<p>Yup, those 4 B10 schools are definitely great choices as well.</p>
<p>Reading about it a little more, I found that I was being unfair to St. Louis. There are places in the St. Louis area that are pretty redneck and intolerant, but that isn’t the entire city and certainly isn’t the area near WashU.</p>
<p>The U of M is very popular with New Yorkers and those from the Tri-State area.</p>
<p>Several of my family members male and female attended the University of Chicago. Many urban schools have a similar issue.</p>
<p>Btw, Washington U in St. Louis is an excellent school and very difficult to get into.</p>
<p>^ Is that U of Michigan, Minnesota, or Missouri? </p>
<p>You felt the need to write out University of Chicago and Washington U in St. Louis, but had to abbreviate the other?</p>
<p>OP: What is significant about your kid being Northeast-raised? Why do you feel there may be issues with a midwestern or western school?</p>
<p>I think OhioMom was referring to Michigan since they have over 2,000 undergraduate students from NY and the tri-state area.</p>
<p>Maybe silence_kit is confusing “redneck” with “redbirds?”</p>
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<p>Do you have any evidence for that? What criteria did you use?</p>
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<p>@Chardo - The University of Michigan. Go Blue!</p>
<p>Chardo–because we are from the Northeast, we aren’t familiar with Midwest/Western schools to the same extent as Northeast/Mid-Atlantic options. Since my kid is strong in math and wants to major in it (at least at this point), and given her background and GPA/boards etc., she has seen/would be a good fit at NYU (although probably without aid–being Hispanic is not a big deal there), Smith (bit of a reach but doable if she keeps her grades up), Rutgers (in-state tuition, possible honors program/merit aid), Boston University, etc. But I don’t know about the character/reputation of schools in other regions. I’m also wondering if geographic or actual diversity can help her in terms of admission to reach schools and/or financial assistance. And of course, I want her to be happy–so the culture can’t be TOO different.</p>
<p>Right now she is at 710 math, 710 writing, 590 CR.</p>
<p>You and your daughter would be totally blow away after seeing UW and UM compared to Rutgers. Just no comparison in the town and campus–like going from Motel 6 to the Ritz. I went to UW as an Hispanic student from NJ (Clinton) and they have some good aid for minority students including Hispanics.</p>
<p>Barrons,
Yeah, I am pretty sure it’s a whole different world! did you like UW? Would love for her to apply there. (And we live near you–South Orange–I work at Montclair State.)</p>
<p>Minnesota, Northwestern, Univ of Chicago. There are only a few Big Ten schools in major cities. These are the schools you should probably be looking at in the midwest, unless your daughter doesn’t mind living in a more rural enviornment like Madison.</p>
<p>With a downtown location in a booming state capital city with an urban metro population of over 325,000 there is nothing rural about it. Grinnell is rural. </p>
<p>NJMom–yes I liked it. It had everything you could want. And more. And I always felt the people at the UW really cared about the students. It’s not a by the book kind of place. For example a friend’s daughter thought she was going to graduate in biochem this year. When she went through the degree audit it turned out she was short one credit. A professor whose lab she was working in said–no problem. We’ll just set you up in a 1 credit independent study and you can write a paper based on the paid lab work you are doing over the summer and get the credit.</p>
<p>Informative, Michigan and Wisconsin are not rural. Michigan is in a mid-sized city and has easy access to the suburbs of a 1 million people city, including an international airport with direct flights to Asia and Europe only 20 minutes from camous. Madison, as Barrons pointed out, is a pretty sizeable city…and a state capital to boot.</p>
<p>In fact, very few Big 10 schools are rural. I think the only Big 10 schools that I would classify as rural are PSU and Purdue.</p>
<p>325,000 = rural to people from the northeast. I am sure that is cosmopolitan in the midwest, but not to someone from the northeast.</p>
<p>LOL! Informative, your comment shows a great deal of arrogance that I have grown to expect from East Coast residents. I grew up in a city where 80% of the population is international and consider Paris and London my second home. Even by my standards, Ann Arbor and Madison are enchanting.</p>
<p>^^ No need to be condescending. Ann Arbor, MI and Madison, WI are cities, not rural in the sense most people consider the term. Although, Ann Arbor neighbors a rural area, it is also not far from Detroit.</p>
<p>They aren’t cities either, “in the sense most people consider the term.”</p>