College town satellites: Which college town located near a major city do you prefer? (compared, people)
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The main reason I voted for Lawrence is because I'm not familiar at all with Ann Arbor while I'm intimately familiar with Lawrence - my Mom was a Jayhawk. Although her degrees were in nursing, which meant she spent most of her time at the medical school in Kansas City, she did travel to the main KU campus from time to time while she pursued her MSN. It was a couple of guys who wanted to start a brewpub in Lawrence (Free State Brewing, still there) who managed to get the state to finally jettison its Prohibitionist and hypocritical liquor-by-the-drink laws. Lawrence has gotten even cooler since that happened.
But from everything I've heard, including the testimony of a good friend of mine currently pursuing an MSW at Michigan, Ann Arbor is even cooler still. And its county is part of metropolitan Detroit. (KU itself is the main reason Lawrence's county, Douglas, is not part of metropolitan Kansas City.)
Once known as a party school but greater focus since 2006 on improving its academic standing.
This is why I chose T-Town, and that's coming from an Ex-College Athlete. When it comes to fun and entertaining activities, that T-Town/Birmingham combination is unmatched. Same goes for Chapel Hill and Raleigh; I remember days where we used to be in NCCU, I very much enjoyed myself.
This is why I chose T-Town, and that's coming from an Ex-College Athlete. When it comes to fun and entertaining activities, that T-Town/Birmingham combination is unmatched. Same goes for Chapel Hill and Raleigh; I remember days where we used to be in NCCU, I very much enjoyed myself.
UMD and DC should be on here too imo.
How would you know that the breadth of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham activities/amenities are unmatched in comparison to say Boulder/Denver or Ann Arbor/Detroit?
How would you know that the breadth of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham activities/amenities are unmatched in comparison to say Boulder/Denver or Ann Arbor/Detroit?
HBCU presence.
DC has it, Raleigh has it, Birmingham has it....Detroit and Denver doesn't. Just my opinion though, if DC was an option, I would've picked it first.
Evanston....and very much so. It has turned into a very good college town with both city and NU (once the epitome of town-gown strife) worked together to energize downtown Evanston and make it highly attractive and serviceable to Northwestern students.
IMHO, Evanston does suburb-that-is-college-town better than any place else.
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