<p>Yasdnil, luckily, Byerly won’t be at Yale next September, so you don’t have to worry about getting into those kinds of arguments in the dining halls, or anywhere else on campus, for that matter - except the football field. 
And it’s good to hear your reasons for applying to Yale.</p>
<p>Byerly, for one thing, those figures are old (2001) - perhaps the Yale representative’s claim was based on newer figures. And perhaps (s)he was saying that Yale students felt safer than Harvard students; I don’t know if there is such a survey. Just a thought. And, what’s more, if you look at those crime rates, nearly all of Cambridge’s are above the national average, so we’re arguing over very little. Posters here should know to choose the schools, not the cities, and at any rate, that wasn’t the focus of the OP’s post. To summarize: no one here lied to the best of their knowledge, no one attacked you (although your reaction to fiddlefrog seemed to suggest otherwise), and you certainly aren’t the one to decide who here is right and wrong (especially when you evidently can’t do it in a civilized manner).</p>