<p>So I'm seriously considering attending Johns Hopkins but everyone keeps warning be about safety. </p>
<p>I was telling my TA that I would be missing her session due to the invitational weekend at JHU and a girl in my class told me she was shot on the JHU campus and transferred to my school because of safety.</p>
<p>Am I overly worried?</p>
<p>I've lived in Baltimore all my life in bad neighborhoods and goods ones including near JHU. It's not as bad as some people like to say and if you're smart, you can avoid trouble. Also, I recently read a Reader's Digest article that mentions Hopkins as having some of the best security practices.This is a subject that has come up plenty of times in the Johns Hopkins forum, so I suggest you search there for more opinions.</p>
<p>You might want to read through this thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/460485-college-safety-results-reader-s-digest.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/460485-college-safety-results-reader-s-digest.html</a></p>
<p>rovision: No one has been shot on the Hopkins campus, and campus safety is as good as it gets. In terms of safety, it has been ranked #1 in the country.</p>
<p>Where did I say, or imply, that somebody was shot at JHU??
The only comment I made was related to the fact that as long as guns are easily available to anybody, there's no real safety anywhere. At JHU, or any other school.
Talking about "safety", yes, it's very nice to know that JHU is putting more effort into this, but that doesn't mean that they solved the big problem. All these nice measures are more reactive than pro active, and will not help when somebody can simply walk into a classroom with a gun. At JHU, or anywhere else.
However, my post was meant to encourage the OP to go to JHU, and to read through that RD article.</p>
<p>so sorry, rovision. i meant to address my comments to cpyclocks. again, sorry.</p>
<p>cpyclocks: my above post was to assure you that no one has been shot at Hopkins. i agree that it would be a good idea to read through the rd article. this should help to assure you.</p>
<p>thanks everyone, you've made me feel a lot better. I really appreciate the responses!</p>
<p>Hopkins and Charles Village are as safe as any other city university. The area has seen massive development over the last 10 years.</p>
<p>I sent my 18 year old daughter there as an undergraduate (she graduated in 2006--and loved it BTW). She never felt unsafe on campus or in the immediate environs although, needless to say, Baltimore does have some very bad neighboorhoods that one needs to avoid. Of course, you can say the same thing about most large cities. I live near Brown U (in Providence) and most people think the area around Brown is safe. Frankly, I don't think it is much different in terms of crime than the areas adjacent to Homewood (Charles Village, Roland Park, Hampden, etc).</p>
<p>Often, when people speak of "Johns Hopkins" being in an unsafe neighborhood--they are referring not to Homewood (Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering) but to the East Baltimore campus which houses the Hospital, the Medical School and the Schools of Public Health and Nursing. That area has been very sketchy for a long time although Hopkins has bought up (and torn down) large tracts near that campus and it is slowly improving. It is, however, at least 3 miles from Homewood.</p>