My daughter got accepted fro the Fall 2016 semester. After our campus visit, I was a bit concerned about the proximity of some questionable neighborhoods. Anything I should know about before she accepts?
On our campus visit, I found the campus to be exceptionally well-lit and well-patrolled, and the street activity to be pretty tame. I saw people on the street, and they were students and non-students, just going about their business, which actually made me feel safer having activity besides just me. It’s an urban area, and it’s going to look grittier than a suburb or a college town, but living as we do in a large Midwestern city, and being used to an urban environment, we didn’t feel unsafe at all. When we arrived, after depositing my son (also enrolling next fall) at the Conwell Inn, I walked all by myself up Broad Street to the Rite-Aid to get a few things we forgot to pack. At that hour, you have to be aware of your surroundings, stay toward the street and away from doorways, alleys and the like, all common sense things - and all things that students are well advised to do in pretty much any college town, urban, suburban or rural. But that just goes to say that it didn’t appear to be any more or less dangerous than any other well-populated area.
on campus is fine. you need to be careful off campus. SW side of campus, off campus is safest. north gets bad fast. South seems mostly working class and east can be dicey. All of these are regarding off campus.
on campus even at edges is still very safe.
Thanks everyone.
i just leraned over weekend temples patrol zone is very safe. you can look this area up on temples police website