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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a great school, but in a terrible location.  DC took a tour and crossed it off the list based on surrounding area [/quote]

Yale, Columbia, and Chicago have done just fine with their locations in the not-so-distant past. Hopefully that portion of Baltimore will continue to improve.

Hopkins also has the benefit of the name recognition that its med school and hospital provide. It was a popular school for kids in Mountain View and Palo Alto, CA to look at when I was out there. [/quote]

Columbia's immediate surroundings are less than ideal but it's based on NYC, a global city. Manhattan is extremely safe for such a large city by American standards.

Chicago's immediate surroundings are pretty bad but again it's based in the 3rd largest American city. It's a matter of knowing which neighborhoods of a the city to avoid.

Baltimore is the 30th largest city in the US, smaller than Memphis, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon. The entire city is dangerous and rundown with very few, small pockets of relative safety.[/quote]

Saying “NYC” evokes images of good areas like the UWS or Greenwich Village.

The actual comparison is between Morningside Heights (Columbia)  and Charles Village (Hopkins). Morningside Heights is dicey at best; a few months ago, a Columbia student was stabbed in Morningside Heights while walking home from soccer practice. Two years before that, a female Columbia student was murdered nearby.

As far as safety goes, I’d give the advantage to Hopkins. [/quote]

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