<p>I'm planning a visit to Brown University this weekend, and I was wondering if there were any "top" schools around that area that I might've left out?</p>
<p>(and within reason for a weekend visit..Google claims that Boston U is only an hour away?!)</p>
<p>Tufts, Boston College</p>
<p>Providence is very close to Boston... you could do any Boston area college.</p>
<p>Yep. Or you could go west and do Hartford/New Haven schools like Trinity, Wesleyan, Connecticut College, and Yale.</p>
<p>Wheaton is about 20 minutes east of Providence, but I absolutely loathed it and don't recommend it whatsoever. For Greater Boston schools, you have Tufts, Boston College, Wellesley, Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University, Emerson, Simmons, Suffolk, Babson, and many others.</p>
<p>If you're interested in the Five Colleges, Northampton's not too far. You could also head to Worcester and see Holy Cross, Clark, WPI, or any of their local colleges.</p>
<p>Obviously you can't go in every direction, but wherever you go, you have lots of options. :)</p>
<p>Tufts, Wesleyan, Holy Cross, Brandeis are some very good schools.</p>
<p>Not so much Holy Cross...haha just kidding par.</p>
<p>NYC is a bit on the far side, maybe a few hours by car, but a visit to Columbia, in my opinion, would be worth it</p>