Sort of random, but I know my S24 is being influenced by what he liked about his HS experience, and this was the setup there–very nice campus in the suburbs which has really been the focus of his activities, but the rest of the city is available for occasional other activities with friends, dates, and so on (this became a much bigger deal when he and his peers started driving).
Yeah, personally, I absolutely love Haverford’s location and connectivity to Philly and beyond (for that matter, connectivity to where we live). I just think for my kid, there was a sharply diminishing marginal value to all that. Like, to him it apparently means largely nothing that you can train to DC or NYC as well–his vision, for now at least, is satisfied by just one convenient city.