<p>Sanguine–where are you from in MA? At least at my school (public, right outside Boston), 7 kids were accepted to Harvard last year (and that wasn’t just a fantastic year for our school).</p>
<p>theoneo, regarding post 234…</p>
<p>ive never heard of most of those colleges you listed…haha</p>
<p>Major Colleges in Massachusetts:</p>
<p>HARVARD, Cambridge, MA: The best school on the planet. The big H is nearly impossible to get in. Even applicants with perfect grades and test scores get rejected. </p>
<p>MIT, Cambridge, MA: The best tech school on the planet. You need to be a serious math wiz to get in. </p>
<p>TUFTS, Medford, MA: Great for liberal arts and international relations. Tufts has a beautiful campus in Medford. Rejects many good applicants due to “Tufts Syndrome.”</p>
<p>BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, MA: Jesuit School with the only D1 sport program in New England (except for UConn). Rah, rah, rah alumni network. Doug Flutie did a lot for this school. BC is hard to get into.</p>
<p>NORTHEASTERN, Boston, MA: Excellent co-op/internship programs with strong connections to the business community. The campus is an urban oasis. Lots of money spent on infrastructure and academics in the last few years. Northeastern is becoming more selective as of late. The school currently accepts about 40% of its applicants.</p>
<p>BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA: One of the largest private universities in the country. BU’s entering class alone is 4500 students (excluding part-time students). Similar to NYU, BU does not have a defined campus. The city is basically your campus. BU is especially strong in communications and biomed. BU accepts about 50% of its applicants.</p>
<p>WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Wellesley, MA: The Harvard of Women’s Colleges. The school has a beautiful campus in the suburbs of Boston. Wellesley is super hard to get into.</p>
<p>BABSON COLLEGE, Wellesley, MA: Very good business school that is well known for turning out entrepreneurs (consistently ranked #1 in entrepreneurship by U.S. News). </p>
<p>BENTLEY COLLEGE, Waltham, MA: Similar to Babson but not quite as selective. Bentley is well known for its information management programs.</p>
<p>UMASS AMHERST, Amherst, MA: The state flagship university. UMass is huge. In years past it had a reputation of being a somewhat of a party school. People used to refer to it as “Zoo Mass.” The five college consortium allows UMAss students to take classes at some great private colleges nearby such as Amherst. UMASS accepts about 70% of its applicants.</p>
<p>BRANDEIS, Waltham, MA: Small research university with excellent liberal arts and public policy programs. Brandeis is difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Mass. Schools- Williams -usually best LAC in country, Amherst-very similar to Williams with smaller enrollment, Holy Cross-considered best Jesuit LAC with very strong alumni network, Smith -1 step below Wellesley , Mt Holyoke-another good LAC.</p>
<p>bumppppppp</p>
<p>More Mass Schools:</p>
<p>EMERSON, Boston, MA. Great school for communications and the performing arts. The school has its own theater downtown. There is no real campus but many of the buildings over look Boston Common (a huge park). Emerson is moderately selective.</p>
<p>SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA. Tucked away on Beacon Hill. Somewhat of a commuter school (although there are now a couple of new dorms). Suffolk is a cheaper alternative to some of the larger private schools in the area. Suffolk accepts about 80% of its applicants.</p>
<p>UMass BOSTON, Boston, MA. Located in the Dorchester part of Boston. The campus overlooks the Boston Harbor/Dorchester Bay which is nice. except that it can really get windy outside due to the ocean breezes. UMass Boston is a commuter school. There are no dorms (although there has been talk of building some). However, the school recently built a new student center that is supposed to be amazing. UMass Boston accepts about 60% of its applicants.</p>
<p>SIMMONS COLLEGE, Boston, MA. Simmons is a womens college. It is well known for its nursing and library science programs. The campus is located in the fenway near the Longwood Medical District. Simmons accepts about 64% of its applicants.</p>
<p>nys SUNY schools are not very much so respected</p>
<p>some argue that geneseo and binghamton are, but its definitely not consdidered prestigious by the mass</p>
<p>STONY BROOK and BUFFALOO</p>
<p>Oye, UCR seems to be where everyone who wants to go to a 4-year university in my school. But we are like a half hour away from there, so eh.</p>
<p>I don’t hear much about it myself, I just notice that it influences us a lot (Student teachers, student dream schools, where our teachers were taught, etc.)</p>
<p>i’m from Rhode Island, so yes, one university, one state college, one CC.</p>
<p>University of Rhode Island - in Kingston, on the water, I’ve never been, but I’ve heard it’s pretty. Their major attraction is the Pharmacy program, which is extremely hard to get into for a state U. they drink a lot, never study, and it isn’t a great place for those with “alternative lifestyles” (or so says the princeton review).</p>
