<p>haha i would really like to see you guys survive in a real hood.</p>
<p>Most people who go to college ARE rich spoiled snooty kids... so I doubt any of those folks (including me) could survive in a "real hood". Let's face it, college kids must have at least SOME money or else why aren't there a lot of ghetto children in colleges?</p>
<p>lol. im one of those ghetto children.</p>
<p>im so poor that i have the peace of mind knowing anywhere i go theyll have to give me a full ride.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech and University of Miami from what I hear.</p>
<p>Duke is not in one of the best areas as far as crime goes. The campus, however, is pretty insulated from these areas, in fact, when you're on it you feel more like you're in the woods then by a city, but as soon as you step off campus you better be careful</p>
<p>Sorry but UMiami is not in a bad area. Coral Gables is a very upper middle class suburb of Miami. There are parts of Miami which I've felt uncomfortable in, but Coral Gables has never been one of them. When I read this I did a quick search and found this from its chamber of commerce:<br>
Average household income exceeds $97,000
Median home values exceed $275,000
More than 50% of residents have a college degree; 25% have a graduate or professional degree........thats not too shabby......:)</p>
<p>johns hopkins, baltimore is nice in some parts, but it's really rough in other parts, and I know what ghetto is,</p>
<p>There are schools such as Case Western and Trinity (in addition to the other urban schools mentioned in this thread) which try to isolate themselves from the environment surrounding them. As with any college or university, the school will try its hardest to ensure safety and protection while on campus, but off campus (in the immediate areas especially), the schools can't guarantee safety even with patrols by campus police through adjoining neighborhoods. Students in such situations are encouraged to heed the "buddy system" and realize that their safety is indeed in their numbers.</p>
<p>If you are in Pennsylvania, have a clean background, and are over 21 you should get a concealed weapons permit. They cost about $20 or so. Then go take a course at the local gunshop and get some training in the defensive use of a firearm.</p>
<p>MrTrojanMan,</p>
<p>Saying Princeton is in a bad area is like saying Pepperdine is in a bad area.</p>
<p>The college in Philly that is in the more dangerous part of town would be Temple. Drexel is in a nicer area, as is Penn, but Temple...I know a lot of people who take the buddy system very seriously there. Once you get off campus there, it is a ghetto. Luckily there are public transit options that go directly to campus there if you want to go to, say, South Street for the evening.</p>
<p>"Most people who go to college ARE rich spoiled snooty kids... so I doubt any of those folks (including me) could survive in a "real hood". Let's face it, college kids must have at least SOME money or else why aren't there a lot of ghetto children in colleges?"</p>
<p>I'd say I'm an exception. I was raised in a lower-end middle class family in the heart of the city for most of my life AND I currently attend a top 25 school. Let's just say I got good financial aid which allowed me to attend the school. Also, I think I'd get by fine in any real hood. If being scared of the hood is the reason you're not going to a particular school, it's best to not even consider urban colleges.</p>
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Georgia Tech is NOT in the ghetto...the Techwood homes projects that were across the street from the campus were torn down years ago (I think when the olympics were here)...it really isn't a bad area...it's just like any other campus in an urban environment...and it's not really an "urban" campus either...</p>
<p>University of Maryland-College Park...beautiful campus, but venture beyond those bricks and the surrounding neighborhood is a bit shadey to say the least</p>
<p>It was mentioned earlier, but from what I've heard myself, Univ. of Cincinnati has to rank somewhere up there. I know 2 people that go down there, both agree, don't go anywhere after dark, know the shortest routes to where you need to go plus alternates & of course lock the doors. Oh, & it's not in your best interest to show up looking like country people, my 3 friends(they go to OSUs Ag. tech school in Wooster) went down there to visit got way more attention than they wanted! (Didn't get robbed or beat up, just a lot of scary looks from thug like people)</p>
<p>cinci is fine after dark...in fact I think it would be hard to find people out after 12 at all so not really a lot of danger. I saw a few hookers when I was in the ghetto of cinci but nothing that really made me worry or feel unsafe.</p>
<p>U of Cincinnati is trying real hard to buy up all the land surrounding the immediate campus to prevent some of the problems that have been going on. It probably still is one of the worst areas of the city once you go a few blocks off campus.</p>
<p>JHU definitely, like an above poster said</p>
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<p>Ummm no...Vastly exaggerated. Have you been there? I go there now for a college marketing class, my dad is an alum. I walk through those 'ghettos' every day. Sure it's not the nicest area, but I dont exactly fear for my life. No one comes up to me with a knife or a gun.... In fact, Drexel is pretty much just as 'ghetto' as temple, not really at all.</p>
<p>a friend of mine who goes to uchicago said that one of the university's biggest costs in terms of repairing buildings came from roof tiles that had been broken by bullets. quite possibly a rumor, though... when I visited, i didn't find hyde park too threatening, although i (110 lb female) probably wouldn't venture out alone at night. i've also heard that rice is in a kind of shady part of houston, a rumor that was reinforced by an adcom's response to my mother's question about campus safety: "well, we make sure that students never really have a reason to venture off campus in the first place, so it's not an issue"</p>