<p>I’m not so sure Cambridge itself is that safe either. I worked near Harvard and I think Harvard square is, but cambridge definitely has some rough areas which have spilled onto campus itself. Similar things can be said for Hopkins as well. I think most top privates have issues (save for Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Rice, and Stanford). Duke, Penn, Columbia definitely fall into the former category</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/08/17/rape-reported-harvard-campus/0dHXBnZMK5VDzdbmUCN8KN/story.html”>http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/08/17/rape-reported-harvard-campus/0dHXBnZMK5VDzdbmUCN8KN/story.html</a></p>