College Towns

tk21769
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:10:46 +0000

Possibilities (for the under 30% crowd):

UVa (~29% admit rate, Charlottesville)
Barnard (24%, women only, Manhattan)
Colorado College (18%, Colorado Springs)
Georgetown (17.4%, DC)
Cooper Union (15.1%, Manhattan)
Amherst College (13.8%, Amherst)
Vanderbilt (13.1%, Nashville)
USNA (7.9%, Annapolis)
MIT (7.9%, Cambridge)
Columbia (7%, Manhattan)
Harvard (6%, Cambridge)

The above college towns/cities will appeal (or not) to different people differently. Taking internship/research opportunities (as well as other factors) into account, IMO the best of the above locations might be Manhattan, DC, and Cambridge (depending on your interests and tastes).