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<p>Actually, I tend to think that Yale won’t be losing those who have always been dead-set on Yale itself. Those are the real applicants who won’t be bothered by this type of tragedy.</p>
<p>A star applicant could easily wonder why he/she should choose Yale over its peers (who have better safety) as long as there are multiple acceptances. Perhaps it might not stop him/her from applying, but it will certainly sway the yield when so-and-so is choosing between HYPS in April, etc.</p>
<p>if that’s the case, and they’re going on pure safety grounds, then among HYPS, an applicant would have to choose either Princeton or Stanford. Yale and Harvard both are in urban areas and have had murders in the last year. </p>
<p>Harvard’s was inside an undergrad dorm – someone who knew a Harvard undergrad was let into the dorm and then killed a drug dealer who was selling drugs to students. here’s the link in the NY Daily News:</p>
<p>[Harlem</a> man arrested in murder at Harvard is son of retired NYPD cop](<a href=“http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/05/22/2009-05-22_harlem_man_arrested_in_murder_in_harvard_university_dorm.html]Harlem”>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/05/22/2009-05-22_harlem_man_arrested_in_murder_in_harvard_university_dorm.html)</p>
<p>Yale’s was in a med school lab, when an lab tech apparently was romantically rejected by a med student – and it resulted in a murder.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I didn’t make myself clearer before. What I was trying to say was that (imo), star applicants will still *apply *to HYP (and all the others) as smart kids will and strategically do. But while these stars will apply, there is no guarantee they will matriculate.</p>
<p>(I should have made the distinction between applicants and matriculants clearer - apologies).</p>
<p>just to follow up, over at the Harvard forum, there’s a post about safety and someone included a link to an article that ran in the Daily Beast this fall about the 25 schools with the highest crime rates. as to top schools, here’s who made the list:</p>
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<li>MIT</li>
<li> Brown</li>
<li> Harvard</li>
<li> Yale</li>
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<p>(fwiw, the number one school is Emerson in Boston). so Princeton and Stanford are looking pretty good these days…</p>
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<p>agreed. cambridge is very urban, and i cannot believe that it is significantly safer crime-wise than new haven. coming from a small town, i felt more comfortable on yale’s campus than harvard’s (which is not to say that yale and new haven are actually safer), although i wouldn’t want to wander around either campus or environs at night alone.</p>
<p>btw, anyone have a link about the harvard murder? i haven’t heard about it.</p>
<p>Yale’s Central Campus (i.e. not Science Hill) is perfectly safe at night.</p>
<p>tres elefantes – here’s a news link about the murder in the Harvard undergrad dorm last may. the suspects were let into the dorm by a Harvard student, apparently –</p>
<p>[DA:</a> Harvard murder ‘drug rip’ gone bad | NECN](<a href=“2009 Home Design Trends – NECN”>2009 Home Design Trends – NECN)</p>