Hey all,
I’ve a question which is bugging me in short listing few universities. It may sound peculiar query to some of you, but I still prefer to get your opinion on it- Is it better to avoid dangerous (high crime) and haunted colleges? My family is a bit conservative and they generally warn me to avoid such colleges or anything of that matter? One situation is I’m really interested in Miami University, Ohio and Fordham Gabelli, NYC but but both seem to be heavily haunted. What’s your opinion?
Your other threads say you’re a low income US citizen living in India with your mom and you have a NCP who earns a lot but won’t pay. You need to focus on affordability.
What do you mean by “haunted colleges”? that is a superstition.
That sounds really horrifying. Beware of scare ghosts and unknown parts in spooky libraries. Really, are you going to bring a ghost buster with you? I did see a scary guy in my library once but I think he was an Econ professor.
@austinmshauri, Miami University offers a 100% merit tuition scholarship. I would also be getting generous aid from Fordham. So, with affordability sorted out, this is one factor in filtering colleges out. I wouldn’t want spirits to be knocking my dorm room door or spooky things happening like that (if they exist), however affordable the college may be.
Haunted? I’d pay extra for that.
@Happytimes2001, LOL. That was one indeed funny comment though! Just saying!
Funny story: A couple of years ago, we arrived at U Penn after a 3-hour drive and stopped in the bathrooms in the beautiful old building where admissions is located, before going into the info sessions. My daughter came out and said two Penn employees in the women’s bathroom were talking about an unidentifiable slime oozing from the wall onto the stairwell that they had just cleaned up. One said it was from the building’s poltergeist. We were then led into a big, creepy, old auditorium for the info session. I think my daughter did put Penn on her haunted listed. (Actually the urban campus was not for her.)
@TTG, woah! That’s really spooky incident, straight outta Scooby-Doo!!! In the long run, its better to holistically consider an university.
Don’t worry. The only specters on campus will be the ones that had the stats to get in. Although, there is some concern that many of their essays were ghost written.
@gallentjill, good joke! Probably true.
I worked at a college where there was supposedly the ghost of a student who had committed suicide due to unrequited love. It turned out that she was in her nineties but still alive.
I think all colleges have “ghost” stories.
@birdie3, couldn’t agree more with you on this. But some are concentrated heavily.
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Miami University offers a 100% merit tuition scholarship. I would also be getting generous aid from Fordham.
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You are deciding between hypotheticals. Given your situation (per other threads), first get actual offers & aid from colleges (btw, Ohio State is tuition only- you still have to pay for room & board, text books & other living expenses).
The ‘haunted’ thing is a nonsense. As for ‘dangerous’ high crime areas, I can’t think of a college campus where your actual safety is big issue, though there are a fair few where you would want to be mindful about the surrounding areas. None of the ones on the various lists you have posted would seem particularly dangerous. Fordham is in a pretty neighborhood, in the nicest part of the Bronx, and the campus is gated (you need your ID to swipe in). I wouldn’t go out wandering the town around by myself at 1am (and Fordham runs shuttles at night from the subway to the campus), but on campus you are perfectly safe.
@collegemom3717 ; “You are deciding between hypotheticals. Given your situation (per other threads), first get actual offers & aid from colleges (btw, Ohio State is tuition only- you still have to pay for room & board, text books & other living expenses)”.
The haunted thing may be a nonsense. I agree. But I wouldn’t want a bad experience. So I also wouldn’t want to waste my application fees if it doesn’t seem right to me. One of my mom’s cousin’s husband’s nephew lives in Oxford, OH and agreed to have me live with him (if I get into MUO) until my sophomore year (he’ll be moving to Hawaii then), so I can manage 2 years housing and stuff at Miami University, OH. I’d be very gleeful of it if it weren’t for the ghost stories out there.
Thanks for the review on Fordham.
The. Ghost. Stories. Are. Nonsense.
Stop worrying about that.
Please don’t count on housing with your mom’s cousin’s husband’s nephews for housing. A lot can change in his life before you move in with him, and then you could be in a very ugly no-housing situation. Not to mention of course that even if you can live there for the first two years, what are you going to do to cover your housing for the last two?
The ghosts would guide you in all your academic endeavors.
@penpal11, that isn’t funny.
@GuessME5 I apologize, I’m just poking fun.
But seriously, ghosts aren’t real unless you’re paranoid and perceive them to be.