<p>Tier 1: In an affulent middle-of-nowhere:
Dartmouth, Princeton</p>
<p>Tier 2: In a dreary, working-class middle-of-nowhere:
Cornell</p>
<p>Tier 3: In a small, nice city:
Brown</p>
<p>Tier 4: In a nice part of a city with dodgy parts:
Columbia, Yale, Harvard</p>
<p>Tier 5: In a dodgy part of a city with dodgy parts:
Penn</p>
<p>^ Haha, I think that’s genius.</p>
<p>But I do agree that usually the more rural the campus, the more one is inclined to think of safety. I also agree that the police forces of some of these schools, especially the ones smack dab in the middle of a city, are a tad underrated. I mean, they’re there for a reason.</p>