<p>I'm really looking at schools that are like NYU, USC, or Johns Hopkins, but a little more easier to get into. Are there any colleges that are like in the heart of a major or medium sized cities? They can be anywhere around the country although I prefer the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, or the East Coast. Northern California is okay too.</p>
<p>George Washington, American University, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, Macalester, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Loyola (Chicago), Case Western Reserve, Temple, Providence College, Villanova, Marquette, Ohio State, Fordham.</p>
<p>Define "urban" and "medium sized cities". By urban, do you mean smack in the middle of the action or within 5 miles of city center? By medium sized, do you mean 150,000 residents or half a million residents?</p>
<p>Clark University, University of Puget Sound, DePaul, Trinity U (San Antonio), Reed, Seattle University, Creighton, Tulane, U of Miami, U of San Francisco, U of San Diego, Creighton...</p>
<p>St. Louis University</p>
<p>Add University of Wisconsin, Lewis and Clark, Carnegie Mellon, University of Rochester.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions! I just wanna point out that Lewis & Clark is definitely not urban. It's in the outskirts of Portland and is very hidden..lol</p>
<p>By urban, I do mean in the middle of the action.</p>
<p>By medium city, I mean a city like Portland, OR or Baltimore, MD.</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh is another place that you might want to check out.</p>
<p>Goucher in Baltimore, Mills College in Oakland, Univ. of SanFrancisco in SanFran.</p>
<p>St. Louis University.</p>
<p>University of Washington</p>
<p>Drexel (Philly) could be a good safety.</p>
<p>Holy Cross</p>
<p>These schools are all over the place! Go to UW-Madison and you will be happy.</p>
<p>like NYU: BU, McGill, Northeastern, UToronto</p>
<p>like USC: Syracuse, UMiami(FL), Tulane</p>
<p>like Johns Hopkins: Case Western, Rice, CMU, Tufts (last 3 not easy to get into)</p>
<p>Bentley College (where I'm planning to transfer to or somewhere out west) also NYU would fit the urban description</p>
<p>My top recommendations for you are:</p>
<p>Northeastern
George Washington
Case Western
U of San Francisco
University of Rochester
Syracuse
DePaul</p>
<p>Also, lets make some clarifications here, not to be critical, but just for SoConfused beneift, so he know what he's looking at...</p>
<p>Mills College, yeah but it's in the middle of a forest with no public transportation.</p>
<p>Bentley College and Boston College... both are suburban, and not to be crude, but living by both, you will never know that Boston is anywhere near by, same for Wellesley and Babson.</p>
<p>For Boston, Tufts, Harvard, MIT, & Lesley are the only schools outside of the city which still feel like an urban setting.</p>
<p>Villanova is suburban; the sandstone buildings and monastery really make that clear, same for Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr</p>
<p>Reed...you wont be enjoying the city as much as you'll be reading all those books, but yeah, it's there</p>
<p>Clark University, University of Puget Sound, and American University...each of these are relatively close to cities, but Worcester, Puget Sound, and Embassy Row in D.C. are noy very active, urban, nor lively places in the sense that you're looking at.</p>
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<p>Other Good Options:
Boston University
Loyola (Chicago)
Marquette
Fordham
Trinity
Creighton
Tulane
Carnegie Mellon
Drexel</p>
<p>Tufts does not feel like an urban setting at all. Yes, you can see the Boston skyline from the highest point but it looks extremely far. Somerville and Medford don't give an urban feeling to them at all unless you call having roads of those two towns running directly though campusurban which most people don't because both towns are very small.</p>
<p>For Boston the only places that are truly urban are Northeastern, Boston University, Suffolk, Emerson, Berklee College of Music and Wentworth.</p>
<p>The next closest places to feeling like you are in Boston would be Harvard, MIT and Bentley.</p>
<p>Wellesley and Babson are a lot farther and truly feel suburban.</p>
<p>I would not put Univ. of SF even vaguely on the same level as Rochester or Case Western. The quality of the USF student body has declined considerably over the last 5-10 yrs. Therefore, either they're accepting students from high schools with epidemic grade inflation, or they've lowered their requirements for admission. USF used to be a much more competitive school all-around, but especially in certain fields.</p>
<p>Conversely, I would not classify Carnegie Mellon as moderately selective; rather, highly selective. </p>
<p>Many of the schools that people are listing are indeed urban, or urban-ish, but I see a huge range of selectivity in many of these lists.
JMO</p>
<p>A couple more - University of Tulsa and University of Denver.</p>