<p>Will going to a school near a large city (LA, NYC, etc.) be more beneficial in the sense that there'll be more opportunities to shadow or do internships? A lot of the LACs that I'm looking at are 1-2 hours from large cities, so I was just wondering if location has a correlation with the job experience one gains during college.</p>
<p>There may be some more opportunities (I think students at Macalester, for instance, have some good options because it is pretty easy to hop a bus to downtown Minneapolis or St. Paul). But my D1 went to Dickinson in Carlisle, PA, which is fairly small and not very close to a major city. She had one internship during the school year at the Army War College in Carlisle. She also did a semester program the college offered in DC, and interned at the state department during that semester. And got a few other summer internships on her own (two in our home city and one in DC for senator). So she didn’t find the location of Dickinson detrimental at all. Her boyfriend interned at a few places in his home city (Baltimore) in the summers (interned at the Small Business Administation, in the budgeting area of a government agency, and for Deloitte). He ended up working for Deloitte after graduation. So the location that wasn’t too near a big city didn’t seem to hurt him either.</p>