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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both are good schools.

I would not pay for my DC to attend ColumbiaU, but *only* because the Columbia campus is surrounded by unsafe areas of NYC.   Very unlucky if one’s car were to get a flat tire in that part of NYC.

The area around Penn is not ideal from a safety perspective, but it is visibly safer than just outside Columbia.  This is partly because Penn is buying up adjacent off-campus land and redeveloping it, which pushes some of the violent crime a few blocks further away.[/quote]

The Upper West Side, which is south of Morningside Heights, is not an unsafe area of NYC, and there's a very steep park between Morningside Heights and increasingly gentrified Harlem.  I never felt unsafe in Morningside Heights, because there were always so many people around.  If you got a flat tire in Morningside Heights, you'd be just fine.

Can't really speak to Penn, other than to know that in general NYC has fared much better over the years than Philadelphia.  [/quote]

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