<p>St Louis will get up to 100 in the summer time, but Atlanta, where Emory is, will surely be as bad (if not worse). </p>
<p>Campus safety is fine 99% of the time, and you’ll most likely be here for 4 years and not have an unsafe encounter once. The unsafest part of the St Louis area isn’t even in Missouri. It’s 30 minutes away in East St Louis, Illinois, across the mississippi river. With any big city, there are areas you shouldn’t go to at 3am alone. With any college in a big city, there will be an occasional crime that is an outlier. The neighborhoods immediately surround WUSTL - like Frontenac, Ladue, and Clayton - are insanely wealthy and protected. I heard that excluding the North Shore of Chicago, those towns and neighborhoods around WUSTL are the most expensive in the entire midwest. Crime tends to stay in the shady parts and not overflow into the areas around WUSTL. Except for those extreme once-per-year cases, you really shouldn’t have any problem walking to Clayton, the CWE, or the Loop alone. And the majority of the time anyway you’ll be walking with other people and friends. </p>
<p>In the Biology major, you can choose one of half-a-dozen tracks to specialize in a certain field. Ecology is one of them. Here is information on that: [url=<a href=“http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/tracks.html#ecology]Tracks[/url”>http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/tracks.html#ecology]Tracks[/url</a>]
If you have an interest in ecology, you might want to double major in Anthropology as well. They have a concentration in Physical Antrhropolgy which might be up your alley. The Medicine and Society freshman seminar program would be a good fit for a freshman year experience, too.</p>