It's very nice, safe, and the people are friendly. Excellent school district too. Schenectady and Troy are both quaint and lively. Both filled with artisans. However, you do want to watch your step in these areas. Both are home to a lot of impoverished people. Clifton Park is nice, but it is farther away from Albany.
Best Answer: Time Magazine had an article a while back on The Catholic Ivy League. It is not a real league but merely their way of saying that the following Catholic colleges were considered the best in the nation: Notre Dame. Georgetown.
What I'm going to say here about University of Notre Dame could be said about every college/university in the country. Notre Dame is an excellent school, ranked 20th in the nation (out of 1800 college/university). Each year, Notre Dame has an entering class of about 2000 college/university students. For those 2000 seats in its first-year college/university class, Notre Dame receives over 29,000 applications. About 2,100 (8%) of the 29,000 applicants will be admitted, since some people will be accepted at many college/university and will turn down Notre Dame's offer of admission.