There is a new list out on sexual violence investigations and Stanford leads the nation.
Rapes by University 2014
Brown: 43
U-Conn.: 43
Dartmouth College: 42
Wesleyan University: 37
University of Virginia: 35
Harvard: 33
University of North Carolina at Charlotte: 32
Rutgers-New Brunswick: 32
University of Vermont: 27
Stanford: 26
I guess in 2015 Stanford took over the lead
I guess your kid got rejected
One pattern I see, in the data on rape, the Northeast has a culture that allows reporting of rape, so it is reported. It may not reflect any actual statistics of rape, remember this is REPORTED rape. The actual rape numbers could be very high at schools where there is not a culture of reporting. So these numbers actually may mean these schools are SAFER than then ones with lower numbers. The story at Stanford is raising awareness, but if you read the victim’s letter I don’t know that I would say she encourages reporting, as she describes in detail, subjecting ones self to invasive hospital procedures. After reading her 12 page letter, I don’t know that it will encourage anyone to get tested for “rape”… She was forced to go through it, because she was brought to a hospital in an ambulance after witnesses stopped the incident. The Stanford swimmer did not rape her, by the way, according to many state definitions of rape, depends on which state you live in whether what he did is called “rape”.
Data shows a pattern of Northeast schools with the most rapes… whether this is due to a regional “culture” of reporting is pure conjecture.
According to this report (using Department of Education 2014 source), Stanford has highest reported sexual assaults among colleges.
According to the dept of education Brown has the most reported rapes not Stanford. Harvard is 6th… Stanford is 10th. this is the same reference as the Washington Post article
Rapes by University 2014 (Department of Education)
Brown: 43
U-Conn.: 43
Dartmouth College: 42
Wesleyan University: 37
University of Virginia: 35
Harvard: 33
University of North Carolina at Charlotte: 32
Rutgers-New Brunswick: 32
University of Vermont: 27
Stanford: 26
@sbballer no my kid got into Stanford but they chose to attend another school because the fit was better elsewhere for them based in part on the campus culture. Also if you adjust your 2014 study for number of students Stanford handily beats out Harvard by about 50 per cent
@collegedad13 sure they did… nice try though. Stanford handily beats Harvard in a lot of things… but not rapes.
@sbballer you make lots of assumptions. What makes you think it is a son rather than a daughter? I think that just goes to prove my point . Are you a Stanford student or a high school student who wants to go to Stanford?
@collegedad13 everyone knows what point you were trying to make… you failed.
@sbballer I noticed you edited your post from “sure he did” to " sure they did". Just more evidence. Are you a Stanford student or a high school student?
@collegedad13 don’t worry your kid will get over it.
The rape numbers in post #1 seem very high to me. Especially when we know that a very low percentage of cases are ever reported. Basically these large schools have a reported rape per week. That is disgraceful. If that is accurate, then schools should be required to highlight that to incoming students, along with what they are doing about it.
@sbballer on another forum a poster commented that you always start out with Stanford is the answer now what is the question. I agree with that posters comment. You should try and be more analytical. I know you find it hard to believe that anyone could pick another school over Stanford. When my kid graduated from HS two kids including my kid got into Stanford and both chose different places. Both of them were women. I agree with @much2learn that if the numbers are accurate they are disgraceful.
I don’t think people should be fighting over which schools comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. if you are anywhere in the upper end of the list, it is bad. Bottom line all of these top schools have too many repressed boys who spent their teenage years on a desk studying super hard or practicing their music or sport or whatever and now they are away from that constant pressure and monitoring of home and don’t know how to deal with life. But saying that Stanford has a bigger rape culture problem that the other schools in the lair is just not true.
This is a serious issue and I’m glad that schools have to report these statistics.
It does appear that schools where students mostly live on campus are generally going to have higher numbers, as incidents in off campus apartments etc. don’t appear to be included if I’m reading the Post article (particularly the discussion of zero reported incidents on campus at NYU) correctly.
@collegedad13 the stats show more rapes at 9 other schools including Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard … that’s the data. your kids didn’t get into Stanford… that’s ok and maybe your motivation to post misleading data.
This is a national problem, not only a Stanford problem. However, arguing that they are only 10th raspiest is not a great defense.