<p>Hi- I'm a sophomore in high school, and while I don't know what college I'd like to go to, or what specifically I'd like to study, I do know that I want to be in a big city (Boston, NYC, San Francisco, etc.) at a college within 5 miles of the city center. I'd like a city with a good nightlife, lots of arts, underground music, etc. As far as colleges go, I will have taken 9 AP's, I've got a 4.0, a 2160 SAT, but I later took the PSAT and would have gotten 2250 were it the real SAT. Lots of extracurriculars (speech, drama, classical voice lessons, community service, academic summer programs since 4th grade). My current thoughts on careers (not specific majors, because there are so many different ones that can all help in certain careers) are surgeon of some sort, civil rights lawyer, maybe NGO worker- so a good biology/chemistry program would be great, as well as a good political science program. Where should I look? Thanks!</p>
<p>Rice is very good for Pre-med. It’s also in Houston which is a huge city.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, Fordham, Johns Hopkins (Baltimore too small?), Vanderbilt (Nashville too small?), Penn, Villanova, Haverford, Swarthmore</p>
<p>Georgetown as well</p>
<p>WUSTL and URochester are both strong also.</p>
<p>Hopkins was ranked USNews 2008 hottest school for premeds for a reason… JHU for premed.</p>
<p>Emory , UMiami, Northwestern and Tulane, to</p>
<p>University Of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Case Western. </p>
<p>Cleveland Clinic’s on site, in Cleveland’s cultural zone, Little Italy right down the street, and you can take the metro into downtown, and spend the night clubbing on the Flats. Also has an awesome pre-med program.</p>
<p>If finances are of any concern, consider Temple. With your stats, you’d get a significant scholarship and admission to the honors program.</p>
<p>Rice is across the street from the Texas Medical Center - the largest campus of medical facilities in the world. The opportunities for research and interships are there. I’ve heard they have a high med school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>University of Central Florida… the second most popular major is Molecular and Microbiology, which is basically just pre-med. The chemistry, biology, and other physical science departments here are incredible, it’s definitely the university’s strongest area. If you’re a National Merit Scholar (which with those stats you probably are) you’ll get a full ride, and it’s about fifteen minutes from downtown Orlando (forty minutes from Disney World). There’s a strong political science program here, as well as legal studies.</p>
<p>University of Washington? Seattle is one of the safer cities when looking at other college cities (Philly, Baltimore, NYC)</p>
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<p>That generally happens when your population is 594,000 as opposed to 1.5M or 8.3M …</p>
<p>George Washington University-right in the middle of the city and a few blocks from the White House. U Street has great clubs with music, lots of museums for the arts, Kennedy Center within walking distance for performing arts. Great internships in Poli Sci and the hospital right next door.</p>
<p>*Agnes Scott College (Atlanta)
*Barnard College (NYC)
*Bryn Mawr College (Philadelphia)
Goucher College (Baltimore)
Lewis & Clark College (Portland)
Macalester College (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Occidental College (LA)
Reed College (Portland)
Sarah Lawrence College (NYC)
Trinity University (San Antonio)</p>
<p>The Claremont colleges are relatively far from LA but would still be worth a look.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College
Harvey Mudd College (for insane pre-meds)
Pitzer College
Pomona College
*Scripps College</p>
<p>*Single-sex</p>
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<p>BMC isn’t urban…</p>
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Bryn Mawr is 20 minutes from Philly using SEPTA. It’s not like it’s Kenyon.</p>
<p>I live there–it’s not urban.</p>