<p>I agree with the analysis of Trinity. I took a bus to the Hartford station to go to Trinity to visit a friend and it was downright scary. And I was coming from Worcester which seemed much better by comparison.</p>
<p>South Bend sucks, but Notre Dame’s campus is gorgeous enough to make up for the location ten times over.</p>
<p>I love New Haven and think its a great college town. I recently lived there for a couple of years, and it really caters to the students needs. There are tons of students milling about at all hours of the day/night, and I never felt unsafe walking alone at night.</p>
<p>I’m hoping my kids don’t want to go to Hopkins and UMCP because of the areas they’re in. </p>
<p>Alas, the former is probably a good matchreach and the latter is a likely safety. </p>
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<p>yeah Maryland is not in a great area but the campus is so sprawling that who cares?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins in Baltimore has good-Baltimore on one side but bad-Baltimore on the other.</p>
<p>^^^^Hopkins med is all baaad.</p>
<p>MIT’s not in a bad town or area, but it’s an architectural eyesore. A great, great, world-class university with a campus that’s (to me) downright depressing - ironic.</p>
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<p>Agreed. MIT is in a sketchy ghetto-like industrial. I grew up next to MIT all my life.</p>
<p>I second Brandeis. You’d a a quality education, but the all architecture is either ugly or very dull.</p>
<p>MIT’s campus consists of rectangular and block-like buildings. Not exactly “ugly,” but not attractive or inspirational either.</p>
<p>Bates has a beautiful campus and is an excellent school, Maine is an amazing state, but Lewiston is UGLY.</p>
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<p>Regardless, you have to give Taki some credit. It’s definitely an improvement over what it was even 5 years ago…</p>
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Funny, I’ve been here 5 years and that’s 3 more people than I’ve known. Not to say it doesn’t happen–of course it does (muggings, anyway. The only people beating up people are the Penntards caste beating up other Penntards). But it’s not exactly Baghdad.</p>
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I don’t think anything designed by Gehry could be described as rectangular or block-like ;)</p>
<p>Just a functional disaster. Lawyers, anyone?</p>
<p>A professor at UPenn (ironically) told me that part of New Haven’s city planning was a sort of an urban sociology project: The city is divided by a highway with the slums on one side and the wealthy on the other.</p>
<p>I remember one bad incident that happened to a girl I know the summer I was at UPenn and another that happened to me, but I think the thing that happened to me would happen on any college campus. I felt safe on campus, but at the same time I was young and naive and 16.</p>
<p>I spent the summer before UPenn at Brown and I wasn’t a big fan of that campus. There was also the fact that the campus was laid out so that most of it went along one street (I might be wrong about this, who knows, but this what I remember) and I had to walk more than a mile along that one street from my dorm to a classroom.</p>
<p>I agree that MIT has something that’s just plain depressing (and confusing) about it, especially when most people visit the other universities in the Cambridge area along with it on the same day =].</p>
<p>About Harvard: I’m now in Ann Arbor, which is, honestly and without bias, my favorite college town and I’ve visited plenty. Cambridge, especially Harvard Square, is my second favorite college town. I have noticed in both Ann Arbor and Cambridge that there are homeless people and beggars present, which is interesting, because one thinks of these places as ritzy areas that developed around academia. (I just wrote a story about this, I’m a nerd.)</p>
<p>It’s strange how even Harvard has homeless and bums. I thought that was just a Penn/Yale problem.</p>
<p>Yay, more misery for everyone!</p>