<p>the Hopkins area is apparently very ghetto.</p>
<p>Highly misinformed observations on this thread.</p>
<p>Looks like someone (the OP and a few posters) should be looking at country club colleges. LOL. If you dont like the urban campus, then dont apply.</p>
<p>Some people THRIVE in the inner city campuses and some of the finest schools in the nation are in the inner city. </p>
<p>But crime can and DOES happen at ALL schools…even the rural ones. There are some very sad examples of that in the last two years or so.</p>
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Don’t many (most?) colleges have their own police forces?</p>
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I don’t think University City is really a “poor area”…</p>
<p>I don’t think “ghetto” colleges exist (and I think there’s nary a university located in a “hood” or “ghetto”).</p>
<p>South Bend’s rough? Really?</p>
<p>Saying that Hopkins is in a “very ghetto” area is misinformed and, perhaps, racist. The areas immediately to the North of the campus include the nicest and most expensive parts of Baltimore–Gilford, Roland Park, Oxford-Cantebury. The neighborhood immediately to the east (Charles Village) is a mix of students, young professionals and middle to upper middle class residents. It is racially integrated and quite diverse. The area to the west (Hampden) is a mix of Baltimore middle class (think Hairspray) and funky, artsy types. The area immediately to the south (Remington) is a predominately middle class African-American community. While the average income levels for Remington residents may be lower than the other neighborhoods, it is not a bad neighborhood and there are some very nice people who live there.</p>
<p>Anyone who would call these areas “Ghetto” is either ignorant, misinformed, or simply living in a dream world bubble. If seeing people of color around bothers you that much, you’ve spent too much time in the suburbs. College is a time to learn–and if you’ve never experienced living among diverse people, you should embrace the opportunity rather than engage in stereotyping.</p>
<p>Penn State is the farthest thing from ghetto. She was thinking of Penn. Penn is a great school, just surrounded by a rough area.</p>
<p>aren’t all schools technically ghettos?</p>
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People are often confused because of the different JHU campuses. For example, the famous JHU medical campus and hospital are located in what is commonly regarded as a Bad Neighborhood.</p>
<p>However, undergraduates attend the Homewood campus, which is literally miles from the medical campus. The neighborhoods next to the Homewood campus are surprisingly diverse, but they obviously include many of the most expensive addresses in town. Roland Park is about as “ghetto” as [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPgVkzTf1Q]Prep-Unit[/url”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPgVkzTf1Q]Prep-Unit[/url</a>].</p>
<p>classification as “ghetto” is relative. is the area around uchicago poor in an absolute sense? no. is it poor relative to (for example) princeton, nj? claremont? suburbs of boston? the village? that much is true. </p>
<p>most selective colleges are far removed from reality. those which are in or closer to real cities (other than the people’s republic of cambridge) are labelled as “ghetto.” they’re different, at least.</p>
<p>There are 75 times more deaths out of campus than on campus, so the ghetto neighborhood is a somewhat reasonable concern. Worrying about another Virginia Tech shootout is not.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that the area surrounding Case Western in Cleveland isn’t the most desirable.</p>
<p>Liist: I am not suggesting anyone should worry about a repeat of Virginia Tech, there or anywhere. I know people deeply affected by the tragedy at Virginia Tech and in therapy still. A horrific tragedy. It was a freak “accident”, but still a crime. The simple point I was making was that bad things can happen at any school. Urban campuses are not necessarily more prone to crime than rural campuses. Most crime on a college campus is a petty theft or larceny…leaving your dorm room unlocked and getting your purse, wallet or computer or ipod stolen. </p>
<p>Just the same, its important to be smart on campus and not go out at night alone and dont get drunk and go wandering around anywhere…off or on campus.</p>
<p>A Dartmouth girl was murdered a few years back on parents weekend of all times…she had gone out drinking and was walking back to campus alone. Bad move. </p>
<p>There is crime at pristine colleges like Vanderbilt and UCLA. It happens.</p>
<p>Just be smart.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins Homewood campus is most definitely not ghetto. Post #26 is quite correct. It is in an interesting part of the city, very beautiful and varied, near museums, parks, historic neighborhoods, other colleges, etc. There are parts of Baltimore that should be avoided, but JHU is in an “exercise common sense” area.</p>
<p>^^ Colleges should allow students who legally hold Concealed Carry Weapons Permits to be able to carry handguns. So if a student does walk at night alone, he would have a good way to deter or even stop a deadly attack. I think liberals need to get over the idea that legal gun owners are a danger to society.</p>
<p>I’m curious as to how many of the people responding to this question have even been on the campuses they refer to, let alone spending any time living in the area.</p>
<p>Take EVERYTHING you hear on this posting with a huge grain of salt!!!</p>
<p>Duke!?!?!?!?!?!?! Come on!</p>
<p>I go to Columbia; it is not a ghetto school, and I had to laugh at that (that will include Barnard). It is next door to Harlem, but the Harlem area is gentrifying like nobody’s business and a lot of young artists and professionals (as well as Columbia grad students) are taking advantage of low rents and moving in there. And Columbia is not in Harlem proper; it’s in Morningside Heights, which has been termed “white Harlem” by some prominent conversationalist. Columbia’s campus and the surrounding area is actually the least diverse place in the city IMO.</p>
<p>And I used to live right outside Philly by UPenn. I’ll actually go along with that area being kind of rough.</p>
<p>^ The area right around Penn is not “rough.” In fact, University City has seen a great deal of development and gentrification in the last decade or so, and that development continues apace as new restaurants, boutiques, luxury apartments and condos, student housing, and Victorian townhouse renovations proliferate. Several blocks west of Penn’s campus, the neighborhood can get a bit rough, but the vast majority of Penn students never go to those areas. This type of situation can be found at numerous urban schools (e.g., Columbia, U. of Chicago, Yale, Johns Hopkins), because the nature of urban areas can change very quickly within a few blocks.</p>
<p>Man, if you think the area around Penn is rough… haha</p>
<p>University City is NICE, people. Well, speaking comparatively. It seems to me that a lot of people on this particular thread have learned to associate scary with black.</p>
<p>Hopkins is located in a nice area, however not too far away there is a bad neighborhood. Trust me I know, I like 5 minutes from Hopkins, and no I live in a nice neighborhood lol not the ghetto.</p>