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Thanks for the responses . I applied to wayne state with an intended major in Theater.
It's a very safe campus, unlike people are saying, and will be a good place for you to do some learning, the people are great, welcoming, VERY friendly. Hope you like it!
I've never encountered crime in Detroit because I have common sense.
Lexington, Kentucky, my college town, is corrupt. We have drug problems, theft. Hell, I've had my car broken into and graffiti sprayed on my wall in a gated neighborhood here in Kentucky, but parked my car on 6 mile for 3 days straight and not a damn thing happened to it. Hell yeah Detroit is a good place to go to school, because I've BEEN to Detroit and the universities there. I have BEEN to Oakland campus, UDM, UMich and WSU (Haven't been to State, probably won't go :P).
All in all, unless you're a moron, you won't find much, if any trouble, adapting to Detroit. It's a great soulful city with an incredible history and culture.
You've obviously never been, or you're the fearmongering type holding the fine city of Detroit back.
I was born there, and my family fled the city a few years after the riots. (I was one year old when they left) My grandmothers house is in an area so dangerous no one would dare go there now. They lived there until they passed away, fearing for what their good neighboors might do to them. Ive heard its much worse now. My great grandmothers house cannot be found, it is in an area where block after block are nothing but foundations and half collapsed structures. A year before my grandmother died, she could not find the house she grew up in. Like I said, weeds and foundations for block after block. It was terrible and depressing. Even areas where people live, all you see is poverty, trash piled up around the houses. You see suspicious looking people everywhere, on the corners and standing in the streets. The city goverment is nothing but organized crime, look at the ex mayor. Policeman are often implicated in crime, using thier position as lawmen to aid in the crime. Dropout rates are over 50%, schools falling down and some of the lowest test scores around. The roads bridges and infrastructure are failing. The only area of the city where there is anything worth seeing is in te downtown. They have a small area that is cleaned up for sporting events, casinos, greektown and cobo hall. The rest of the city is the third world. Worst part is the fact that you have to cross the no mans land that is the neighborhoods of Detroit to get to those tiger games, or casinos. The last time I was in detroit was for the auto show about 8 years ago. THe locals overan the place, pushed us out of the way to sit in the cars and used racial insults towards us. The time before that trip, I was helping push my grandmothers broken down car off the 7 mile road and was threatened with my life if the car wasnt pushed out of the way. Again I was called a racial word that started with the letter H. I have no use for that city, its people and I will never never return. I live out in the center of the state and have no reason to ever go there again. You are out of your mind if you think Detroit proper is a good place to recomend a young kid from Georgia to go too for college. If the OP is listening to this, do yourself a favor, dont even think of it. Find a nice place to go to school. If you want to be in southeast Mi, go to school in the suburbs, Oakland Univ, Eastern mi univ.
Just because you had a **** time when things had gotten their roughest (I honestly believe we can expect an upswing now), doesn't make it a bad city.
If you are intelligent and street-smart, you can do just fine in Detroit. I'd prefer it to any other city.
Detroit isn't some dangerous third-world country, it's a neat place to call home.
Give it a try.
Also, what racial slur begins with the letter H? :S Also, sounds like you're just afraid to assert yourself.
What does him being from Georgia have to do with anything? In short, I look at Detroit similar to Atlanta with less jobs, less traffic, and more fun.
It sounds to me like you're possibly the racist one... Oakland is still in the Detroit metro, just in a more white area. Also, Ypsi isn't exactly the nicest place either. I've never been called a racial slur. Blacks in Detroit are usually very accepting and fun people.
Just because you had a **** time when things had gotten their roughest (I honestly believe we can expect an upswing now), doesn't make it a bad city.
If you are intelligent and street-smart, you can do just fine in Detroit. I'd prefer it to any other city.
Detroit isn't some dangerous third-world country, it's a neat place to call home.
Give it a try.
Also, what racial slur begins with the letter H? :S Also, sounds like you're just afraid to assert yourself.
What does him being from Georgia have to do with anything? In short, I look at Detroit similar to Atlanta with less jobs, less traffic, and more fun.
It sounds to me like you're possibly the racist one... Oakland is still in the Detroit metro, just in a more white area. Also, Ypsi isn't exactly the nicest place either. I've never been called a racial slur. Blacks in Detroit are usually very accepting and fun people.
...and I hang around 6 mile.
FIrst, him being from Georgia means he is clueless about the condition of Detroit, does not know the city so he will be at the mercy of the locals. Also I think you know what racial slur begins with the letter H, but using racial slurs in here will get you booted by the mods. You know that. Also, Ive been pretty upfront about what I think of the people who live in Detroit proper, so no other explenation necessary on that one. Finaly, I am aware that Oakland is in metro Detroit. It is not metro Detroit that is bad or a saftey concern, its Detroit proper, and this kid would do just fine in a suburband area like that. If hes from Atlanta hell feel right at home in the burbs.
If you like Detroit, like to hang around there fine, and yes a street smart person may do better there than most people. Doesnt change the fact that to an outsider, Detroit is a very dangerous place to visit. Im sure your well aware of what statistics say about Detroit and crime/violence. I just think you should be honest about it when someone like the OP is talking about living there. The wrong person could end up losing thier life in an area like that if they dont know anything about it.