<p>Rhode Island College - very good teaching program, and a more liberal arts oriented place, a good value. for some reason it never makes the guidebooks, not sure why. right in providence (the best city on earth, duh) which has the highest college student per capita in the nation. not super residential, but theres dorms.</p>
<p>CCRI - three campuses, with one very new, CCRI Newport. The major ones are in Warwick and Lincoln, i dont really know, its a community college, you get the jist.</p>
<p>so, on to privates…</p>
<p>Providence College - the entire state roots for the Friars like their the NE Patriots or Red Sox, not a small college team. everyone from RI wants to go there, its a very good value. catholicy jockish school.</p>
<p>Roger Williams U - in Bristol, on the water. good Marine Bio program, best known for architecture and law. pretty location, but still easy to get into, party school, i think.</p>
<p>Salve Regina U - always regarded as a stupid school for catholic schoolers who couldnt get in much of anywhere else, but its gaining reputation pretty fast. most of its buildings / dorms consist of old mansions, (its in Newport) and yeah, as i said, its gaining a good rep.</p>
<p>johnson and wales - its where emeril went, known for chef school, baking, pastry arts, etc. hass programs in hotel management and ish like that.</p>
<p>Brown U - you know brown. on the east side, the artsy part of providence with large houses, ivy league, nice buildings, liberal, yeah.</p>
<p>RISD - best art school in the nation, shares stuff with brown. dont know miuch about the actual school.</p>
<p>i think thats it? yeah.</p>
<p>oh and the other mass state colleges are: westfield state, salem state, bridgewater state, fitchburg state, framingham state. (my town borders on 4 mass. towns, and actually used to be a part of massachusetts)</p>
<p>Can someone do Conn?</p>
<p>in texas- you guys are all forgetting southwestern university in georgetown…LAC with a good reputation, similar to austin college</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about the University of San Francisco’s rep?</p>
<p>Decent seemingly regional private religious school. Heard the nurisng program is good. Location is in SF (as the name might imply) which must be sweet. Those that I meet don’t seem very religious, but I’ve met very few students.</p>
<p>southwestern seems to be a party school to me… maybe bc of location. it’s paidea (sp?) program sounds interesting though.</p>
<p>anyone wanna tell me more about what youve heard about NC State?</p>
<p>University of Maryland College Park - 40% of my class gets in (or about 70% of those that apply.) Considered to be a solid safety school for most people (good engineering and business), has a good honors program, and is good for parties, etc. About 70 kids end up attending each year from my school.</p>
<p>University of Maryland Baltimore County - For people who can’t get into CP; considered good premed.</p>
<p>University of Maryland Eastern Shore - A couple people from my high school apply, not anyone I know, it’s a HBUC</p>
<p>Frostburg - Insanely easy to get into, considered a “hick school” by a lot of people</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins - Cream of the crop apply, considered really competitive and cutthrout, good med school</p>
<p>CONNECTICUT.</p>
<p>UCONN- flagship state university. academic reputation is rapidly increasing, and deservedly so. great honors program. whole state is crazy for uconn basketball. easily best public university in new england.</p>
<p>YALE- cream of the crop obviously. new haven gets a bad rep, but its really actually quite charming, and the area around yale is a very nice college town. </p>
<p>WESLEYAN- excellent liberal arts school. very liberal, artsy, lots of hippies, lots of hipsters. great humanities. tough to get into.</p>
<p>CONNECTICUT COLLEGE- very underrated liberal arts school. awesome academics, beautiful campus, great sense of community, big on international studies. 10 minutes from the beach.</p>
<p>TRINITY COLLEGE- the other great nescac school in ct (wesleyan and conn are the others). the preppiest and most conservative leaning of the 3. great for econ and poli sci. beautiful buildings.</p>
<p>QUINNIPIAC- pretty campus, not that competitive to get in but has some great programs, especially in the health sciences. also has a respected law school.</p>
<p>FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY- jesuit school, good connections in nyc, decent school.</p>
<p>U. HARTFORD - private school, not hard to get into, but their art school is one of the tops in the nation (HARTT). new engineering school may make it more competitive, and new interactive technology program is one of a kind. very jewish.</p>
<p>SACRED HEART U.- 2nd largest catholic school in in new england. dont actually know anyone that ever goes there.</p>
<p>US COAST GUARD ACADEMY- extremely hard to get into, right across the street from conn college, very rigid environment but extremely successful students.</p>
<p>central ct, southern ct, western ct, eastern ct- publics for people that dont get into uconn. central actually has some decent sports teams.</p>
<p>“Frostburg - Insanely easy to get into, considered a “hick school” by a lot of people”</p>
<p>frostburg state, right? if so, youre absolutely correct. it seems like its in the middle of nowhere to me</p>
<p>you might be thinking of the university of southwest texas which is in san marcos…that is a huge party school and very easy to get into. yes the paidea program sounds interesting</p>