I don’t know how parents on here can say that they don’t expect mob violence at so and so campus. In today’s world, violence is so random. Someone mentioned Virginia Tech in a previous response. I think that the parents of those students would have preferred a mob of students to a deranged gunman on campus. I have a student in New Haven and I know that it is not the best place. But neither is DC, NY, Chicago, or LA. However, some of the small, quieter campuses are hiding other dangers. So while you are assessing the dangers in the surrounding communities before making decisions, please look at the school’s track record on responses to sexual assault allegations between students, suicide rates, assaults and injuries during frat parties and other dangers that students are often subjected to. Isolated schools usually create their own brand of crazy and some administrations have not learned the lesson that covering them up is not a good plan.