<p>You might consider whether you want to be right in the city or near it. Some of the colleges mentioned here – e.g. Pomona/Claremont, Oberlin, Carleton – are not in a city. And I have to wonder how often people take a 30 minute ride to get to Cleveland. (BTW, 30 minutes through rural Ohio is a much longer drive than 40 minutes through Southern California.) Also, what kind of city do you want? Trinity is an exellent LAC in HArtford and very urban.</p>