Philadelphia homicide rate highest in the nation - DP

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<p>The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Philadelphia homicide rate highest in nation</p>

<p>Something to keep in mind for future applicants.</p>

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<p>Aren’t you really a ■■■■■ who is attending Columbia?
Or, was the post below just a lie?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/1183470-switching-jj-single.html#post13019569[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/1183470-switching-jj-single.html#post13019569&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ It was true. That’s all I’ll say. :slight_smile: And I do attend Penn.</p>

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<p>As soon as I saw that article on The Daily Pennsylvanian web site, I just knew that our resident anti-Penn ■■■■■, PrincetonDreams, would rush here to post it. :)</p>

<p>So predictable. ;)</p>

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Yet you spent all of the first semester of your freshman year at Columbia: </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13660697-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13660697-post5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So if you do attend Penn (which I highly doubt), you’ve been there a total of, what, one day? (Spring semester started yesterday.)</p>

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<p>Trolls will be trolls.</p>

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<p>Philly is dangerous in areas but not around U Penn. Penn admin know the stats and there are cameras and bike patrols on every street for many blocks beyond the central campus- this isn’t because they’ve had problems but to certainly reassure parents and prospective students not to worry. I’ve loved U Penn for my three plus years.</p>

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<p>Then you stay away from the dangerous parts of Philly. Problem solved.</p>

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<p>Trolls gonna ■■■■■</p>

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<p>You gotta pay the ■■■■■ toll</p>

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<p>Philly isn’t really that bad, leave Penn alone.</p>

<p>New Haven on the other hand…</p>

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<p>Okay so Philly has a high homicide rate. That doesn’t mean PENN has a high homicide rate. Seriously…Penn is like the safest place ever!</p>

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<p>^ Hahaha. Penn is “safe?” Are you kidding me? Do you even go here? Do you even know how many students have been mugged at gun point on campus over the past two months? Do you even know that a dining hall was robbed at gun point? </p>

<p>West Philadelphia is creepy and gross. That has enough spillover effects.</p>

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<p>Comments of a Penn Alum:</p>

<p>"10 years ago, at the tender age of 18, I ran off to college on the east coast. Because all the “good” schools were back there. And also my perfect GPA, mix of extracurriculars, various internships, the fact that it was cousin’s alma mater, and maybe even a dose of affirmative action combined to get me into Wharton. That’s just not something you say no to.</p>

<p>So I settled in on the west side of Philadelphia. It was awful. It’s grey. I know it’s old and has a bunch of cool history (which, ironically, is the degree I ended up with), but the place is sad. Decrepit. Like having historical cache means it’s allowed to be dirty. If Philly was a person, it would be the disabled homeless Vietnam vet that sits in his wheelchair on the corner in any given ghetto that we all want to pretend doesn’t exist, who at one time was a war hero and is now just an embarrassment to society.</p>

<p>And it’s overrun with pigeons, which are the dirtiest animals. Like rats with wings. </p>

<p>I’m not the only one that thinks so. Forbes.com recently ranked it as the 5th most miserable city in the United States. From the article:</p>

<p>How miserable is Philly? The residents of the City of Brotherly Love once booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs at an Eagles game. Maybe it’s the long commutes, violent crime and plethora of toxic waste sites that has people grumpy. Philadelphia scored in the top 20 in all three areas.</p>

<p>And the picture that accompanies that quote is of a crime scene. With at least 12 markers for what…bullet casings? And it’s raining. Oh the rain! God hates Philly, so he’s always crying. That’s why it’s always raining.</p>

<p>Coincidentally, Los Angeles ranked 6th worst. Because we have long commutes. Yeah. I’ve always been a proponent of living close to work. If you don’t, you’re just an idiot and have only yourself to blame. But at least we don’t have “violent crime and plethora of toxic waste sites” to KILL us. Jesus Christo! We also don’t have a pro football team, but no one gives a [delete] because our top-ranked college sports and pro basketball teams keep us pretty entertained. Oh, and that entire industry of entertainment keeps us from going ape [delete] on a poor guy dressed like an old fat man at a damn football game. It was probably raining then too. Or worse yet, snowing.</p>

<p>Philly is a [delete] hole. And I have yet to meet anyone from there that wasn’t an idiot . I don’t say that to their faces, obviously. But I do feel sorry for them. And oddly superior. Actually, I feel that way about everyone I meet, but Philadelphians bring out a special type of pity.</p>

<p>Don’t go there. It’s almost as sad as Reno…which is where your dreams go to die. Philly, on the other hand, is where they go to be brutally murdered."</p>

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<p>Give it up, PrincetonDreams–we’re on to you. You don’t go to Penn, and never did.</p>

<p>And your recurrent anti-Penn trolling is pathetic.</p>

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<p>^@45Percenter: Like I said, I’d be glad to show the moderators my Penn email. And they can probably even tell that I’m connected from Philly (on Penn’s network). Trust me, I don’t have time to ■■■■■. And I don’t hate Penn either. :)</p>

<p>Btw, I know you work at Penn admissions, but no need to get offended when actual reality is told to prospective students as opposed to the BS your office churns out in folders every year.</p>

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<p>^ No, I do NOT work in the Admissions Office.</p>

<p>And I also don’t have a trail of previous posts demonstrating that I’m not telling the truth, unlike you:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13660697-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13660697-post5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So which is it? Are you lying now when you claim to be a Penn student? Or were you lying all last semester when you claimed to be a Columbia student?</p>

<p>Either way, your posts aren’t very trustworthy.</p>

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<p>I agree. Philly is definitely not the safest place on Earth. When my brother was attending Wharton, he use to hear gunshots at night. However, he had an apartment that was off-campus, so I’m not too sure about the campus itself. Every applicant to UPenn should be aware of Phlliy’s dangerous environment (disclaimer: I’m not saying that UPenn is dangerous). By the way, the topic creator might be a ■■■■■, but at least he updates us on all the bad stuff about Penn (his posting history is irrelevant in this case). Keep it up, PrincetonDreams! I’m your biggest fan.</p>

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<p>^ The places in Philly where Penn students go (University City, Center City, etc.) are–statistically and otherwise–no more dangerous than neighborhoods where other urban university students typically go (e.g., students at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, UChicago, etc.). Anyone who thinks otherwise has absolutely no idea of what it means to go to these top-ranked American urban universities, INCLUDING PENN.</p>

<p>To single out Penn among these urban schools for safety concerns is, quite frankly, nonsense. In the case of uber-■■■■■ PrincetonDreams (who goes to the extraordinarily pathetic lengths of pretending to be a Penn freshman to attempt to bolster his trolling), it reveals a not-so-hidden agenda of bitter resentment.</p>

<p>Fortunately, the 31,663 applications Penn received last year, its top-tier 62.7% admissions yield, and its top-level freshmen-retention and 4- and 6-year graduation rates belie the silly trolling by PrincetonDreams in this forum.</p>

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<p>^ I’m pretty sure Cardgames, a prospective freshman, I believe (Congrats btw. You’re going to love the program :)), and a relative to a recent alumnus knows a bit more about Penn than yourself (didn’t you graduate from Penn in the '70s?). That said, you’re a bigger ■■■■■ than I am. I know you work in the admissions office, so drop the act!</p>

<p>It’s about time people found out about Penn’s negatives as well, of which there are so many that, in my opinion, one would be better off at a Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth or Columbia than here. There are exceptions though.</p>