Colleges in major cities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SMU in Dallas - beautiful campus in an upscale and safe neighborhood.

It's a 3-hour flight to Dallas from DC, and there are lots of flights to/from Dallas Love Field and DFW airport. (Both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have hubs there.)

Also, it's kind of a nice size, in that it's a bit larger than many private colleges. It has a total enrollment of 11,000 (of which 7,000 are undergraduate students).

SMU does have a fairly unique placement geographically — don’t really know of other schools that are in a neighborhood that nice that is just a few miles from the downtown of a major city. The Park Cities and the Campus have their own police forces and the area is also covered by Dallas police. A student told me that they knew someone who pulled the alarm on an emergency box on campus and police from all three jurisdictions showed up.

There are several others
Boston College, most obviously, with the city line running through campus, easy public transportation, fancy homes surrounding the suburban side
Northwestern
Brown
Rice
Emory
Vandy
Villanova
Tufts (Medford isn't quite as nice as Newton) and most of the other schools in the Boston suburbs (Brandeis etc)

[Anonymous]

As my friend who is a reporter and author covering crime and criminal justice policy frequently says, conventional wisdom on crime is always wrong. PP’s implicit assumption that suburbs or small towns are safer than large cities is not correct — small towns with ineffective policing are some of the most dangerous places in the country per capita.

Here’s a data driven analysis of the 25 most dangerous colleges based on rates of reported violent crime. The methodology is explained so that readers can judge for themselves if they agree.

https://www.degreechoices.com/blog/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Temple is not on this list, but Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Minnesota, Auburn, Texas Tech, Texas state, University of Houston, UAB, UF Gainesville, and UC San Diego are.

Its better to look at data than ask the opinions of uninformed internet strangers (including me - I haven’t looked closely at the methodology of this list).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SMU in Dallas - beautiful campus in an upscale and safe neighborhood.

It's a 3-hour flight to Dallas from DC, and there are lots of flights to/from Dallas Love Field and DFW airport. (Both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have hubs there.)

Also, it's kind of a nice size, in that it's a bit larger than many private colleges. It has a total enrollment of 11,000 (of which 7,000 are undergraduate students).

SMU does have a fairly unique placement geographically — don’t really know of other schools that are in a neighborhood that nice that is just a few miles from the downtown of a major city. The Park Cities and the Campus have their own police forces and the area is also covered by Dallas police. A student told me that they knew someone who pulled the alarm on an emergency box on campus and police from all three jurisdictions showed up.

There are several others
Boston College, most obviously, with the city line running through campus, easy public transportation, fancy homes surrounding the suburban side
Northwestern
Brown
Rice
Emory
Vandy
Villanova
Tufts (Medford isn't quite as nice as Newton) and most of the other schools in the Boston suburbs (Brandeis etc)

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SMU in Dallas - beautiful campus in an upscale and safe neighborhood.

It's a 3-hour flight to Dallas from DC, and there are lots of flights to/from Dallas Love Field and DFW airport. (Both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have hubs there.)

Also, it's kind of a nice size, in that it's a bit larger than many private colleges. It has a total enrollment of 11,000 (of which 7,000 are undergraduate students).

SMU does have a fairly unique placement geographically — don’t really know of other schools that are in a neighborhood that nice that is just a few miles from the downtown of a major city. The Park Cities and the Campus have their own police forces and the area is also covered by Dallas police. A student told me that they knew someone who pulled the alarm on an emergency box on campus and police from all three jurisdictions showed up.

There are several others
Boston College, most obviously, with the city line running through campus, easy public transportation, fancy homes surrounding the suburban side
Northwestern
Brown
Rice
Emory
Vandy
Villanova
Tufts (Medford isn't quite as nice as Newton) and most of the other schools in the Boston suburbs (Brandeis etc)

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

I was responding to the PP who was saying that SMU's location is unique. I was not responding to OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

Depends on what OP is looking for, whether they want to be in the middle of the city or a traditional defined campus on the edge of the city.

(Not to distract from the thread, but even though Northeastern theoretically has a defined campus, personally I dislike Northeastern's campus. Feels un-unified and nontraditional in spite of that.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

Depends on what OP is looking for, whether they want to be in the middle of the city or a traditional defined campus on the edge of the city.

