where do i belong?

i really want togo to school in new englandisharea. i like amherst, boston uni, boston college, ct college, brown, providence, northeastern, tufts, dartmouth, yale

i want a real campus!!! and i am looking for a real college experience - i want a school tht has good nightlife/ party scene!! i have a 3.85 gpa and my act score is 32 but im working on getting up to 34+. im a girl. i am not on any school sports, but i rock climb, am an intern at a hospital, camp counselor, and am doing a bib sib program through my school.

any suggestions??

Most of the NESCACs would offer you a traditional college experience, and their campuses generally look the part. Colgate, not NESCAC, might amp up the party scene from this group. For nightlife in a perhaps less traditionally collegiate sense, choose an urban school. In general, you may want to favor colleges with near 50/50 gender distributions.

What’s your budget? Some of the schools you mentioned aren’t the best with giving generous amounts of aid. Also you mentioned a “real campus”, and you mentioned BU. While I personally feel like BU has a campus feel, some of my friends disagree and said BU is much more integrated into the city than they like. Granted you have to make the judgement of what a “real campus” is, but I thought I should give you a heads up on that.

I really like BUs academics which is why it is on my list, but its campus is not what i am really looking for - it is very spread out in the city. and in my situation the financial aid is not a huge need so it is not a major factor in my deciding process, although scholarships are always amazing. thank u for opening up my views though!

In my opinion it’s not as spread out as you think! Instead of BU being a campus that’s in a circular/rectangular shape (I’m not sure if I’m fully making sense here) the school is just spread out along streets with parallel/adjacent streets having the dorms and extra buildings. Like I said it’s all based on preference. BC definitely gives off more of a campus feel.

Boston College matches your preferences & GPA/ACT better than most of the other colleges you mentioned.

Most NESCAC colleges would work, plus if you can look at bit outside if new England or Catholic: Holy Cross, Fordham, St Michael’s (safety), UScranton, Dickinson, St Lawrence, Vassar, Skidmore.

Yeah, I was going to say that Boston College sounds like a good fit for you - great school with good academics, real campus, and robust social life/nightlife/party scene both on campus and off.

If you’re willing to look outside of New England, another school that may fit is Vanderbilt. Nashville has a lively nightlife, Vanderbilt has a socially active student body, and it’s an excellent school with a beautiful campus.

Dartmouth has most of that but there’s not really “nightlife” in the traditional sense in Hanover. It’s going to be college students making their own fun in a small town, not urban nightlife.