FIrst, him being from Georgia means he is clueless about the condition of Detroit, does not know the city so he will be at the mercy of the locals. Also I think you know what racial slur begins with the letter H, but using racial slurs in here will get you booted by the mods. You know that. Also, Ive been pretty upfront about what I think of the people who live in Detroit proper, so no other explenation necessary on that one. Finaly, I am aware that Oakland is in metro Detroit. It is not metro Detroit that is bad or a saftey concern, its Detroit proper, and this kid would do just fine in a suburband area like that. If hes from Atlanta hell feel right at home in the burbs.
If you like Detroit, like to hang around there fine, and yes a street smart person may do better there than most people. Doesnt change the fact that to an outsider, Detroit is a very dangerous place to visit. Im sure your well aware of what statistics say about Detroit and crime/violence. I just think you should be honest about it when someone like the OP is talking about living there. The wrong person could end up losing thier life in an area like that if they dont know anything about it.
Actually if he's from Atlanta he'd probably feel right at home downtown.
I am being honest, you're just a fearmongering fool.
He couldn't lose his life because I'm sure he has enough common sense to make it. I'm from Kentucky and have been going to Detroit forever, and on my very first trip there at age 18 to this very day have had no trouble even in the "bad" parts of town.
Suck it up and grow some balls, it isn't that bad.
Also, I've never heard any slur that begins with H
Those statistics describe places that he would likely never venture, and Detroit really isn't that dangerous in the first place. Most murders, assaults, muggings and robberies etc. all have a drug catalyst involved in the first place, and being at a very busy border crossing, that's to be expected.
Either way, to the OP who applied to WSU, Detroit is a great city, just don't hang around anywhere that doesn't seem safe. The above poster is some crazy old man, likely, that is afraid of any area with any kind of hispanic/arab/black minority as a majority. He's an uninformed fool who had one bad experience with the "h" word, and is now touting it as a horrible place to live.
I'll just say this... If you wouldn't go to a school in Philadelphia, Memphis, St. Louis, you don't belong in Detroit. If you can live in a modern urban environment near or in a major city like the homes of Princeton, MIT, Stanford, OSU, etc., then you'll do fine at WSU. It's not an Ivy League school, but I'm just trying to say it's not dangerous or bad by any means.
There's some really cool people there, hope you enjoy any visit/studying you have there!
Look, I'm helping someone from Kentucky. People from Detroit AND metro Detroit should be HONEST about security in the area.
I don't recommend someone from Kentucky come to the Downtown area. Crime is common around campus and MUCH worse off campus.
EXAMPLE: last year two men were taken off Woodward Ave (campus runs along Woodward Ave) and taken to their apt. and raped at gunpoint by two other men. They were students of the College for Creative Studies. YEAH, two men raped by two other men. Sad and sick. These apartments are directly across campus at Woodward and Ferry Street next to the DIA. The also forced them to go to an ATM and remove their money.
Is that safe? you decide. But I don't recommend anyone not used this city come from outside the area.
Look, I'm helping someone from Kentucky. People from Detroit AND metro Detroit should be HONEST about security in the area.
I don't recommend someone from Kentucky come to the Downtown area. Crime is common around campus and MUCH worse off campus.
EXAMPLE: last year two men were taken off Woodward Ave (campus runs along Woodward Ave) and taken to their apt. and raped at gunpoint by two other men. They were students of the College for Creative Studies. YEAH, two men raped by two other men. Sad and sick. These apartments are directly across campus at Woodward and Ferry Street next to the DIA. The also forced them to go to an ATM and remove their money.
Is that safe? you decide. But I don't recommend anyone not used this city come from outside the area.
...I am from Kentucky and I go to Detroit's downtown all the time.
Also, people get raped here all the time, that's a problem at any college or university that's in a larger city. Gender really doesn't matter, rape is rape.
As I said, common sense will keep you out of any trouble you might experience in Detroit.
Is Wayne State University hard to get into was the original question. I would guess, "no" sense it appears to be ranked as a tier 4 school. 4 is the lowest Tier a school can be and still be ranked. U of M and Michigan State University are tier 1 for reference.
As for the instructor at WSU who felt it was highly regarded as a research institution? If you are Tier FOUR; how much lower can you go than the lowest rank?
Look, it's in a real rough area as well (Detroit is only getting rougher). If you can Breathe and have money, you CAN get admissison. WSU is always desperate for students. But I would consider every other alternative first. I think there are many BETTER options.
I consider an MBA or most MA's meaningless from Wayne. You might as well have got them from Walsh College and it's in a much safer area. Outside Michigan WSU just has no meaning. You might as well have said you got an MBA from "Bug-Tussle University."
Well-regarded as a research institution? Wayne State does a lot of research, but I don't think it's particularly well-regarded. If you leave the Michigan region most people will have never heard of it, including researchers at other institutions. (At least that's the impression I'm under.) A paper published in a scientific journal or otherwise from Wayne State will probably be regarded the same as one published from Arkansas State.
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. I applied to wayne state with an intended major in Theater.
