<p>Hyde Park as a neighborhood is actually very nice, very safe. It’s only when you venture out of Hyde Park and the surrounding campus that you get into the “disreputable neighborhoods.” You won’t walk off campus a lot, walking off into the bad neighborhoods. You’d have to walk a while.</p>
<p>And if you go downtown, there are buses and trains that take you to downtown without making you wait in a bad neighborhood. Don’t worry. Tell them that it’s really safe, and that you’ll probably stay on campus a lot, being a first year, and even if you do go downtown, it’ll still be safe.</p>