<p>Two UPenn students were raped last week when, as they were leaving the apartment, someone in the hallway forced them back in. This is the type of crime that can happen to anyone, anywhere, and why students need to be alert constantly to their surroundings.</p>
<p>UNC, Duke, and UVa have had a surprising amount of crime on students recently.</p>
<p>Georgetown is relatively safe, though a lot of stuff still happens, as it's still DC.</p>
<p>VA tech- not the safest thing mainly because of the recent crime or was it some other U</p>
<p>2putters- the Penn sexual assaults were NOT on the Penn campus. In fact, they were in an area that is about 3 blocks into west Philadelphia beyond where most undergrads live. There are a number of students who do live out that far, but they are mostly grad students. That area is much more questionable than the area 3 blocks closer to campus. The Penn campus and the surrounding few blocks are very busy, well-lit and as safe as an urban area is going to be. Thefts are a bigger problem than assaults.</p>
<p>Any campus can be unsafe. Believe it or not but even ivy league students commit violent crimes, it's just that they tend remain unreported. Ever heard of date rape? It's a major problem at most colleges and almost always involves students abusing other students. College students, particularly young women should be very careful, especially when they're intoxicated. Always party with friends and call campus safe rides if you have to walk by yourself at night.</p>
<p>I know this is kind of off-topic, but I can't help noticing that 2putters is trying to mock me with his (or her?) name.</p>
<p>^ lol, could be true</p>
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On campus 2007 crime statistics:</p>
<p>Sex offenses (forcible)
UVA- 4
Wake Forest- 4
Duke- 5
William & Mary- 5
UNC- 7</p>
<p>Robbery
Wake Forest- 0
William & Mary- 0
UNC- 1
Duke- 2
UVA- 6</p>
<p>Burglary
UNC- 12
William & Mary- 21
Duke- 63
UVA- 73
Wake Forest- 86</p>
<p>UNC seems to be the safest, followed by William & Mary and Duke.</p>
<p>2 iron...no mocking intended, sorry! 2 was random (hadn't seen/noticed your name) and putters is not a golf reference. I regret my choice of name, but don't think I'll go through the trouble of changing it at this point...As far as MOWC's attack of my post, the Penn campus map extends to 43rd and Spruce (the map on their website) and the rapes happened at 44th and Spruce. I don't think it matters whether one considers that "on" or "off" campus...it's ONE block. And they were Penn students (age 22 and 24). Whether or not they were undergrads or not shouldn't matter. I am sure that even undergrads walk off campus occasionally.
Thefts may occur more frequently than rapes, but I am also sure, as far as them being a "bigger problem", the student would much rather have had the criminal that approached her at knifepoint at 3:00 in the afternoon, forced her into her apartment, then held a handgun to her, robbed her of her I pod, cell phone, laptop and cash, just stopped there, with the theft. But, instead, he bound, blindfolded and gagged her, and after being tied for an hour, her roommate unfortunately came home, and he robbed her and proceeded to sexually assault her for several hours. I'm sorry to be so graphic, but it is a fact that this horrific crime happened and it happened in very close proximity to a college campus where students do actually live and it shouldn't be brushed off.I'm not here to defend Penn and make excuses, just state the facts. And, yes, this kind of crime can, and does, happen at many campuses every year, sadly, and that is why our children need to constantly be aware of their surroundings and safe to the best of their ability.It's very, very scary. They need to take advantage of shuttles and security escorts, even if its mildly inconvenient or uncool. They need to stay on campus if they are able, even if the security provided in a dorm seems excessive to them (and dorms are uncool).No propping open doors or allowing anyone with an excuse into a facility. I don't believe it's in anyone's best interest to try to down play the magnitude of this crime--except alumni not wanting their school's rep damaged, or the school's themselves. But they are not my concern.</p>
<p>Most Unsafe
Wayne State University- it's in downtown detroit...enough said
University of Detroit Mercy- also in detroit (it has a freaking wall built around it)</p>
<p>According to this link, Johns Hopkins is ranked #1 by Reader's Digest magazine of "Most safest campus" in America. </p>
<p>Ranking</a> the Safest (and Worst) College Campuses | Education | Reader's Digest</p>
<p>AFAIK, Hopkins has poured millions of dollars of resources into improving campus safety after the wake of a student (a sorority President actually) was found murdered in her apartment killed by some stranger who creeped into her apartment in 2005.</p>
<p>This includes investment in state of the art cameras installed in all of dorms that has capability to detect and alert authorities of 'suspicious activities/behaviors', tripling the number of security details on bicycles, in patrol vehicles, and on segways, just beefing up security detail everywhere.</p>
<p>The University received 92 gun shot detectors safety systems from a security company to be installed on every street corner within a 1km radius of the Homewood campus. It is the first university in the country to install devices that work on echolocation to detect gunshots.</p>
<p>2putters- The Penn campus does not extend to 43rd Street. There is Penn police patrol to 42nd or maybe 43rd, but it is OFF campus. There is no Penn police patrol where this assault happened. I am not promoting the safety of the area around Penn. As anyone who reads my posts knows, I am not a big Philadelphia fan (and I grew up there and did some coursework at Penn). However, the campus and the immediate area is fine. It's not Sewanee or St. Olaf, but it is brightly lit, there are 24 hour businesses and you have to work pretty hard to be isolated.</p>
<p>This is an interesting thread.
I agree with U of Chicago (south side is a scary place) and Yale for unsafe. Safest would be Harvard and MIT, and maybe Brown. Boston & Providence are very "posh" but this isn't a guarantee that there will never be any danger. Anything can happen anywhere. (just look at Virginia Tech)</p>
<p>Just curious, does anyone know how "safe" (based on comparisons) Pratt Institute is? Its located in Brooklyn, NY.</p>
<p>The greatest danger at all colleges seems to be falling or some other accident when drunk.</p>
<p>The list in the link is flawed. I think it's based on the amount of campus security, because the "least safe schools" tend to be in really laid-back, rural areas. These schools rank so low because they don't have lots of security because they don't need it. I mean, who would think Carleton is unsafe?</p>
<p>Dangerous:
IPFW</p>
<p>All schools which receive federal financial aid are required to collect and disseminate their campus crime statistics. Ask the Admissions or Financial Aid Office where to find them.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p><a href="mailto:Tara@FinancialAidSolutions.com">Tara@FinancialAidSolutions.com</a></p>
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<p>Extremely doubtful. College</a> Navigator - Massachusetts Institute of Technology</p>
<p>MIT had 3 times the number of burglaries as Georgia Tech, and Harvard has even more than MIT, and I don't think anyone is going to say Georgia Tech is a safe campus being in midtown Atlanta. Looking at random schools, it appears as if Harvard and MIT are some of the LEAST safe schools.</p>