Women-friendly campuses

unwritten02
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:26:54 +0000

Safety is a big issue for both me and my parents. I live in a pretty small (6-7,000), very safe town and I’m looking to stay in a similar situation so when I visited UVa the surrounding area was a huge turnoff and when I talked to a student he said there was a serial rapist walking around who hadn’t been caught so that just added to my dislike of the area. My father thinks UVa is perfect for my brother though so obviously the safety issue is not as big of a concern.
This is probably more just because of my personality and not because I’m a girl, but my parents definitely want a somewhat nurturing type of college, not an impersonal school where I’ll just be another number. Although if I was a boy and had the same personality, again I don’t think this would be as big of an issue.