Best of luck w/ your decision. One note about living in cleveland... Yes, Cleveland has some poor areas, but no, you won't be living there. Most students live a 10min. walk away in Cleveland Heights which is one of the nicest residential neighborhoods I've seen so close to a city in a northern city (and one of the wealthiest in cleveland). There's also a ton of other very pretty neighborhoods (check out fairmount, shaker heights...) that are a 10-20min. drive away. Long story short, if you want to work in the community in cleveland, there's plenty of areas to do so. If you want to live in a really nice area and at most, drive through poorer neighborhoods only when you want to get on the highway, you can do that too. I don't consider a 10 min walk or even a 10min drive much of a "commute." I just get annoyed when people talk about how "cleveland's just a ghetto" or whatever. It's unfortunate that the RTA runs from the airport to case through some of the poorer neighborhoods, but please don't judge the whole city just from a day...