<p>For the record,
is completely inaccurate. I’ll be charitable and assume it comes from misinformation, not an outright lie.
There hasn’t been a murder of a Yale student since 1998. The case was never solved - and there is no particular reason to believe that it was a random act of violence resulting from the dangerousness of New Haven, rather than the sort of murder that could happen anywhere, where the murderer knew the victim and had some particular motive. </p>
<p>I’m not going to get into all the silly and petty claims about which Ivy is the most dangerous (which are generally made by partisans of particular schools to disparage rival schools), but a statement like the above is outlandish and must not be believed. And given that someone has already quoted it, it seems like it’s being given credence. </p>
<p>In any case, none of these schools are actually particularly dangerous, and I don’t think anyone should be deciding not to go to a particular Ivy on account of the risk of crime. </p>
<p>Finally, remember that most crime at basically any school, including the Ivies, is committed by students - as modestmelody reminds us, the most serious crime occurring with any frequency on almost all campuses is date rape.</p>