<p>Is</a> Your College Student Safe at School?: Special Report | Education | Reader's Digest</p>
<p>Also look at the PDF reports on page 1 of this article.</p>
<p>I just saw this in my hard copy last night... interesting information, but I wondered how they compiled their data. I'll have to go back and look at it again more thoroughly.</p>
<p>The listed schools participated in a survey. Many schools declined to participate in the survey.</p>
<p>There are many more links on line with the article that might not be in the hard copy.</p>
<p>Always important + interesting info. This topic has come up a lot lately, so I apologize if I'm giving the same warning I've given before...</p>
<p>Take all of this with salt, and, wherever the info is relevant, be sure to seek a better idea of context. Some of this data is unintentionally misleading, some schools are much better at reporting (and responding to) incidences, some low-crime schools may nonetheless lack effective security resources/policies...numbers don't tell the whole story.</p>
<p>Just to give an example, here's a Pomona College article written last year, which refers to a similar article by Forbes (never published) and gives some context for the report's raw numbers, which were also used in RD's Campus Crime ranking:
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Eleven of the 13 of the reported vehicle thefts involved missing golf carts apparently stolen by students for “joyrides” around campus, and more than 20 of the reported 71 instances of property theft have been attributed to a single culprit who was quickly apprehended in the fall of 2005.
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<p>Pomona</a>, Dangerous? College Rallies Against Designation - The Student Life</p>
<p>Of course, I don't think the raw numbers should be ignored. Absolutely not. Just further explored.</p>
<p>ETA: The Claremont Colleges declined participation in this survey...my assumption (and that's all it is!) is that the Forbes almost-incident may have been a contributing factor...</p>