<p>Hi,
I'm a college freshman trying to finish choosing where to apply for the fall of my sophmore year. I'm looking for colleges and universities that are in or near a city, have a core liberal arts focus, and a good reputation. My college GPA is a 4.0 and my high school GPA was a high three-point which was marred by a couple very bad grades junior year due to changing schools. My reach school is Barnard College, but I'm trying to find great match and safety places and not having much success.
Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Goucher, Drew and Ursinus.</p>
<p>Macalester.</p>
<p>Also look at Rhodes.</p>
<p>Agnes Scott in Atlanta is a good match/safety school with merit aid, diversity, study abroad and a good reputation within academia. It is actually in Decatur only one or two blocks for the subway...you need to visit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.agnesscott.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.agnesscott.edu/</a></p>
<p>Fordham! It's an amazing school. The pretty residential campus is just north of Manhattan, but they also have dorms and facilities further down in the heart of the city, for those who want to utilize them. Everyone I know who goes there absolutely loves it. </p>
<p>Also: University of Richmond (amazing and gorgeous LAC in VA), Occidental College (very strong gem school in Los Angeles), Lewis & Clark (solid LAC in Portland), and University of Miami (slightly bigger, but could still fit the criteria).</p>
<p>NYU, UCLA, BU, Northeastern, George Washington, Fordham, Baruch (CUNY), CUNY Honors, Hunter (CUNY).</p>
<p>@ TransferHopefulA</p>
<p>I would check out Northwestern, UChicago, Columbia, New York Univ, Georgetown, George Washington Univ, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, UCLA, Univ of Southern California, Boston Univ and Fordham. Almost all these colleges are located in or border urban areas.</p>
<p>Considering that his/her number one is Barnard, I'd gear away from Western/Southern schools for the simple reason that if you like Barnard, you probably love NY. I've been trying to think of colleges around but I was blanking out.</p>
<p>Add: Manhattanville, Bard, Siena or if you're looking out on the Island--Hofstra and Adelphi. You'd probably be in at both of those though... All of those are a bit north/south of NYC but within reasonable distance.</p>
<p>NYU and Columbia.</p>
<p>Eugene Lang, Manhattanville, and Fordham sound like good safeties for NY City. Northeastern, Suffolk, and Boston University would be good for Boston. George Washington and American sound good for Washington, DC. Remember, she is asking for safeties.</p>
<p>Also remember that she seems to be looking at more LAC-type schools.</p>
<p>Trinity College in hartford</p>
<p>Check out this thread:</p>
<p>How to say this gently? Don't use the word "urbanly" in any of your applications -- it doesn't exist.</p>
<p>Northwestern, UChicago</p>
<p>(Northwestern's located just north of Chicago, while UChicago is in the city but not in a very glamorous area, to say the least)</p>
<p>UCLA, USC, Columbia, NYU, UT, and any school in Boston =P</p>