<p>AT9, I don’t know that I’d put UChicago.</p>
<p>I lived in a condo across the street from campus for 4 years at UChicago. Campus is nice and several surrounding blocks as well. Then there is a line that is crossed and you get instant ghetto. Night and day. It is freaky. One side of the street is upscale and the other ghetto.</p>
<p>Only school that I saw first hand in a wealthy area is Villanova</p>
<p>Isn’t BC located in an affluent area?</p>
<p>Chapman is located in a solidly middle class area. Not all of Orange County is rich :)</p>
<p>Wellesley College</p>
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<p>If you just mean upscale compared to its surrounding neighborhoods, Carnegie Mellon is in a very upscale and nice part of Pittsburgh. Still a heck of a lot cheaper than most other cities you’ll find, too.</p>
<p>Lake Forest College.</p>
<p>if you guys think princeton is in an “upscale” area, then you’d think my hometown is even ritzier. ( princeton avg household income - $94,580 vs my town of $149,240 Source: wikipedia)</p>
<p>anyways, Ive always wondered what the same thing as the OP, but didn’t start a thread because people like diontechristmas would bash me and my car lol.</p>
<p>Anyways, in MY opinion. the only real mid to larger sized colleges in rich areas are-
- Pepperdine
- BC
- UCLA
- Providence College</p>
<p>Villanova, Bryn Mawr, Haverford are all on the Main Line, which is a very affluent area in the suburbs of Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Salve Regina, as small catholic school, in Newport Rhode Island is in a waterfront Mansion sitting among the incredible belle epoc mansions on Bel view adn Ocean avenues. Summers are tre glitz, with the marina full of yachts and Harvard undergrads serving in the restaurants in tails.</p>
<p>“AT9, I don’t know that I’d put UChicago.” </p>
<p>Really? I could be completely wrong, because I’m not that familiar with UChicago. But isn’t that the area where Obama lived in his million dollar house?</p>
<p>UCSD is in La jolla, which would be the most expensive zip code if it could separate from the city of san diego.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill - UNorth Carolina
Williamsburg- William & Mary
Emory-Buckhead Atlanta</p>
<p>As much as I love my fellow Jersey residents, BMWdude335, I literally just searched two schools that were in this thread but that you excluded from your list, and both were in areas that have higher median household incomes than your hometown: Villanova University and Lake Forest College. Also reconsider your definition of wealth… I then searched Irvine, CA, and while its numbers were slightly lower, Wikipedia said that it is the seventh richest city in the US with a population of 65,000+.</p>
<p>Pompousness fail.</p>
<p>I did a summer session at UChicago, and I loved Hyde Park: near the Max Palevsky Commons (where I lived), there were rows of small houses with stoops lining the streets with overgrown gardens and vines climbing over wooden or stone gates to the sidewalk. It was charming, and some students told me that the houses get a little bigger/nicer near the part where the Obamas live. I just looked on Wikipedia and the median household income is $44,142, which makes it kind of the sore thumb in the list of schools that you posted.</p>
<p>Rice == in a rich area… many doctor’s homes because it’s near a medical complex. Georgetown also.</p>
<p>Yeah, Rice is in the middle of Houston which is pretty upscale…SMU being in the middle of Dallas’ good side. SMU is probably the best-known “rich school” being that it used to be really prominent (it’s fallen a lot ever since its football team stopped winning all the time and academics aren’t as prestigious as they were) and North Dallas is amazingly affluent to most people. Other schools in nice locations…Tulane (Uptown New Orleans is pretty affluent believe it or not), Georgetown, OU (Norman is SMU wannabe), Lake Forest for sure, and anything in Boston or suburban Philly. I would stay away from UPenn or Drexel though if you want to be surrounded by money, since Philly proper is practically skid row.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one has mentioned Northwestern. Although Evanston has some bad parts (compared to some of the other suburbs around) the area around Northwestern, by the lake, is very upscale, as is downtown Evanston. And if you drive north along the lake, you will be confronted with huge lakefront mansions for many miles.</p>
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<p>No, but I’ll bash you because no one asked what the avg household income of your town is. Mine is ‘only’ $136,000 by the way. Darn.</p>
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<p>Represent. :)</p>
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<p>Glad to know you know nothing about University City or Philadelphia.</p>