<p>“Actually, I found Coral Gables to be pretty bad.”
You are a comedian. Coral Gables is an extremely wealthy suburb were average home prices are in the half a million range. Average income for a household was $68,000. Average income for a family is $98,000.
why don’t u enlighten yourself:
[Coral</a> Gables, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Gables,_Florida]Coral”>Coral Gables, Florida - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Temple is located in an area were the average income for a household is $30,000. Its no wonder why so many ppl have commented its ghetto location.
if you go to **************, sure enough those comments plague the Temple review section by its OWN STUDENTS.
even a neutral site such as THEU, rates the safety as “Be Careful.”</p>
<p>“There’s no reason to be there, though”
in most colleges you do interact with the surrounding area. your comment just further supports my claim. you really have no reason to be there due to the danger in the area.</p>
<p>um, no, it’s a certain direction that’s where the crime is. People walk on and off campus all the time without problem. As I said, you’ve clearly never been to Temple, so you have no right to talk about it as if you have. As for Coral Gables, especially where The U is, it’s not exactly the nicest place in the world. I didn’t say it compares to North Philly, but it’s nothing special, and the school itself is incredibly ugly, overrated, and overpriced.</p>
<p>algorecousin said:
"A Dartmouth girl was murdered a few years back on parents weekend of all times…she had gone out drinking and was walking back to campus alone. Bad move. "</p>
<p>Not that it detracts from your basic point, the tragedy is still what it is and the school in question was in New England, but that happened at UVM in Burlington.</p>
<p>TUOwls, While I have never attended, I did apply and got accepted there 2 years ago. took a visit there and Drexel. While Drexel is the biggest dump I have ever seen, Temple was actually quite nice (the campus). Surrounding area though is really depressing which is why I scratched it off my list. When I applied
The school’s website made the place seem like its an easy stroll to Downtown Philly and in a pretty nice neighborhood. I obviously went with high expectations of the area and was uickly surprised to realize that Temple is located in the heart of a ghetto as opposed to being in the “heart of Beautiful Philly” as the school loved to claim. Frankly there is no possible way anyone can argue that certain parts of Temple surroundings are good and bad. the entire area was a war zone. You can call me crazy but you and I both kow I am not the first person to see Temple being labeled as being in a Ghetto. </p>
<p>as to UM, thats ur opinion. Id much rather be in the Gables in a lush tropical campus with a lake in the middle and perfect weather, than in the ghettos of Philly under lousy weather for the better part of the year.</p>
<p>My wife attended Temple from 1971 -1975 and never had a safety problem even back then. We both attended Temple’s law school from 1975-1978, same deal. We have many friends whose kids currently attend Temple and live in student housing who have never had safety issues. Temple’s campus and the development of surrounding areas have improved tremendously in the past 30 years and there is absolutely no reason to knock Temple off your list due to safety concerns or the “ghetto factor” (whatever that really means).</p>
<p>In addition, my daughter attends University of the Arts in center city Philadelphia and regularly goes over to University City, where Penn and Drexel are located, to meet up with friends at those schools. Never had a safety issue. We, again, have friends whose kids attend those schools who also have never had any safety issues.</p>
<p>I always have to shake my head in dismay about the alarmist and often uninformed views expressed on CC about the safety of schools in Philadelphia. There are more than 145,000 students attending colleges and universities in center city philadelphia and its adjacent neighborhoods. Philadelphia offers a vibrant, dynamic and exciting place for students to attend school, with a wealth of social, cultural, artistic and entertainment opportunities at their doorsteps. Does crime occur, sure, as in any city. But the likelihood of a student being the victim of crime, provided you conduct yourself with a modicum of basic common sense, is remote. Are there areas that you shouldn’t wander around in at night, sure there are, but there are also areas in my middle class to affluent suburban community I wouldn’t suggest wandering around at night in either.</p>
<p>my cousin sitting next to me will be a soph at Temple and he loves it haha. i haven’t heard any terrifying stories from him or any problems at all. he lives on campus too. he loves the city.</p>
<p>The people having knee-jerk reactions and defending the schools are ridiculous. You’re personally offended? That’s great–doesn’t change the crime rate. Wow, you grew up in an area with gunshots echoing in the air and you, having never felt afraid, are alive to tell the story? Great! IT IS STILL GHETTO. Believe it or not, whether you’re offended or personally fearful has nothing to do with whether a college is ghetto. And chiming in about all the upsides to living in an urban area is not the question. The OP is intelligent enough to have divined that possibility herself/himself, so it’s off-topic and completely unhelpful!</p>
<p>Every school that cropped up on this thread has cropped up for a reason. I’d advise crime-concerned readers to pay attention to them and ignore the silly defensive reactions. Most schools in urban areas are relatively unsafe, and that’s all that’s been established here; that fact is totally predictable, so I don’t see what’s so controversial about it. I guess the word “ghetto” probably does have racial connotations, so that’s a fair complaint. I’m trying to think of a fair word to use instead. Is “slum” better?</p>
<p>Unsafe schools:</p>
<p>Brown
U Penn
Temple
NYU
University of Rochester
Rutgers
University of Washington
Drexel
Duke
Syracuse
Northeastern
Northwestern
U Chicago
University of Maryland, College Park
Johns Hopkins
Fordham
UC Berkeley
George Washington University
Lehigh
Case Western
USC
Wesleyan
UMass (Amherst, Dartmouth)
Yale
Georgetown
Tulane</p>
<p>SAFER schools:</p>
<p>Princeton University
CalTech
Wake Forest
Bard
West Point
US Military Academy
US Naval Academy
US Airforce Academy
Pepperdine
Elon
James Madison
Bucknell
American
Villanova
University of Florida
University of Oklahoma
University of Nebraska
University of New Hampshire
University of Rhode Island
University of Maine
Boston College
Purdue
Santa Clara
William and Mary
Washington and Lee
Texas A&M</p>