<p>My son wants to go to a college that is located in a borough or small city with places to walk to from campus if he wants to do some shopping, eating, etc. Can anyone recommend colleges in PA, NJ, DE, MD or VA? I’ve been trying to find pictures of the surrounding neighbor hoods before driving to colleges that are in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Depends on your student’s scores etc. Any ballpark so I can make a better recommendation? I would also make use of the SuperMatch College Search, which CC has, to do a search for the size and campus setting of schools your son wants in that region </p>
<p>As of the end of his sophomore year his gpa was a 3.7, he hasn’t taken the sat’s yet.</p>
<p>Lots of PA students are attracted to PSU’s small town feel. Certainly you can walk to just about anywhere in the community from campus, and where you cannot you can find public transport readily. The town abuts the uni, and there are many restaurants, bars, laundries, hardware stores, art galleries, etc. The department stores and grocery stores are a bus ride away from campus. PSU is pretty much two hours from anywhere that could be called a city, but students seem to like the place a great deal. That is, it seems self-sufficient. It is a tree-filled campus with a lot of limestone and granite construction.</p>
<p>Muhlenberg College is located in a residential neighborhood of Allentown, PA, and thus a car or public transportation is necessary for reaching most resources the college doesn’t supply. Lovely campus, lots of history and music downtown, but again they’re downtown and not adjacent the school.</p>
<p>UMD is located just outside DC on a commuter rail and bus line. It abuts the town of College Park, itself a densely populated area, where there is everything you need within walking distance except maybe a grocery store. A major commuter thoroughfare runs thru the campus, and public transportation is very good. The campus itself is quite quiet and isolated from the major roads that surround it, however. Its architecture is Georgian for the most part. It has many trees but a great deal of open space as well.</p>
<p>My experiences at UVA are fewer than they are with the two schools above but my recollection is that it is very similar to Penn State in terms of large enough to have the resources in-town that students usually need. Good eateries, bars, laundromats, etc. Beautiful campus, lovely trees, and T-J designed quad. William & Mary, the other VA school I know well, is an old colonial college that has maintained its beautiful British Colonial appearance. It is not far from all the necessities as well, and in addition has the Colonial Williamsburg project next door. Great place to study American history and politics, but it’s also strong in the sciences.</p>
<p>It’s a start. If you could be more specific about his interests, prospective major, etc. it would help us recommend schools.</p>
<p>using google maps, hybrid version, can help. You can zoom in and labels will show you where shops and restaurants and what have you are located.</p>
<p>do you have a budget for college or are you happy to pay 55k or more per year for any school?</p>
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end of his sophomore year his gpa was a 3.7, he hasn’t taken the sat’s yet</p>
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<p>He will take the psat in October, hopefully, and that can be an important test.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for all the great info.! He’s not interested in Penn State due to the large population but I’ll definitely consider the others.</p>
<p>Check out virginia tech. its in a college town.</p>