I'm from the Boston area and was also accepted! Simmons is in the Fenway/Longwood Medical area. Fenway is exactly what it sounds like - near the baseball park, and there are a bunch of different schools that make up "the colleges of the Fenway" - all relatively small private schools (Emmanuel, Wentworth, MassArt, MCPHS, Wheelock). Longwood is known for having some big hospitals, like Boston Children's and Brigham & Women's. Very accessible by subway. So overall, I'd say a lot of young people and medical professionals. From what I remember from the info session, Simmons starts their program in the summer, and uses Harvard Medical School for anatomy lab. For undergrad, Simmons is an all-women college, and since they have a 3+3 program for PT, you can expect that most of the DPT cohort will be women. A PT at the clinic I work at graduated from there and was one of only 2 men in his graduating class. A professor I talked to at my info session said they try to admit a mix of men and women for the DPT since you obviously deal with a variety of patients, but they don't necessarily give male applicants preference. The high female numbers are bound to happen since the undergrad PT majors we join are already all women. So, that can make it very different from many other programs! Overall I'd say that Simmons is a well established program in the Boston area, and probably the smallest, in comparison to BU, Northeastern, and MGH. I am personally very seriously considering attending, since I could commute into the city from home, and Simmons has affiliation sites in most of the Boston hospitals and surrounding areas. Growing up around here I'm biased, but I love Boston and think it has a lot to offer. I've briefly been to the midwest once (Minneapolis area) and to me Boston is much different, but I'd highly recommend giving the area and school a visit at some point if you can! Good luck and congrats!