(Not to distract from the thread, but even though Northeastern theoretically has a defined campus, personally I dislike Northeastern's campus. Feels un-unified and nontraditional in spite of that.)

Our family visited all four schools, and all three of my kids fell in love with Northeastern. It felt like the perfect combination of a city and a defined campus. The campus had a modern feel. Kids who prefer an urban setting don't care much about 'traditional' One of my kids is attending now.

My kids were turned off by Tufts' campus and location. Tufts to Boston is more like GMU/UMD to Washington D.C. Boston College's campus was nice, but it's only slightly better in terms of location and vibe.

However, as you said, it's strictly a matter of personal taste and preference.
People really need to visit them for themselves. 

My impression from OP by "DS wants to go to a college in a major city", it's likely Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

Depends on what OP is looking for, whether they want to be in the middle of the city or a traditional defined campus on the edge of the city.

(Not to distract from the thread, but even though Northeastern theoretically has a defined campus, personally I dislike Northeastern's campus. Feels un-unified and nontraditional in spite of that.)

Our family visited all four schools, and all three of my kids fell in love with Northeastern. It felt like the perfect combination of a city and a defined campus. The campus had a modern feel. Kids who prefer an urban setting don't care much about 'traditional' One of my kids is attending now.

My kids were turned off by Tufts' campus and location. Tufts to Boston is more like GMU/UMD to Washington D.C. Boston College's campus was nice, but it's only slightly better in terms of location and vibe.

However, as you said, it's strictly a matter of personal taste and preference.
People really need to visit them for themselves. 

My impression from OP by "DS wants to go to a college in a major city", it's likely Northeastern.

Check out reddit on NEU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

Depends on what OP is looking for, whether they want to be in the middle of the city or a traditional defined campus on the edge of the city.

(Not to distract from the thread, but even though Northeastern theoretically has a defined campus, personally I dislike Northeastern's campus. Feels un-unified and nontraditional in spite of that.)

Our family visited all four schools, and all three of my kids fell in love with Northeastern. It felt like the perfect combination of a city and a defined campus. The campus had a modern feel. Kids who prefer an urban setting don't care much about 'traditional' One of my kids is attending now.

My kids were turned off by Tufts' campus and location. Tufts to Boston is more like GMU/UMD to Washington D.C. Boston College's campus was nice, but it's only slightly better in terms of location and vibe.

However, as you said, it's strictly a matter of personal taste and preference.
People really need to visit them for themselves. 

My impression from OP by "DS wants to go to a college in a major city", it's likely Northeastern.

Check out reddit on NEU.

Thanks for the invitation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U

Boston College and Tufts are weird choices when they have Boston University and Northeastern.

Depends on what OP is looking for, whether they want to be in the middle of the city or a traditional defined campus on the edge of the city.

(Not to distract from the thread, but even though Northeastern theoretically has a defined campus, personally I dislike Northeastern's campus. Feels un-unified and nontraditional in spite of that.)

Our family visited all four schools, and all three of my kids fell in love with Northeastern. It felt like the perfect combination of a city and a defined campus. The campus had a modern feel. Kids who prefer an urban setting don't care much about 'traditional' One of my kids is attending now.

My kids were turned off by Tufts' campus and location. Tufts to Boston is more like GMU/UMD to Washington D.C. Boston College's campus was nice, but it's only slightly better in terms of location and vibe.

However, as you said, it's strictly a matter of personal taste and preference.
People really need to visit them for themselves. 

My impression from OP by "DS wants to go to a college in a major city", it's likely Northeastern.

Check out reddit on NEU.

Beware. There is an NEU hater from DCUM confirmed on on or two of the other common college boards.

If you are admitted to NEU, the parents are very knowledgeable, resourceful and helpful - so those particular parents are your best bet, BUT you have to be admitted first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As my friend who is a reporter and author covering crime and criminal justice policy frequently says, conventional wisdom on crime is always wrong. PP’s implicit assumption that suburbs or small towns are safer than large cities is not correct — small towns with ineffective policing are some of the most dangerous places in the country per capita.

