Well, it’s the thought that counts.
Omg…just got an email from Temple stating they don’t understood why they didn’t hear from me!!! They provided a form & a survey; I haven’t had a chance to look at them but i will later tonight. A link to the “form” on their portal would have been helpful a couple of weeks ago 
…ill mention that when I respond.
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Got the same. No way to respond except for drop down menu. (Can’t type in your response.) There is a choice for campus safety. That was our number 1.
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My son got the same “ghosting” message from them.
My son got an email yesterday asking if he was still interested in Temple because they had not heard from him and did not know what his plans were. Maybe if they put a link in that allowed the student to decline the invitation of admission, they might be more clued in. He was able to tell them why he decided not to attend: they did not have his exact major and when he contacted multiple departments and professors to ask how to go about getting as close as possible, they all “ghosted” him. Not a single answer from anyone.
Does anyone know when need based financial aid info will come? Not seeing 2023/2024 as an option in the portal yet.
Wanting to see the experience others have had with the Temple honors program. My DS has been accepted to Temple Honors and her to two schools at this point are Juniata and Temple. As parents we are very concerned about the safety. We know it is a great school that define as some safety concerns. She applied to 14 Schools and every school has provided merit. It is the same cost for her to go to small Liberal Arts schools like Juniata, Ursinus and Goucher as it is for Temple.
It concerns us also. Temple is a very low-cost option for us, but not the lowest. Unfortunately, the kid’s #1 fave comes in at full price. 
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I have a junior in Temple Honors and a 2021 Temple Honors graduate. I’m from out of state, but have spent many, many nights in the hotel right on campus. While safety is more of a concern than it might be in at a small, rural, liberal arts college, I have NEVER felt unsafe on campus. My kids have grown in maturity and street smarts, but have also taken advantage of all the things Philly has to offer: history, museums, food, culture.
Temple Honors is fantastic. I can’t say enough positive things. They say it gives you a small school feel inside the giant Temple community and both my Temple kids have found that to be true. The dedicated honors advising is personalized and outstanding. The advisor will know your kid personally, just like at a smaller school. The priority registration means your kid will always get the exact schedule/courses they want – honors kids get to register first with the athletes, a huge perk in a big school! The honors lounge is literally a home-away-from-home for my junior. She loves hanging there. The 1300 dorm where honors housing is located is about the nicest housing on campus. And if safety off campus is a concern, honors is the ONLY program at Temple with guaranteed 4 year housing.
My daughter is one of the student honors admission team members. If you or your student would like to talk with her personally, please feel free to message me and I’d be happy to set it up. I also highly recommend going to one of the “Experience Temple Days” – there’s special honors sessions during those events.
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Join the Temple University Parents only Safety Group to get the real deal on what is going on regarding safety.
Have not been able to find a Class of 2027 thread, so I’m posting here, and I’m also interested in what some of your kids who had decided to attend Temple feel about the area, one year later.
My D23 received President’s Scholar (full tuition scholarship) from Temple as an out-of-state student and invited to Honors program. School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts for Theatre BA. She would really like to attend a school in an urban area (to be able to hang out off campus), but judging from what many of you describe, hanging out off-campus is a no-no.
I’m originally from NYC myself (raised in the not-so-great areas of Brooklyn in the 80s/90s). My son attends school in Brooklyn now, right on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant (top 5 worst neighborhoods in NYC) and Clinton Hill. Trying to gauge the danger around Temple based on those reference points. We will be visiting Experience Temple this weekend, so thank you to @Lulu_Quinn for last year’s schedule (no info still from Temple on that). But I don’t know if we will have time to walk around off-campus areas (or if we even should).
Thoughts?
Do a google search of recent news regarding Temple. Unfortunately, it’s not great.
But if you take an uber 4-5 blocks away you’re on museum row and it’s such an awesome city!! PMA, the Barnes, Rodin, and so much more.
I consider my kid to be street smart, but he’s really had to think the safety through when deciding on schools.
Congrats to your kid! Were Temple offering a big scholarship it would have been a much more difficult decision for him.
