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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unsafe, cutthroat, nerdy environment are often used by people who can't get in or afford to pay.

That being said, DC is as safe as Baltimore.[/quote]

My Humanities kid is at George Washington. He feels safe at GW, which has campus police everywhere. It's all clean and kept up, even though it's open concept and embedded in the city. Georgetown is enclosed and felt safe too when we visited.

Can anyone compare safety on those campuses compared to the Johns Hopkins campus?[/quote]

The cities are set up differently. In DC you can steer clear of the highest crime neighborhoods. In Baltimore you have to drive through them to go to parties or the fun neighborhoods. Plus, it has a huge drug problem. Which leads to crime and violence.

I have lived in both cities. [/quote]

But apparently aren’t familiar with the Hopkins campus.  Pp, Hopkins undergrad is in a much less urban part of the city than GW, it is surrounded by residential neighborhoods on all sides.  Access to the parts of downtown popular with students, ie. Harbor East, Fed Hill, Fells Point and Hampden, does not involved driving through high crime neighborhoods.

Unlike GW, the Hopkins campus is set off from the surrounding neighborhoods and has a lot of green space.  The undergrad campus encompasses 140 acres.  There is a small area of restaurants geared to students in Charles Village, about 3 blocks worth.  Baltimore museum of Art is an immediate neighbor.  Hopkins campus is not gated, there is security to enter the dorms.  [/quote]

The Homewood Campus is highly secured and gated.

When did you attend JHU?  Baltimore, including the neighborhoods around the Homewood Campus, have become cesspools of drugged out, dangerous adults.

Are kids safe when they are on campus?  Yes, JHU generally does a great job at keeping the criminals off of the actual campus.  Are they safe once they leave?  Nope. The campus police cannot protect them and the Baltimore police force is overwhelmed and full of corruption.

Bring your teen to the area right around campus on any night after sunset.  Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable droping them off and leaving them there? [/quote]

The campus is not gated.  I don’t think you have ever been there.  And yes, I would drop either of my teens, who live in Baltimore, off there at night.  In fact, I have.  They sometimes go for dinner in Charles Village with their friends.[/quote]

Agreed.  There are some trolls here who hate Baltimore.

If you want to see, go to Google maps and put in 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore.  Drop the little man for street view.  There, you will see the main gate of Hopkins.  No gate.  You can go to the right and go north on N. Charles and you will more towards the undergraduate quad where the freshmen stay.  No walls, no gates.  Anyone can walk from Charles Street onto campus because it's an open campus.  Go to Wyman Park Drive and you will see the south side entrance.  This is the one near the Engineering quad and the administrative offices.  No walls, no fences, no gates.

The troll above who talks about it being a gated campus has never been there, or is confusing it with some other university.[/quote]

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