<p>Either Yale or Princeton (forget which) is in the most murder-ridden, violent town in the country. Kinda funny to think of all that right up against the children of the ruling class studying Zinn and Chomsky, but quite appropriate.</p>
<p>Northwestern is in Chicago, Johns Hopkins is in or around Baltimore, UCLA and Cal Tech are in LA.</p>
<p>That said, I don’t know if any of these schools are in “the bad parts” of those cities, but New Haven, Chicago, and Baltimore are as crime-ridden as any place on this continent. LA is famous for its gang problem too.</p>