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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If campus itself was otherwise very safe?[/quote]

No
Both of my kids attended colleges that were in urban areas next to "not so safe areas".  It is fine, your kid just needs to be aware of this.  In fact in some ways they are more aware of issues than kids on a suburban/rural campus, who "think it's safer" but isn't really.

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+ 1 , same here
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Many of the crimes are crimes of opportunity where my kids are/went.  Current kid's campus had a student robbed at gun point a month ago, on a Fri or Sat night at 2am, as the kid walked back to campus from a party ALONE.  Kid was a freshman football player.  As my DD says, yeah he walked back alone at 2am, everyone knows you simply don't do that.  The area off campus, where the parties are and many students live "off campus" is not the best area.  The crime is higher, because it's crimes of opporuntity---they know they can rob naive unaware college students who do stupid stuff (and yes, I define walking home alone at 2am as stupid, especially after being at a party where they obviously had been drinking).  All the incidents I and my kid hear about are of someone who was Solo

All of my kids have also been taught that if you are attacked/robbed, give up your possessions, we will replace them, they are replaceable but you are not.  Because my older kid went to a campus that makes the campus/area described above seem very safe.  So think very urban area, in the heart of a city, right next to one of the highest crime areas in the city.  Fortunately my kid never had anything happen in their 4 years, but a lot of that has to do with being street smart.  [/quote]

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