<p>I love the city, so I am really looking to go to a college in an urban area, such as new york or boston. Does anyone know of schools that are between ivy and Boston College caliber in the big cities? (besides DC)</p>
<p>UCLA
Rice (Houston)
WashU (St. Louis)
UChicago
USC
Carnegie Melon (Pittsburgh)
Penn (Philly)
Columbia (NY)
Harvard, MIT (basically Boston)
Michigan (40 miles west of Detroit)
Caltech (Pasadena is nice in its own right, but it's also 10 miles NE of downtown LA)
Stanford (Palo Alto is near SF)</p>