<p>son refuses to apply to any school with a traditional campus, will only consider urban schools. visited and loves both BU and GW.</p>
<p>92.5 avg,31 ACT, good ecs including captain of Debate team(state champion)</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a good fit(besides NYU)</p>
<p>thanks so much</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, the University of Chicago, Georgetown and Yale are all examples of urban schools with traditional campuses. Macalester College is a LAC with a traditional campus, but urban.</p>
<p>Does it have to be ugly?</p>
<p>ugly no,urban yes, just his choice, visited georgetown nice by my standards, probably a reach as are the other three</p>
<p>thanks so much</p>
<p>When he saw BU did he visit Northeastern? He might also consider Carnegie Mellon, and UPitt as a safety.</p>
<p>Fordham University has a second urban campus at Lincoln Center in New York. Very safe neighborhood, small intimate school, excellent academics.</p>
<p>Saint Louis University is also a very nice campus in mid-town Saint Louis.</p>
<p>USF in San Francisco. Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. </p>
<p>Emory in Atlanta. </p>
<p>DePaul University in Chicago. </p>
<p>Temple in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Loyola-New Orleans is uptown New Orleans on Charles, adjacent to Tulane. Very good school with outstanding faculty frequently off the radar screen of most kids, and they will probably offer him money to go there. Take a look see. Very good reputation.</p>
<p>John Carroll University in Cleveland is another excellent Jesuit college.</p>
<p>I think our sons are brothers. </p>
<p>Don’t know where you’re from, and what your son wants to major in, but I have to second Loyola New Orleans, or Tulane if Loyola doesn’t have his program.</p>
<p>My son hopes to attend Marquette, in Milwaukee, an urban school, which we visited and he loved. </p>
<p>We also visited University of Alabama in Birmingham, and my son loved Birmingham, even though he swore he wouldn’t attend a southern school. There are a couple of colleges in Birmingham, if UAB doesn’t have his major. Birmingham Southern and Samford are both excellent colleges.</p>
<p>Rhodes and Christian Brothers University in Memphis are great urban choices as well.</p>
<p>Good luck on your search and keep us posted. Maybe we can find a good place for our twins!</p>
<p>Booklady,
Pitt is a possibility, but did not care for northeastern and CM is a bit to engineering forhis liking</p>
<p>ghostbuster,
St.Louis and Seattle sound intriguing, but Fordham is an absolute no go, too many students from his high school(feeder school 30-35 students w/scholarship per year)</p>
<p>montegut,
We are from NY and son is interested in philosophy and govt.Tulane looks good however believe son is leaning toward bigger city</p>
<p>thanks all</p>
<p>b216, we have a very good philosophy program here at Temple, and your son would be in the running for a full ride. If you have any questions about Temple, feel free to message me.</p>
<p>Urban campuses provide great opportunity, and in some cases, despite what one may originally think, a better focus on academics and professional life.</p>
<p>I have similar stats to your son, and was also stuck on an Urban Campus…</p>
<p>I would suggest…</p>
<p>Northeastern University (Boston)
Pace University (New York) –> Personally loved this one
University of Vermont (Burlington)… Still campus feel to this one though.
John Hopkins University
Emmanuel College (Boston)
Emerson College (Boston)
Yale (New Haven)
Syracuse University… Still campus feel to this one.
Rutgers- New Jersey</p>
<p>USC is an urban campus.</p>
<p>Rhodes; beautiful gothic campus in the middle of Memphis, TN.</p>
<p>And yes…Marquette should be on that list as well. </p>
<p>If Fordham is out and he wants to experience something outside of NYC, then you have Loyola-Chicago, Depaul in Chicago. Loyola-Md, in Baltimore. </p>
<p>I happen to really like St. Louis and Saint Louis University. If he has the stats, then WashU is on the other side of the park in St. Louis. </p>
<p>Seattle Univ is in the center of town, pretty campus, lots going on there, vibrant school in a very nice city…but its not exactly a bastion of conservatism being on the West Coast…nothing is out there. Don’t know if that matters to you/him or not. Just putting it out there. </p>
<p>I’m a big fan of Jesuit colleges, but they also happen to often be urban campuses in the middle of town. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great ideas</p>