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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Would you send your kid to school in DuPont circle?  Because that is a pretty good comparison for Hopkins undergrad campus safety[/b],[/quote]

Eh, Homewood on a good day is similar to DuPont in its worst day.  Homewood can be much much worse. [/quote]

Actually no it isn’t.  Dc people tend to forget there is crime in dc whenever Baltimore comes up.

Op, I went to Hopkins as an undergrad in the height of the crack epidemic in the 1990s.  In those days, Hopkins only had on campus housing for freshman.  I was not a victim of crime nor did I know anyone who was.  The area around campus has only gotten nicer, actually significantly nicer since then.

I went to Penn for  grad school and the area around campus was significantly more dangerous.  I think that area is also
Much safer now.[/quote]

I went to JHU and also lived in Dupont Circle for some time. Crime rates aside, these two places are not even comparable. The area around Dupont is a thriving urban center with offices, restaurants, shops, and the metro. Not to mention extremely high-priced housing. [b]In contrast, Homewood has almost nothing going for it outside the university. Most professional people are employed by the university, and most vacate to the suburbs in the evening. Nightlife is virtually non-existent and streets are desolate. The area has a depressing feel of a dying urban rust belt area.[/b] Not even comparable to Dupont.[/quote]

I'm curious as to when you went to JHU and the last time you actually visited campus.  The Rotunda, St. Paul St, Remington/R House, Hampden, Waverly Market, the BMA - not a thriving area? Seriously, I don't think you've been here in the last 20 years.  Is Homewood the same at Dupont? No but it also isn't anything like you've made it out to be.  And if the streets are quiet at night it is because JHU is well known for being the place where "fun comes to die." That said, I see plenty of students out and about all the time.  [/quote]

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