<p>Okay as a Harvard student I can definitely say it doesn’t belong this high on the list.</p>
<p>It isn’t really dangerous, I’ve walked around alone at night (2-4 in the morning) three dozen times and never had any problems. Honestly there has been one problem in the last 3 months… Some drunk girl was outside and fell on the ground and was calling her friends with her iPhone while laying down saying she can’t find her dorm and someone stole it from her.</p>
<p>One of my friends from high school just had to drop out of college at Temple because she was mugged twice, in broad daylight. When she heard her first gunshot, all of this happening within a month of being there, she left.</p>
<p>Now the reason Harvard is so high on this list? Because they force sex down our throats. We go to sex signals, have sex education meetings and orientation things about sex our first month here. Now you may say that doesn’t deserve the rating. Well when Harvard asks their senior girls if 1: Anyone has ever looked at their body without them approving. If answered yes, then they say sexual harassment. 2: Have you ever been reluctant to have sex with somebody but went along with it anyway even though they never specifically made sure you were ready to have sex with them? Answer yes, and they classify it as rape. No, I’m not kidding. Statistics we got in a sex signals meeting about 2 weeks ago said that like 35-38% of Harvard women are RAPED by the time they graduate. Yeah, right, okay. Ironically they don’t ask men these questions, when I’m sure some would answer yes to “Have you ever been unsure about having sex?”<br>
We also received statistics how 50% of Harvard students have not had sex in the last year, 30% had sex with two or more partners, and 20% with one single partner in the last year. Also statistics show that something like 39% of Harvard students have EVER engaged in oral sex. Yet… almost the same % of girls are raped here.
This is why Harvard is so high on the list. And even then, they are obviously excluding 99% of colleges.</p>
<p>Wow, USC isn’t on the list??? Have the researchers of this article been to the USC (university of southern California) campus and surrounding areas???</p>
<p>Sorry, but this is my third year here, and I’ve never heard of anyone being mugged twice, much less in broad daylight. I know around 2 or 3 people here who have been mugged, but twice? I walk around alone at all hours of the day, and the most I’ve had to deal with is being cursed off by a homeless guy. I doubt she was mugged right on campus, so she most likely was somewhere she shouldn’t have been. And she dropped out because of that? Come on… And the gunshots bit? Sounds like she didn’t research North Philly and Temple beforehand. She probably should’ve gone somewhere a bit more suburban. </p>
<p>If you want a fun little anecdote, my friend at BU was pistol whipped on Commonwealth Ave. It happens everywhere. I’d venture to guess your friend isn’t very street smart.</p>
<p>I am wondering why University of Penn and JHU are not on that list. I cut Penn out of my schools to apply to because of the Philadelphia violence. The number of police officers dead from civilian gunshots in Philadelphia is scary. West PHilly is not a safe place, and that list needs to be revised.</p>
<p>The list is obviously silly, but it’s also clear that there isn’t enough good data to come up with a non-silly list.</p>
<p>Obviously, you’re doing fine, bluewhitebulldog. But as someone with intimate knowledge of both campuses, I can guarantee you that you are not less exposed to crime at Yale than you would have been at Penn. Both places are fine – I went to college at one, and lived blocks from the other for a decade, and I am on both campuses regularly – but neither one is somewhere that you don’t have to keep security on your mind a little.</p>
<p>Oh trust me she isn’t street smart at all. She’s a nutjob. </p>
<p>She’s just an easy target. She’s ALWAYS alone, always talking on her phone, wearing skimpy clothes and high heels all the time, and she’s overweight. And she has a giant purse. I’m not saying she’s ASKING for it, I just mean she could avoid it better…</p>
<p>And no, she didn’t research it. And, because of her nutjob nature, the slightest things bring her to tears. I said she overreacted when she dropped out. But I’m just pointing out that gunshots are frequent around Temple and Harvard has had one shooting in the last forever, and it’s because this ■■■■■■■■ kid brought in a drug dealer and then tried to underpay him in the basement of (Hurlbut?) and the guy shot him, and yet Harvard is that high on the list and Temple is not found.</p>
<p>The issue that I have with this article is that the numbers that they cite for each individual school change, and they interchange on-campus with near-campus, and violent crimes with nonviolent ones.</p>
<p>IMHO, they intentionally skewed the numbers of a lot of these schools so they could get a lot of high profile schools on the top-25 most dangerous list. This article has about as much journalistic integrity as a supermarket tabloid, and it annoys me that some people take it as fact.</p>
<p>I sat next to a person who worked in Tufts security, and they seem to take their crime reporting very seriously, including everything from bike bells to forcible rape, assault, etc.</p>
<p>I currently attend Fitchburg State College, and I can safely say it’s position on this list is justified, if not a little low on the list.</p>
<p>I just started here, and I dorm here, and in the two months I’ve been here there’s already been numerous incidents with violence and widespread sickness.</p>
<p>For instance, the first few weeks of school, a girl on my floor and her friend were jumped and beaten pretty badly on their way back to the dorms. Another girl, although not on campus, was killed as well by her boyfriend at a house party. And just recently (as some may have seen from the news today) FSC is having problems with the Norovirus. Last night, over 20+ students were taken from the buildings Russel, Aubuchon and Herlihy with apparent food poisoning and extreme vomiting, but was later found to be the Norovirus. </p>
<p>It’s a good school, without all the badness that comes with it, but Fitchburg IS a dangerous city so make sure to take precaution.</p>
<p>So these colleges, is the evaluation based on the campus itself, or the neighborhood surrounding the campus too? Because there are plenty of schools with safe/great campuses, but if you wander a bit away, things get sketchy…</p>
<p>I don’t think I care that much about going to a “dangerous” school. A neighborhood kid found out how good my lab partner/the class of '11 val is at martial arts when he held her and her friend at gun point while they were walking to school from where their parents dropped them off. I’m used to life on the streets ;).</p>
<p>Harvard made this list? I wouldn’t associate Harvard as being a dangerous school at all. I can imagine a lot of other schools that should be on this list (although they aren’t) in place of Harvard.</p>
<p>To be honest in most cases the Campuses themselves are remarkably safe, but the areas might not be but the actual campuses tend to be safe. In every urban area (hence around every urban school) there are going to be places that are less than safe to be wandering alone at night. My solution is that if you want to avoid those areas during certain times then excersice your free will!</p>