<p>Could you please comment on campus safety?</p>
<p>Parents: your comments are also welcome.</p>
<p>Thank you much!</p>
<p>Here’s a start for you</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/449186-yales-location.html?highlight=safe[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/449186-yales-location.html?highlight=safe</a></p>
<p>The campus proper is perfectly safe. You probably shouldn’t wander around the periphery of the campus too late at night unless you’re in a group. </p>
<p>We get alerts from the police any time there’s a violent crime on campus. They’re usually muggings, and they usually happen around 2-3 AM on streets that undergraduates have never heard of (because they’re far from the center of campus/anywhere where undergrads are likely to be). I would guess that grad students who live in these areas would have to take more caution than undergrads. Of the high profile deaths that happened this year, two were pre-meditated murders (an unusually high number, and one that doesn’t reflect on the safety of the city. These were not random acts of crime), one was a suicide, and one seems to have been a drug overdose. Still, it’s good to be alert any time you’re living on a city campus. E.g., in my freshman year the residential colleges had a series of break ins (lock your windows and don’t prop your doors, especially if you live on the first floor!). This is not New Haven specific advice. </p>
<p>I think the danger of new haven is exaggerated. But this may not be such a bad thing for the students who do matriculate, because it is good to be cautious on any urban campus.</p>
<p>1) So they are still offering spots from the wait list? Wow. And congratulations.</p>
<p>2) The issue of campus safety at Yale comes up regularly. If you do a search on “Yale safety” I think you get a representative sample of this evergreen topic.</p>
<p>3) Yale is located in the middle of an aging Northeastern small city. There are public housing projects and poor neighborhoods with lots of section-8 housing near campus. This has been true at Yale for umpteen billion years. Bikes get stolen, people occasionally get held up, rowdy groups of townies will occasionally make drunk undergraduates wandering home feel threatened. There are good things about being located in New Haven, but there’s no denying that an undergrad at Yale is more likely to have an unpleasant interaction with a local resident than, say an undergrad at Dartmouth. ‘Unpleasant interaction’, for me, does not include assault (sexual or other) or murder – my unprofessional impression is that when that stuff happens to undergrads (at least at Yale) it is mostly NOT public-housing-project kids doing it to Yalies.</p>
<p>4) There are plenty of kids at Yale from wealthy, protected backgrounds who never lived in a city before. Mostly, their parents have decided that the risks associated with living in New Haven are tolerable. </p>
<p>5) That said, if I had a child who was particularly uncomfortable in urban settings, and who felt very threatened by regularly seeing/living close to poor people, I would probably think twice about having them choose Yale.</p>
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<p>I think that is a very fair assessment</p>