<p>OK, if I were a parent of a kid between soph and jr year in HS, and I was sending them across the country for a summer program, I’d have Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh on the short list. Pittsburgh is a nice sized city, although it isn’t NYC or Chicago. CMU is within the city limits, but it is not downtown. The campus is nice and I am sure the kids are well supervised. CMU has, from what I understand, a really great summer program that gives kids a good look at what it’s like in a college MT program. Although I’m sure there are folks here who had kids go to the summer program, so they’d be better equipped to answer on specifics.</p>