Lived near the loop in a mixed neighborhood. Was there crime? Yes. Any more than other major cities? No. I've spent plenty of time downtown and never felt even slightly unsafe.
The thing is, Wash U pulls from all over the country, and a ton of kids go straight into grad school. Of course kids from the east coast and California tend to move elsewhere.
What you would need to look at are rates by metro area. The St Louis metro area is carved up into dozens of little towns with the poorer areas concentrated in the actual city of St Louis. Most of the St Louis area population doesn't live in the rougher parts of town actually in the city of St Louis.
The stats are wrongly compiled. St. Louis isn't in the top 10 if you include the metro area, as you should: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efel45mde/1-detroit-mich/#gallerycontent
Im from St. Louis and it looks like the team is slowly improving. They brought in a good crop of distance men this past year. Give the coach an email. It cant hurt to at least contact him and see what its all about.
XYZU wrote:
Im from St. Louis and it looks like the team is slowly improving. They brought in a good crop of distance men this past year. Give the coach an email. It cant hurt to at least contact him and see what its all about.
Which school are you talking about? Maryville? I will look into it. As far as crime goes, I'm not all that concerned, as I would spend the majority of time on campus and very little actually out in the city. I was in St. Louis on one other occasion a few years back and my family went to a Cardinals game. The downtown seemed fine.
spin it anyway you like brother. the place is dead. hows the economy doing in stl?
I think he was talking about Saint Louis University which is supposed to be a pretty good school (I know that around town it has a pretty good reputation). I will say that the new track they just built is pretty darn nice.
I was thinking about going to WashU for graduate school a few years ago and went and visited. It seemed like St. Louis was either super-ritzy or total ghetto, with not much in between.
bangalangadanga wrote:
truman state has a great program and strong distance tradition.
You mean "HAD"
What about this year, all St. Louis teams are killing it... well besides Maryville.
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True, Wash u has been on fire but they have no chance of beating North Central at nationals, but they still have a couple chances. They will no doubt win the UAA this year. As for the rest of the STL teams SLU isn't exactly a powerhouse in the A10 not to mention D1 as a whole.Maryville couldn't compete in the SLIAC, their top guy would be behind 2 Principia runners, A greenville kid, a Fontbonne kid, and a a Webster kid. Principia has wylie who has gone under 25 3 times already this year!! So you could say the SLIAC is on the up and up.
Lindenwood isn't doing that great either i guess.
The other Lindenwood is almost just as bad, What St. Louis team are we missing?!?! All I know is WUSTL is going to roll and SLIAC may have three people at nationals this year, at best.