<p>To crystallize what LameMom and others are saying, you’re comparing apples and oranges. Campus rapes are one thing - and an ugly underside of the college experience - while petty crimes resulting from a bad neighborhood are another matter entirely.</p>
<p>Rapes happen everywhere. The bad neighborhood stuff is germane to USC and plenty of other urban schools. The former is an ugly reality, while the latter is offset by being in the middle of a truly great world city, with plenty of opportunities practically at your doorstep.</p>
<p>An alternative to fear of sexual assault (by fellow students, as LameMom noted) would be to attend a single gender college, although few of those still exist today, unfortunately. Ironically, 40 years after Boomers fought to end it, it’s being rediscovered on the K-12 level.</p>