<p>When you’re in high school, you frequently hear about some high schools being “ghetto” and “dangerous”… (usually summed up with the word ‘ghetto’.)
Last year, a girl told me that Penn State is “really ghetto…” and I thought that was weird…</p>
<p>Are there any “ghetto” colleges?</p>
<p>UChicago
Case Western</p>
<p>Temple U. in Philadelphia is basically a war zone with its own Police force and stadium lighting all night long. It’s horrifying.</p>
<p>as in, located in poor areas:
penn
hopkins
chicago</p>
<p>supposedly dangerous, i guess if people of color suggest danger to you:
yale
columbia</p>
<p>Duke is in Durham…</p>
<p>An elevated level of crime suggests danger, regardless of any possible correlation with racial composition. New Haven is certainly a more dangerous locale than the national average; on the other hand, UChicago is located in a fairly affluent area of the city whose per capita crime rate is roughly half of that of the city as whole. Overall, though, the degree of criminality is greatly exaggerated in almost all cases and the risk posed to any given individual is blown extremely out of proportion. If you’re not susceptible to fear-mongering, then you shouldn’t consider any of the universities listed as “ghetto.”</p>
<p>USC has a nice campus, but its in a fairly dangerous area of LA.</p>
<p>Penn & Temple, but if you stay on campus after it gets dark you will be fine.</p>
<p>USC, U Chicago, U Penn, Yale, Duke</p>
<p>Cal State Dominguez Hills (CSUDH)</p>
<p>Columbia, Barnard, Penn</p>
<p>I’ve seen Columbia’s campus several times, it’s not ghetto at all. Not the best part of NYC, but far from being called ‘ghetto’.</p>
<p>actually usc has like the lowest crime rate of any college because of the 24/7 police stationed there although it lies in a more “ghetto” area.</p>
<p>Seen a lot of bad comments on South Bend (Notre Dame) and New Haven (Yale).</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is definitely not ghetto. Gorgeous campus, spread out. Baltimore has it bad areas as well as very nice neigborhoods and area. Same for Columbia. Yale also.
Get real people.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve heard the area around Notre Dame is pretty hard, a friend of mine went there and heard of a couple kids getting jacked at gunpoint off campus.</p>
<p>I think crime in Hyde Park (University of Chicago’s immediate neighborhood) is rather overhyped, and there’s a big difference between HP “then” and “now.” The neighborhood itself is getting increasingly wealthier, multimillion-dollar homes and condos in the $200,000+. When I think of HP, I think of lots of old people walking around, professors, and kids in strollers. I also think of a lot of African-Americans in diamonds and Mercedes, like the Obama family, which lives in the neighborhood. Hardly a scary place.</p>
<p>The surrounding areas aren’t great for white college students, so white college students hardly go there.</p>
<p>I think it kinda depends on what you’re used to. I grew up in NYC and, frankly, all the colleges that have been listed are urban, but none of them feel unsafe to me. People from smaller towns and cities would probably feel differently.</p>
<p>Trinity College is gorgeous but is located in a not so great area of Hartford. And Clark and Holy Cross suffer from being in Worcester.</p>
<p>providence college has this place called the chad brown projects right nearby, and i wouldn’t be caught there at night</p>