Rank the Ivy League Schools -- According to Campus Safety

College Search & Selection
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<p>All of the lists that have been offered in this thread are basically just lists of the eight schools going from most rural to most urban. Apart from substance abuse and the crimes it most tends to perpetuate (date rape, vandalism, etc.), college campuses in general have much lower crime rates than comparable non-campus locales. My two Ds have been at Harvard for three years and for one year, and neither has ever had a scary incident or lost anything to theft (except for a jacket that D2 took off and left on a chair at a party).</p>

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<p>Tier 1: In an affulent middle-of-nowhere:
Dartmouth, Princeton</p>

<p>Tier 2: In a dreary, working-class middle-of-nowhere:
Cornell</p>

<p>Tier 3: In a small, nice city:
Brown</p>

<p>Tier 4: In a nice part of a city with dodgy parts:
Columbia, Yale, Harvard</p>

<p>Tier 5: In a dodgy part of a city with dodgy parts:
Penn</p>

<p>^ Haha, I think that’s genius.</p>

<p>But I do agree that usually the more rural the campus, the more one is inclined to think of safety. I also agree that the police forces of some of these schools, especially the ones smack dab in the middle of a city, are a tad underrated. I mean, they’re there for a reason.</p>

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<p>In terms of crime data, it seems that this is “safest” to most “dangerous”:</p>

<p>Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Princeton
Penn/Yale
Harvard
Columbia</p>

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On-Campus Crime Statistics 2005-2007</p>

<p>Sexual assault
Dartmouth 45
Harvard 45
Princeton 31
Yale 28
Columbia 19
Penn 18
Brown 16
Cornell 9</p>

<p>Robbery
Penn 47
Columbia 8
Yale 8
Harvard 7
Brown 6
Cornell 1
Dartmouth 0
Princeton 0</p>

<p>Aggravated assault 
Columbia 24
Harvard 18
Penn 14
Brown 8
Princeton 6
Cornell 5
Dartmouth 0
Yale 0 </p>

<p>Burglary
Harvard 847
Columbia 375
Yale 264
Princeton 136
Cornell 134
Brown 128
Dartmouth 122
Penn 106

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<p>Haha, robbery - Dartmouth and Princeton: 0. No one wants to journey that far to steal something…</p>

<p>But again, it does seem as if the more rural schools are the ones that are the safest.</p>

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<p>I would seriously reconsider this, and at least try to get more information than this thread has. A thread about ranking the ivy league schools by safety is obviously going to suggest they much less safe than they really are.</p>

<p>On the other hand, I don’t know how good the ivys are for baseball relative to Virginia, but that’s a separate issue anyway. And I guess Virginia is in a really nice area.</p>