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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes, because all cities are dangerous hotbeds of crime! A rather provincial, close-minded outlook, no?

Quite literally every college, university, art school has campus security, key card-protected doors and receptionists in every building and residence hall, etc. And in urban areas, your child is most certainly within closer proximity to police and emergency responders.

But if your DC shares such a pessimistic view of urban areas and general closemindedness, perhaps they're not ready for art school[/quote]

Nice straw man you built there. It is not a stupid question, and OP did not cast aspersions on urban areas in general. My DC wanted to go to college in a city, and it turns out that many universities in cities happen to be in relatively high crime areas, even when the cities themselves are generally not. I do not consider Atlanta to be “unsafe” as a city, but Georgia Tech is in a relatively high-crime area. Safety on campus is definitely an issue there. There have been lengthy threads here about campus safety that were generated by students being murdered at the University of Chicago and Columbia, and shorter discussions about schools like Temple and Rhodes. My DC, for one, did not want to feel like a prisoner on campus. [/quote]

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