Suggest colleges and universities please?

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<p>I have two daughters, one a rising junior and the other a freshmen, and they decided to make dual visits to universities over their spring break of this year. At first it was just my junior but the youngest wants to visit a few, too. In some aspects they are quite similar: they both want smaller schools in urban areas. Junior wants to major in something science related, like psychology or neuroscience. Perhaps engineering. The freshmen loves math, history, and writing and has dozens of things she would major in. Narrowing it down would be her problem, but she’s interested in: political science, architecture, history, or web design.
They both really like the Boston, Atlanta, NYC, and Philadelphia areas.
We live in California.
They are looking for schools with an undergraduate populate of about eight thousand or less.</p>

<p>Any suggestions are helpful, I am not looking for one school that covers everything, just a few individual schools and thank you so much for people that can help.</p>

<p>Edit: I should mention that they are definitely towards the upper end of their class rank wise. The Junior got 2290 on her SAT and both were in a magnet “gifted” program since third grade.</p>

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<p>Boston College has 8500 undergrads and is a good school in one of those areas.</p>

<p>Fordham (in NYC) has 7994 undergrads. I have found that both of these schools are excellent for History (can’t comment on other majors).</p>

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<p>Tufts and Emory.</p>

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<p>Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mahr</p>

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<p>Look into Emory. In those cities, Emory is the best research university outside of the Ivies. Tufts, Brandeis, and the LACs already mentioned are great as well.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross-great science programs, one of a few LAC’s that produce Nobel Prize winner in science. HC has good political science program with many internships. Holy Cross has 1 US Senator, several Congressmen, Supreme Court Justice among its alums.</p>

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<p>I think of Carnegie Mellon and Rice. They’re both on the smaller side, in urban areas, and strong in the fields you named.</p>

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<p>For the Junior: MIT, Wellesley, Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, Emory
Freshmen: too early.</p>

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<p>Although they’re in smaller cities, U Rochester and Clark would also be worth a look.</p>

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<p>Yeah it is quite a bit early for my freshmen… she just wants to have a few to look at… get started early. She’s the ambitious one.</p>

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<p>Barnard jumps immediately to mind, fitting the small requirement better than most other urban schools I can think of.</p>

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<p>Although it’s not in the cities you named, Reed.</p>

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<p>boston college</p>