JHU safety

[Anonymous]

Years ago, a female JHU student was sexually assaulted and murdered in her apartment. She was very friendly to a homeless man outside of her building and often gave him food and money. One day, the homeless man followed her into her apartment building. That was it.
My friend worked and lived near Homewood campus for several years. She simply stayed in her apartment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopkins Homewood campus is a a block or two from some very crime ridden streets. It's also near some very nice areas but those too are near high crime areas. This is the nature of Baltimore: you're never far (generally blocks away) from
a high crime area. It's not like many cities in which the crime is more segregated.

Please name a crime-ridden street within 2 blocks of Homewood.

[Anonymous]

Husband went there in early 90s when crime was MUCH worse. Campus is very safe. You know the neighborhoods and where off-campus is safe. My kid goes to a private school in a dicey area of DC and we live in a more urban area so I would not have a problem sending him there.

When I read you heading I thought you meant as a 'safety school' and was thinking--hell no is that a 'safety' ?

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Anonymous wrote:Together, I spent 15 years at University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins and because of my research, I spent a lot of time travelling all over both cities. I don't think this is really an answerable question. UofC is having a bad year, but to me, it does seem anomalous. Baltimore does have a higher overall murder rate than Chicago. In both cities, there are buffers between the Universities and the neighborhoods with the most violence. Baltimore always struck me as more deeply dysfunctional than Chicago. Baltimore is a pretty compact city and so much of it is just not functional and living there I felt so close to all the mayhem. Maybe that was just because I was at a different stage of life and was pregnant then had a young child when I was there.

You're full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, a female JHU student was sexually assaulted and murdered in her apartment. She was very friendly to a homeless man outside of her building and often gave him food and money. One day, the homeless man followed her into her apartment building. That was it.
My friend worked and lived near Homewood campus for several years. She simply stayed in her apartment.

That women was killed by an acquaintance not a homeless person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from JHU in 93. Definitely a lot more attention to safety now than when I went there but in those days everybody lived off campus starting sophomore year and the school had a good shuttle system that would take you anywhere 24 hours a day. I can think of 2 people I was aware of who were victims of crimes (random, wrong place wrong time in a city stuff). Parts of Baltimore are absolutely not areas you would want to send your kid but I really never felt unsafe in the areas around campus as long as I used some common sense. And I think it’s much better now

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

You went to Hopkins and were unaware there were million dollar condos literally right across the street (Other side of Universiry Parkway)? Unaware that Hopkins Homewoodd campus was surrounded by Roland Park on one side and Guilford on the other, the two priciest neighborhoods in Baltimore? I don’t think you actually went there.

The actual campus is about 50 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, and there are tons of businesses along Saint Paul that also were not there 20 years ago. The Rotunda has been rebuilt as an outdoor mall with a good number of restaurants. And that third side of Hopkins? It borders Hampden which is young professional bars and restaurant central these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

You went to Hopkins and were unaware there were million dollar condos literally right across the street (Other side of Universiry Parkway)? Unaware that Hopkins Homewoodd campus was surrounded by Roland Park on one side and Guilford on the other, the two priciest neighborhoods in Baltimore? I don’t think you actually went there.

The actual campus is about 50 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, and there are tons of businesses along Saint Paul that also were not there 20 years ago. The Rotunda has been rebuilt as an outdoor mall with a good number of restaurants. And that third side of Hopkins? It borders Hampden which is young professional bars and restaurant central these days.

Roland Park and Guilford are not right by Homewood. Kids without cars will rarely stray into those neighborhoods. They are far more likely to cross North Avenue though going to a party on Saturday night, where I used to pray that the light would be green.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our DC is applying to universities this year, and we are reading what is happening with safety issues at the University of Chicago, which making us hesitant to apply to campuses with danger levels of safety for students. What do folks think about the safety levels at JHU? Is it in the same boat at UChicago in respect to campus safety for students? Which other top-level university campuses (?Yale, ?UPenn, ?Columbia, etc...) have similar trade-offs that University of Chicago has, that we should consider before making any decisions regarding application or acceptance? Would JHU in particular be on the same safety level as University of Chicago? (Needless to say, for our DC these colleges would be possible etc... but the main question is regarding campus safety)

If you are highly concerned about crime, avoid JHU and Chicago entirely.

