<p>While I can't speak for current students, I don't think a 10 minute walk to Davis Square even in winter would greatly deter me from going into the city... Odds are, if you're taking the subway somewhere, you're going to be walking around out in the cold anyways.</p>
<p>My friend got robbed at Johns Hopkins :(</p>
<p>I like Tufts...it seems a more balanced place than JHU.</p>
<p>I think I go into the city just as much in the winter - Boston Commons looks <em>beautiful</em> when it snows!</p>
<p>I've lived in Cambridge my whole life.</p>
<p>I had a choice between Hopkins and Tufts, and I choose Hopkins.</p>
<p>Believe me, Boston is an old city that is well established with historical ties. Baltimore's inner harbor dwarfs anything Boston has to offer. This is coming from a person that goes to Chinatown every single weekend and knows Boston inside and out.</p>
<p>Safety was an issue for me in deciding to apply to Johns Hopkins. I am under the impression that 1 murder per year takes place there. I COULD BE WRONG!!!!!! THAT STATISTIC COULD HAVE COME FROM MY ASS! But, going off of that, I didn't apply b/c I didn't want to take that chance.</p>
<p>baltimore has a really high crime rate, one of the highest of cities its size</p>
<p>jhu is basically in the ghetto</p>
<p>Yikes!!!!!</p>
<p>Hopkins isn't in the ghetto lol its right next to the Baltimore Museum of Art and other colleges in Baltimore like Loyola. But yeah, crime does occur in the area, and there's alot of drug dealing and stuff going on - It can be a really dangerous area if you don't use good sense. And I guess sometimes even if you do.</p>
<p>But as a Baltimorean I feel the need to say that parts of Bmore are also really really nice and interesting! It mean it isn't Boston but its definitely not an awful place.</p>
<p>remember: it's four years of your life, and what are supposed to be four of the best ones at that. Would you rather spend them in Boston or in Baltimore. Think on that. It's more important than a high school student might realize.</p>
<p>Tufts is not "in Boston." Its actually different since Tufts its in a quiet suburban town called Medford, which is two cities away from Boston.</p>
<p>Seriously, you will spend 99% of your time on campus. You will sleep, eat, go to class, work out, party do homework, study, all those fun stuff on campus.</p>
<p>Visit both campus, you will see the difference. Your not going to spend all your time in the city anyways, most of your time will be spent on campus.</p>
<p>My friend is in the same predicament and I believe that he has chosen to attend Tufts. Here are of some of the reasons I think he has chosen to attend:</p>
<p>Boston is overall a better city to get the full college experience.
Tufts has a sense of community (he says after visiting).
Tufts offers a great education regardless of major.
and other personal reasons.</p>
<p>Tufts is, for all practical purposes, in Boston. Unless you refuse to take a 10 minute subway ride, or 10 minute busride, or 20 minute bike ride. Everyone goes to Boston weekly. It is that convenient.</p>
<p>lolabelle--can you believe how often those of us who went to Tufts have to "defend" its proximity to Boston?!! This week on CC, it seems that every time I turn around, I read that Tufts is in a town "called Medford." (No one seems to note that half of campus is in Somerville.)</p>
<p>Okay---one more time!! It's as easy to get from Tufts to downtown Boston as is is to get from Columbia to downtown NYC or UChicago to downtown Chicago. REALLY. We did it in the dark ages before the T went further than Harvard Square. You could walk if you were so inclined. Boston is relatively tiny, and it's easy to get about.</p>
<p>PLUS, Tufts has some advantages that the schools within the city limits don't have--beautiful daffodils, fall colors, and a great sledding hill.</p>
<p>The weather today was SO GORGEOUS...it's like the entire campus was transformed. Everyone forgot any stress and just wanted to be outside. People on the lawn, working at the tables outside the campus center, all the girls breaking out their skirts and dresses and flip flops before it snows on Sunday...love it! My housemates and I took advantage by studying on our balcony. Good weather changes everything haha</p>
<p>According to wikipedia, Tufts is located in Medford/Somerville. It is not located "in" Boston as you have suggested. Just because you have easy convenient access to a city doesn't mean your are necessary located within the physical city limits of Boston itself as is implied by the wording of "Tufts is located in Boston."</p>
<p>Speaking as a person that lived all their life in Cambridge, I know for a fact that anyone that says Tufts is "in" Boston is totally out of their mind and brush up on their geography.</p>
<p>It irritates the heck out of New Englanders and people who reside in the Boston region to hear blatantly incorrect statements like that.</p>
<p>Yeah, and it irritates the heck out of me when people seize on statements and bicker about the semantics. We've all agreed that Tufts is not located in Boston proper, but that it's convenient to access the city. Now's the time to...let it go.</p>