Here’s a data driven analysis of the 25 most dangerous colleges based on rates of reported violent crime. The methodology is explained so that readers can judge for themselves if they agree.

https://www.degreechoices.com/blog/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Temple is not on this list, but Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Minnesota, Auburn, Texas Tech, Texas state, University of Houston, UAB, UF Gainesville, and UC San Diego are.

Its better to look at data than ask the opinions of uninformed internet strangers (including me - I haven’t looked closely at the methodology of this list).

I'll save you some time: the methodology here leaves much to be desired. Put simply, anyone who thinks Auburn is more dangerous than Temple is totally 'tarded.

So, leaving aside your gross use of a slur referring to people with intellectual disabilities, you don’t actually say what you think is wrong with the methodology. It’s pretty clear cut after all. I suspect, based on your chosen slur, that your opinion has zero to do with data and everything to do with your own prejudices.

PP is an object lesson in the conventional wisdom about crime being dead wrong. They probably think they are also more at risk from terrorism than they are from a car accident because that’s what they saw on TV.

[Anonymous]

Wow, crime at Auburn seems to be out of control. They are at the far right of the scale toward “more crime” in every category compared to the average for all schools.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/auburn-university/student-life/crime/#:~:text=Auburn%20Overall%20Crime%20Stats&text=Based%20on%20a%20student%20body,a%20school%20in%20that%20category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As my friend who is a reporter and author covering crime and criminal justice policy frequently says, conventional wisdom on crime is always wrong. PP’s implicit assumption that suburbs or small towns are safer than large cities is not correct — small towns with ineffective policing are some of the most dangerous places in the country per capita.

Here’s a data driven analysis of the 25 most dangerous colleges based on rates of reported violent crime. The methodology is explained so that readers can judge for themselves if they agree.

https://www.degreechoices.com/blog/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Temple is not on this list, but Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Minnesota, Auburn, Texas Tech, Texas state, University of Houston, UAB, UF Gainesville, and UC San Diego are.

Its better to look at data than ask the opinions of uninformed internet strangers (including me - I haven’t looked closely at the methodology of this list).

I'll save you some time: the methodology here leaves much to be desired. Put simply, anyone who thinks Auburn is more dangerous than Temple is totally 'tarded.

Auburn has almost three times the per capita incidence of violence against women (3.05 per thousand at Auburn vs 1.16 at Temple) and a slightly higher rate of major crime (2.86 per thousand at Auburn vs 2.5 per 1000 at Temple).

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/auburn-university/student-life/crime/#

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/temple-university/student-life/crime/#

[Anonymous]

second the person who said Pitt- under rated city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As my friend who is a reporter and author covering crime and criminal justice policy frequently says, conventional wisdom on crime is always wrong. PP’s implicit assumption that suburbs or small towns are safer than large cities is not correct — small towns with ineffective policing are some of the most dangerous places in the country per capita.

Here’s a data driven analysis of the 25 most dangerous colleges based on rates of reported violent crime. The methodology is explained so that readers can judge for themselves if they agree.

https://www.degreechoices.com/blog/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Temple is not on this list, but Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Minnesota, Auburn, Texas Tech, Texas state, University of Houston, UAB, UF Gainesville, and UC San Diego are.

Its better to look at data than ask the opinions of uninformed internet strangers (including me - I haven’t looked closely at the methodology of this list).

I'll save you some time: the methodology here leaves much to be desired. Put simply, anyone who thinks Auburn is more dangerous than Temple is totally 'tarded.

Auburn has almost three times the per capita incidence of violence against women (3.05 per thousand at Auburn vs 1.16 at Temple) and a slightly higher rate of major crime (2.86 per thousand at Auburn vs 2.5 per 1000 at Temple).

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/auburn-university/student-life/crime/#

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/temple-university/student-life/crime/#

(a) You’re probably going to find higher per capita rates in any small town where the student population outnumbers the local population;

(b) Do you really think Philly and NY and San Francisco crime statistics are anywhere close to correct? I’d rather send my kid to a town where they actually enforce the law and put people who commit crimes in jail. Guess what? They’re going to have higher “crime rates” because they don’t ignore crime.