You’ve heard horrible things about the city…but have you been to the city? The school is not in the city. The school has a nearby street car to the city.
The school is next to Tulane - which is in that same vein as Vanderbilt…just a half notch below and as a Loyola student you can take two classes each semester.
Learn for yourself - don’t just hear something and assume that’s how it is. You can get a wonderful education in a city with wonderful culture but be housed in a perfectly safe place, with access to a much more expensive school most dream about.