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Kid (in-state ) is accepted, in honors college, and with a scholarship that makes it affordable but we are 95% sure he is declining because of the safety issues.
He has visited several times. He wants an urban campus. And he loves Philly, a lot.
But Temple is just too iffy for him - this is his assessment, not even counting our assessment (which is the same, but we have let him come to this conclusion on his own).
His love of an urban campus, like your daughter’s, I am guessing, is to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city, the vibrant off-campus life, the variety of people and shops and arts etc etc.
It is not to be constrained to a quite-small square where you cannot walk two blocks in any direction without having to worry about being robbed or worse.
He is extremely city-aware, and often takes a bus into NYC to spend the day walking around, because he loves it so much. He’s been doing this since he was 16, by himself. We trust his street smarts.
The only way to enjoy Philly at Temple is to get on the train and head downtown. You can’t meander outside the campus at all. And so he himself has mostly written off Temple. As he put it, he might as well have applied to St. Joe’s or West Chester or Villanova, because safety-wise, he could not enjoy Temple as it is today.
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@Susanb33 @Gatormama
Thank you for your input/insight!
Curious if you guys know how safe it is to use the train system there, from Temple to downtown.
Definitely will let my daughter make up her own mind. We haven’t said much about the danger, but she has probably overheard some things.
Again I’d suggest that all those considering Temple go on the Parent Safety FB group. We live right outside of Philly and I know many kids at Temple. More accurately, I know many parents who let their kids decide themselves and never sleep well - not exaggerating. Our neighbors daughter was part of one of the off campus home invasions.
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@Graphitemovermom I am so sorry but I am not so familiar with the train system around Temple. We are walkers. And Phila is generally a great city to walk. Have your daughter do a google search of the news around Temple. They have made national news recently. Then she can ask the questions on campus about what Temple is doing to address recent concerns. Good luck with your decisions!! We really loved the campus other than the safety concerns… oh and the dead guy who is buried in the middle of the campus. lol. That seemed creepy too, but completely innocuous of course.
@Graphitemovermom I’m the parent of a 2021 Temple grad, a current Temple junior, and a high school senior considering Temple. My daughter who is a junior is also a president’s scholar, in Temple Honors, and is an Honors ambassador. Every family has their own criteria and tolerance regarding safety, and I totally get that. We’re also out-of-state (NY).
Temple Honors with the President’s Scholar award is a great opportunity. I’d be happy to talk to you (feel free to PM me), and my daughter (the current junior who still lives in on-campus honors housing) would be happy to talk with your daughter if that would help.
I have taken the SEPTA subway Broad Street Line from campus to center city many, many times. It’s a safe, well traveled route. Thousands of people do a daily commute on that route. The Cecil B Moore station is right on campus. It’s a 10 minute, 4 stop ride to Center City. If you travel during the day, or are going into the city on the weekend, the on-campus station will have dozens of students also waiting for the train.
Would I ride it alone at 3 AM? No, but that’s just common sense and also applies to NYC, Boston, DC etc.
Thank you for the info. We went to the admitted student event this past weekend. The “stadium” welcome, which I’m sure was meant to impress students, actually had the opposite effect on my daughter. She felt like it was a game show and not sincere or engaging. However, we all felt the campus was quite beautiful (husband and I graduated from the “city campus” that is NYU), and the theatre department and the Honors presentation definitely impressed her. We left feeling like it was still a good option for her.
In the meantime, I had requested access to the Temple Safety Parent page on FB as @Leigh22 suggested, and when we got home, I was able to start reviewing the posts from there. It turns out that just an hour after we had left, there was an awful incident just 4 short blocks from where we stood. Okay, so maybe that happens in Brooklyn where my son is too. But I continued scrolling the posts and saw, within 10 days, multiple incidences near/on the edge/ON campus, so as a result, we have decided that it’s probably not going to be on her final list. We still have other schools to visit, so we’ll see what happens after all those visits.
Thank you for everyone’s input. I very much appreciate it!
Thank you very much for responding with all the great feedback about the Temple Honors program. My daughter was sold after the experience Temple days and the Honors skit was amazing.
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