Penn is safer than JHU and Chicago, but near some crappy areas.

Yale and Columbia are fine as long as you keep your wits about you and, in Columbia's case, avoid venturing into Morningside Park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

You went to Hopkins and were unaware there were million dollar condos literally right across the street (Other side of Universiry Parkway)? Unaware that Hopkins Homewoodd campus was surrounded by Roland Park on one side and Guilford on the other, the two priciest neighborhoods in Baltimore? I don’t think you actually went there.

The actual campus is about 50 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, and there are tons of businesses along Saint Paul that also were not there 20 years ago. The Rotunda has been rebuilt as an outdoor mall with a good number of restaurants. And that third side of Hopkins? It borders Hampden which is young professional bars and restaurant central these days.

Roland Park and Guilford are not right by Homewood. Kids without cars will rarely stray into those neighborhoods. They are far more likely to cross North Avenue though going to a party on Saturday night, where I used to pray that the light would be green.

Yes, they are. And North Avenue is not near campus nor would any Hopkins student be likely to be crossing it at any time, let alone a Saturday night. You are just making things up.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

You went to Hopkins and were unaware there were million dollar condos literally right across the street (Other side of Universiry Parkway)? Unaware that Hopkins Homewoodd campus was surrounded by Roland Park on one side and Guilford on the other, the two priciest neighborhoods in Baltimore? I don’t think you actually went there.

The actual campus is about 50 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, and there are tons of businesses along Saint Paul that also were not there 20 years ago. The Rotunda has been rebuilt as an outdoor mall with a good number of restaurants. And that third side of Hopkins? It borders Hampden which is young professional bars and restaurant central these days.

Roland Park and Guilford are not right by Homewood. Kids without cars will rarely stray into those neighborhoods. They are far more likely to cross North Avenue though going to a party on Saturday night, where I used to pray that the light would be green.

Yes, they are. And North Avenue is not near campus nor would any Hopkins student be likely to be crossing it at any time, let alone a Saturday night. You are just making things up.

People like you are SO obnoxious.

I was a student there for almost five years. It is very possible that your experience was different than mine.

BUT mine is based upon actually living there as a Hopkins student. That makes if JUST AS VALID as yours, or more so.

[Anonymous]

They used to house international students by the train station.

If their wealthy parents had any idea what that entailed....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle? Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety,

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day. Homewood can be much much worse.

Actually no it isn’t. Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s. In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman. I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was. The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous. I think that area is also
Much safer now.

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area. Not even comparable to Dupont.

You went to Hopkins and were unaware there were million dollar condos literally right across the street (Other side of Universiry Parkway)? Unaware that Hopkins Homewoodd campus was surrounded by Roland Park on one side and Guilford on the other, the two priciest neighborhoods in Baltimore? I don’t think you actually went there.

The actual campus is about 50 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, and there are tons of businesses along Saint Paul that also were not there 20 years ago. The Rotunda has been rebuilt as an outdoor mall with a good number of restaurants. And that third side of Hopkins? It borders Hampden which is young professional bars and restaurant central these days.

Roland Park and Guilford are not right by Homewood. Kids without cars will rarely stray into those neighborhoods. They are far more likely to cross North Avenue though going to a party on Saturday night, where I used to pray that the light would be green.

Yes, they are. And North Avenue is not near campus nor would any Hopkins student be likely to be crossing it at any time, let alone a Saturday night. You are just making things up.

People like you are SO obnoxious.

I was a student there for almost five years. It is very possible that your experience was different than mine.

BUT mine is based upon actually living there as a Hopkins student. That makes if JUST AS VALID as yours, or more so.

Doubtful as you seem completely unfamiliar with the location of campus. Nice attempt by a troll.