Colleges in major cities

[Anonymous]

My DS wants to go to a college in a major city. He wouldn’t do well in the middle of nowhere. However, most of these colleges he’s picking, tend to be in crime ridden cities, like Philly. I have read some really scary reviews about the areas surrounding the schools.

Any suggestions where to look where it’s relatively safe?

[Anonymous]

Size school preference? How strong academically? Geographical preference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Size school preference? How strong academically? Geographical preference?

Size doesn’t matter. Pretty strong academically. preferably East Coast, but open.

[Anonymous]

Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.

[Anonymous]

Miami

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS wants to go to a college in a major city. He wouldn’t do well in the middle of nowhere. However, most of these colleges he’s picking, tend to be in crime ridden cities, like Philly. I have read some really scary reviews about the areas surrounding the schools.

Any suggestions where to look where it’s relatively safe?

- U. Washington

It’s in Seattle

Ravenna and u district are safe

It’s beautiful

- U Minnesota is another option

- UCLA

- SMU (Dallas) - beautiful campus, beautiful students, safe neighborhood

Northwesteen isn’t in Chicago technically but Evanston is pretty safe and close enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Size school preference? How strong academically? Geographical preference?

Size doesn’t matter. Pretty strong academically. preferably East Coast, but open.

Georgetown

[Anonymous]

NYU

[Anonymous]

Macalester in St Paul!

[Anonymous]

BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

[Anonymous]

Pitt
CMU
Penn
NYU
Columbia
Fordham
Stevens (in NJ anti into engineering)
Harvard
BU
BC
Northeastern
Babson
JHU
Georgetown
University of Charleston
U Miami
Georgia Tech
Emory
Vanderbilt
Washington U in St Louis
U Chicago
Northwestern
Loyola Chicago
U Denver
UT Austin
UCLA
Berkeley

[Anonymous]

Pitt, Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Oakland used to be dicy but it's not anymore.

University of Charleston.

Emory.

I'd be fine with the universities in Philly, personally.

Tulane.

Most of the others I can think of have been posted.

[Anonymous]

My DC also wanted to be in a city & there aren’t many colleges that are not in a bad part of town.

Pitt
Carnegie Mellon
SMU
TCU
Rice
Vanderbilt
Texas (impossible to get into from OOS)
U Denver
Miami

Tulane is in a nicer part of New Orleans, but crime in New Orleans is bad (although it seems to have recently taken a turn for the better, fingers crossed it holds)

People have posted GaT above, and it is in a bad part of Atlanta

[Anonymous]

Boston. No college student complains about crime there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.

+1
they are in a good area, not sure what OP is talking about.