union?</p>
<p>Barnard should deff. be up there</p>
<p>It really depends on what you are studying.</p>
<p>Cooper union, barnard, Eugene Lang or whatever it’s called may hold those spots actually. The CUNYs are extremely poorly funded unfortunately, although Hunter was okay when I had a look.</p>
<p>I’d go in the order of Columbia, NYU, Yeshiva, Cooper Union, etc. Fordham is decent but its only real distinguishing feature is its law school. Yeshiva’s got an edge in research. Cooper is a very good school but it’s got a narrow focus (it’s only considered by those who definitely want to go into the arts or engineering).</p>
<p>Julliard and Cooper Union are very specialized, so I will ignore them.</p>
<p>Top 5 “all-round” in NYC:</p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Fordham (espically for law)</li>
<li>Yeshiva (especially for law and medicine)</li>
<li>CUNY (referring to the top constituent colleges only: Brooklyn, Baruch, Queens, Hunter and City Colleges)</li>
</ol>
<p>How about Macaulay? ([Macaulay</a> Honors College -](<a href=“http://macaulay.cuny.edu/]Macaulay”>http://macaulay.cuny.edu/))</p>
<p>With the exception of Cooper and Columbia, its probably the most difficult to get into (~20%; >1400 SAT). Also the benefits are pretty sweet if you were interested.</p>
<p>1.) Columbia
2.) NYU or CUNY Macaulay
3.)Fordham
4.)CUNY
5.)St. John’s ?</p>
<p>Poor, poor Barnard. >:</p>
<p>For undergrad:</p>
<p>1) Columbia
2) Barnard
3) NYU
4) Fordham
5) Yeshiva</p>
<p>2&3 are interchangeable depending on small preferences as are 4&5.</p>
<p>I think I agree with the previous poster ^^^, even though my younger D is currently a Macaulay honors student @ Brooklyn College.</p>
<p>It is a great program, but not equivalent to any of the schools on confidentialcoll’s list.</p>
<p>^ I agree beacuse even though its tough to get into, you will still be attending one of the CUNY schools as your ‘school’</p>
<p>Columbia
Barnard/NYU
Fordham
…</p>