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The area around WashU is nice. We toured last summer and didn't see anything remotely sketch. Delmar Loop is okay, not as lively as UW-Madison's State Street. People who said WashU is unsafe either haven't stepped foot on campus, or have an inexplicable dislike of all things St. Louis.[/quote]

Thanks. I’m thinking any sincere people posting like that got lost and ended up in areas that most WashU students and alumni never see.

We probably should see them more and think harder to help them, but they don’t have a lot to do with life at WashU. [/quote]

I’ve lived in several major cities and visited umpteen more and all cities have terrible areas. What irked me about StL was that the terrible areas were weirdly intermixed with good areas.[/quote]

You’re answering me here.

I think the horrible reason why St. Louis is so block-by-block is that, like Chicago and Detroit, it was hit terribly hard by segregation, the 1960s riots and misguided “urban renewal” and has never fully recovered.

WashU has one of the best social work schools in the country. I did participate in small volunteer program where I saw the “bad parts.” (I played with babies stuck in a group home.)

I don’t think that trashing Emory, Case Western, Rice, Rochester, Tufts or WashU over where they rank in their tier is very nice. They’re all lovely schools playing the hands they’ve been dealt as well as they can.

But I think it is reasonable to wonder why I could spend four years at WashU without ever visiting “the bad parts” for a class, or having a class that taught me why “the bad parts” had problems.

I wish we could get past this sad time when we talk a lot more about EA/ED strategies than about what universities are doing to make “the bad parts” of their communities less bad.

So, on the one hand, bashing WashU because of its location is bizarre, but, if we were talking about how well universities are serving their communities and what they could do better in that regard, that might be an interesting conversation. [/quote] Case, Rochester,  and Tufts arent in that tier. They're 1.5- 2 tiers below. [/quote]

Based on what criteria?  Popularity as defined by applications or yield? Research output? Med school success rates? Employment outcomes?[/quote]

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