I've got a Model 88 Maverick in my closet waiting to give anyone who breaks in a face full of buckshot. No permit to carry though, not yet anyways. My neighborhood isn't too bad but my city is. I think my sister would have been a lot happier in Miami if she'd had a gun, but she's not comfortable with that, which is too bad.

Wayne State, in Detroit, is a good example of "Very safe campus, not so safe city". Their crime rate on campus is among the lowest of college campuses in Michigan. The surrounding neighborhood, not so much!

My daughter did say that at Barnard last week, the campus was very isolated from NYC. She loved how it felt like you were on a small campus and then you went through the gate and BAM, there was NYC.

Keep in mind that it being in your closet doesn't mean you're ready to use it. Also remain familiar with the laws regarding breaking faces full of buckshot. ;)

Be careful with who you announce this gun to. People who boast of gun possession sometimes either have their gun stolen or physically used against them. Remember that the difference between you and the majority of motivated offenders is that THEY are the motivated offenders who are more likely than you to be fully prepared/willing to use that gun.

Oh I know. As far as me being ready to use it, all I'll say is that I have a game plan, and it makes it very difficult for the other person to win.

I agree with everyone who says for-profit. This would be the only schools I would say 'absolutely not' to. I'd probably say no to any online program as well.

There are places I'd prefer they didn't go but wouldn't stop them if that's where they really wanted to go. Like what ever school I'm working at (I'm going into student affairs). While free/discounted tuition is tempting, College is time to grow on your own. Plus who wants their mother to know everything they're up to?
And if they really want to annoy me (which if they turn out anything like me, I'm sure they will), they'll go to Michigan. I'm raising State fans :D

SLU is in Midtown and although they're working to improve, or even gentrify, the area around campus there is no 'campus town.' I had friends get mugged (for $1, because they were college students who didn't carry cash), and they shut the big gates around campus at night to discourage people cutting through who don't belong. So I learned how to walk in a city, WHEN to walk in a city, where to keep my money and when not to cross the street yet because there's someone hanging out on the sidewalk, and better safe than sorry. Those lessons helped me live in my poor, but not particularly 'bad' neighborhood in grad school and work even work with my current population. It's an attitude thing.

YMMV

/not participating in the OP of this thread on purpose

UC is in a notsogreat part of Cincinnati, and there's crime all over the area, but I would have no issue with my kids going there and living on campus. It's the moving off-campus that would concern me.

Dangerous...I think as a mom it would be hard...but yes. Hopefully if/when I have kids they will be street-smart. My poor niece went straight from the suburbs to a major city for college! But she is doing great.

I worked at the Women's Center while at a "safe" rural campus...rapes happen on ALL campuses. Stranger, date rape, drugging, etc. Women just have to be taught to be REALLY careful!

I'm (hopefully) going to grad school in a major (dangerous) city next year. I better get my head out of my @ss because I've been living with cattle for neighbors for too long :/ I went to visit the city in May and felt soooooo clueless!

UNC Chapel Hill (as if you couldn't guess).

Any of the other UNC schools I could live with, but UNC-CH is grounds for disinheritance.

My niece is at UC and is renting a house off-campus with a bunch of other girls. Makes me nervous.

UC is a great school and has become extremely competitive because of the internship program. Even though grads take 5 years to graduate, most have good jobs lined up when they finish. My cousin was hired by the companay in which he interned. Hoping the same for my girl.

My (theoretical) kids will never attend Ohio State. Ever.

Prefer if they attend a campus with some Greek Life but it doesn't have to be anything outrageous. My school had a small Greek community and I loved it.

Wherever they do go, they WILL live on campus. I lived in the dorms freshman & soph years and then campus apts the rest of the time and I know that my college experience wouldn't have been the same if I hadn't lived on campus.

I take it that Midtown = Midtown St. Louis rather than Midtown Manhattan.

In any case, you have to look like you know exactly where you're going. If you look confused or lost, you look like prey.

There's a Midtown Manhattan?

/question answered ;)

If I am ever drunk enough to have kids, let alone daughter, they will not go to University of Colorado nor Colorado State. They will only be permitted to go to College College and and University of Denver.
University of Utah is not an option.

If they even think of applying to Arizona State University, they will be sent to be deprogrammed/reform school/have their DNA checked, followed by being disowned...you get the point.