I think they’re defining the “area around MIT” to be Central, which, while not as dangerous as places in other cities, is the most dangerous part of Cambridge.</p>
<p>I just think it’s sort of bizarre, as someone who lived on MIT’s campus for five years – MIT is a place I (as a small transplanted Midwestern female) am comfortable walking by myself at any time of day or night. After all, there are always a large number of students up and about, except maybe around 7 AM.</p>
<p>Tufts really surprised me – is Davis dangerous at all? I’m in Davis at night fairly frequently, and I’ve never felt threatened.</p>
<p>Yep. Same here. I walked from campus to my ex-boyfriend’s house in Area 4 dozens of times, including at night, without feeling particularly unsafe. I walked around campus at night, by myself, quite often, and never felt at all unsafe. I think these rankings are crap. Schools that are diligent about reporting, or have successful programs to get their students to report sexual assaults, get penalized, and a school that has one outlier year will be affected considerably (since they only use two years’ worth of data).</p>
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<p>Actually, while Davis is very safe in general (the safest part of Somerville), my impression while taking classes at Tufts (and reading the crime logs in the student paper) was parts of the campus and the area just southwest of it, between the campus and Broadway, were like the crime magnet for the entire area. I lived a few blocks south<em>east</em> of it, just south of Broadway, for two years, and it was really safe - I was always surprised when I read the Tufts crime logs. Maybe any local criminals think that Tufts students are easy pickings or something. Or maybe it was very localized - there is a housing project right near that area that seemed to get most of the crime. Muggings and such were somewhat more frequent, based on the reports, than at MIT. It is still not what I would consider a dangerous area - you’re not going to be killed in the crossfire of a drive-by gang shooting, you’re going to be fine walking around alone at night the vast majority of the time - but as someone who has attended both schools, I actually think Tufts ranking slightly worse than MIT on this is correct.</p>
<p>It appears that the statistics cover any victims of crime within some distance of the school, as opposed to members of the university community being victims of crime, which is the primary statistic you’d want to know about.</p>
<p>Yeah, USC is not in a very safe area. The campus is nice though…just that when you get out of the campus, it doesn’t feel and look nice anymore!</p>
<p>"You obviously are clueless about L.A. I suggest you comment on areas you are familiar with. "</p>
<p>Protagonist clearly meant USC but said UCLA…lighten up.</p>
<p>As I recall, the Tufts medical and/or dental school is in downtown Boston…they clearly said that stats from that “campus” were included. I doubt if the the Medford campus alone would have put them that high.</p>
<p>While the Bowston arear isn’t all that violent, theah ah a wicked amount of burglahries theah.</p>
<p>It’s pretty difficult to actually be alone in NYC, when you’re out “at night alone”. If you go out by yourself, “wandering around”, chances are pretty good you’ll still be elbow-to-elbow with many people.</p>
<p>This is what actually makes NYC one of the safest cities in the U.S.</p>
<p>Makes no sense to me, as a four year resident (working on five) of Providence, one-time summer resident of New Haven (Yale), and lifetime just-outside of NYC resident.</p>
<p>There is very little crime in the side of Providence occupied by Brown, RISD, and Johnson and Wales (though PC is not in a great area).</p>
<p>The flaw of not looking at incidents students were involved in is glaring.</p>