<p>Swat, MIT, and Cornell have reputations for lots of studying. Harvard too, but the grading apparently isn’t severe. Penn, Holy Cross, and Georgetown are right in the city with limited space…not the expanses of lawn like at Williams. Furman is gorgeous but I don’t recall much of a college town around it. Harvard is scattered around bustling Cambridge…very much an urban feel to it.</p>
<p>The rest that I’ve been to all have that true college feel you want: Williams, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Princeton. Don’t know about Haverford, Rhodes, Villanova, or Davidson.</p>