<p>Premed, what do you mean by “don’t have a distinct campus”? Do you mean a place that has a lot of buildings interspersed with non-college buildings (like George Washington Univ. in D.C), or that has a lot of traffic running through it but otherwise is distinguishable from non-college entities (like, say, Penn), or what? I can’t see how some of the schools could be an issue by any stretch. I live in Berkeley and have to drive around it’s decidedly distinct and self-contained campus every day. </p>
<p>And why would you flat out cross a school off your list just because it’s campus isn’t “distinct”? Swarthmore flows nicely into the surrounding neighborhoods and isn’t fenced in, but those neighborhoods are so sparsely populated that I can’t see it’s failure to be distinct to be a negative. On the other hand, Johns Hopkins makes it very clear when you’re leaving campus, but Baltimore pretty much crowds in on you on all sides.</p>