Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:45
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
Methinks you are confusing Penn with Temple. Penn is fine.
As a child of Spruce Hill, I don't know if I would say "fine." There's crime. And I used to know someone who was tragically shot near campus. In the 90s. Grad student. But the campus itself is safe, and the standard city rules apply: be aware of your surroundings, if you think someone is following you change directions, if they keep following, start walking in the street... Try to keep two people who aren't together in eye shot, or go into a store, etc.
Penn is a lot safer than Temple. And my own kid applies to Drexel. If they get in with $, I'd be happy to send.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:44
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
The area to the west of Penn has been a yuppie neighborhood since I was a child in the 70s. Sure, it waxes and wanes, and crime has always been a problem--and I'm sure still is--but it is also, very urban (in every sense of the word), walkable to Penn and Drexel, served by trolley lines and buses that also go to Penn and Drexel. It's a pedestrian neighborhood. Feels a lot safer to me than DC and that's not just because I was roller skating around it at age seven after dark. (Ah, the 70s.)
I don't know...I wouldn't consider the area West of Penn a yuppie neighborhood. The area East of Penn (you cross the river and that is where downtown starts)...that is a yuppie neighborhood. You sure you have your directions correct?
Absolutely. You sure you've ever been west of 40th Street? Guess not.
Yeah, I have been West of 40th Street...but admittedly not further than what used to be the old Murphy's tavern (I think that was 44th?). Again, I would never call that a yuppie area.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:41
Subject: Colleges in major cities
CWRU is in a great part of Cleveland
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:35
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Is NYU in a safe area? It seems like a “nice” part of Manhattan but obviously a big city. My son wants to go there and that lack of campus does worry me.
yes
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:33
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
Methinks you are confusing Penn with Temple. Penn is fine.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:32
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
The area to the west of Penn has been a yuppie neighborhood since I was a child in the 70s. Sure, it waxes and wanes, and crime has always been a problem--and I'm sure still is--but it is also, very urban (in every sense of the word), walkable to Penn and Drexel, served by trolley lines and buses that also go to Penn and Drexel. It's a pedestrian neighborhood. Feels a lot safer to me than DC and that's not just because I was roller skating around it at age seven after dark. (Ah, the 70s.)
I don't know...I wouldn't consider the area West of Penn a yuppie neighborhood. The area East of Penn (you cross the river and that is where downtown starts)...that is a yuppie neighborhood. You sure you have your directions correct?
Absolutely. You sure you've ever been west of 40th Street? Guess not.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:28
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
And the NEED tons of security because the area sucks.
It's The Hamptons compared to Temple's neighborhood. Need a GUN to walk to class safely at that school.
Yes. For Philly or Philly-adjacent schools, Penn, Villanova, Drexel, and St. Joe’s are all fine. Temple on the other hand is like going to school in NE or SE.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:24
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Is NYU in a safe area? It seems like a “nice” part of Manhattan but obviously a big city. My son wants to go there and that lack of campus does worry me.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:08
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
WTF are you talking about? You clearly are someone that lives in the exurbs and are afraid of every city. I literally guarantee that if you pick ANY college located in any city...that yes, there are people getting shot and stabbed near that campus. That's life in US cities, but if you have your wits about you it will never impact you as a student personally. I mean, USC, GA Tech, Yale, Columbia...the list goes on. Certain schools are in very dangerous parts of cities...the area around Temple probably has 5x the amount of crime as the area around Penn.
If you want far less dangerous urban campuses, you need to look outside the US. Look at Toronto or McGill or consider UK universities.
No. My sister attended graduated last year. Nice try though. There’s a thing that’s called personal knowledge which I have and then there’s a thing called Google which anybody can do and find out how awful the crime is in that area -you’re clearly not from the area or familiar with it.
No, you are f**knuts that is making s**t up. My kid goes there as we speak. I have been up there multiple times in the last 6 months, while I guess you are just asking your sister.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:07
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
The area to the west of Penn has been a yuppie neighborhood since I was a child in the 70s. Sure, it waxes and wanes, and crime has always been a problem--and I'm sure still is--but it is also, very urban (in every sense of the word), walkable to Penn and Drexel, served by trolley lines and buses that also go to Penn and Drexel. It's a pedestrian neighborhood. Feels a lot safer to me than DC and that's not just because I was roller skating around it at age seven after dark. (Ah, the 70s.)
I don't know...I wouldn't consider the area West of Penn a yuppie neighborhood. The area East of Penn (you cross the river and that is where downtown starts)...that is a yuppie neighborhood. You sure you have your directions correct?
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:07
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
WTF are you talking about? You clearly are someone that lives in the exurbs and are afraid of every city. I literally guarantee that if you pick ANY college located in any city...that yes, there are people getting shot and stabbed near that campus. That's life in US cities, but if you have your wits about you it will never impact you as a student personally. I mean, USC, GA Tech, Yale, Columbia...the list goes on. Certain schools are in very dangerous parts of cities...the area around Temple probably has 5x the amount of crime as the area around Penn.
If you want far less dangerous urban campuses, you need to look outside the US. Look at Toronto or McGill or consider UK universities.
No. My sister attended graduated last year. Nice try though. There’s a thing that’s called personal knowledge which I have and then there’s a thing called Google which anybody can do and find out how awful the crime is in that area -you’re clearly not from the area or familiar with it.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:05
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
WTF are you talking about? You clearly are someone that lives in the exurbs and are afraid of every city. I literally guarantee that if you pick ANY college located in any city...that yes, there are people getting shot and stabbed near that campus. That's life in US cities, but if you have your wits about you it will never impact you as a student personally. I mean, USC, GA Tech, Yale, Columbia...the list goes on. Certain schools are in very dangerous parts of cities...the area around Temple probably has 5x the amount of crime as the area around Penn.
If you want far less dangerous urban campuses, you need to look outside the US. Look at Toronto or McGill or consider UK universities.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:04
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drexel and Penn are fine with a lot of visible security.
Penn? Please the Warzone people are getting stabbed and shot right near campus. Stop spreading lies.
The area to the west of Penn has been a yuppie neighborhood since I was a child in the 70s. Sure, it waxes and wanes, and crime has always been a problem--and I'm sure still is--but it is also, very urban (in every sense of the word), walkable to Penn and Drexel, served by trolley lines and buses that also go to Penn and Drexel. It's a pedestrian neighborhood. Feels a lot safer to me than DC and that's not just because I was roller skating around it at age seven after dark. (Ah, the 70s.)
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:00
Subject: Re:Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ohio State — Columbus is a good city
St. Joe’s is right outside of Philly
GWU
American
Loyola Maryland
Ohio State no
St Joe's crappy school no
OP Pitt, North Carolina State, American, Drexel, Any Boston school.
St Joe's is no less "crappy" (nice vocab!) than American or Drexel.
Anonymous
02/02/2024 17:00
Subject: Colleges in major cities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC, Tufts, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Gtown, Rice, Wash U
GA Tech isn’t in a safe area. I took a wrong turn very close to campus—yikes.
Hey, if you are afraid of every city...please, just don't respond. GA Tech is walking distance to some of the hip areas of Atlanta. Walking the other direction gets sketchy...but there is little reason to walk the other direction.