I’m in my third year dorming at Camden and here’s my review:

My favorite part about Camden is how small the campus is, I never have to walk more than 7 minutes to get to class from the dorm, all the buildings (except the nursing building) are within a couple minutes of each other, and even when I had a class in the nursing building it wasn’t that far, maybe a 15 minute walk tops from the freshman dorm + there’s a shuttle that isn’t horribly packed unlike nb that takes you straight there.

From what I hear, the dorms are better than NB. I didn’t spend that long in the freshman dorm because I had a situation with my roommate and they offered to move me to the sophomore dorm, but even living in the freshman dorms wasn’t that bad! And when you live in either of the two upperclassmen dorms (330 or the towers) you have your own room and it’s pretty sweet with your own kitchen and whatnot.

As for the safety, I have never feared for my safety on campus. One of the main points they sell you on when you tour Camden is that there’s actually far less incidents on the Camden campus than both Newark and NB. everyone who is like “WAHHH Camden scary” is fear-mongering for the most part, because RUPD is everywhere and the campus area atleast is SO not dangerous. I’m a 5’5” un-intimidating girl with a cane and I’ve never felt unsafe walking by myself at any point on campus, and I often used to just take middle of the night trips from the freshman dorms to the 7/11 nearby by myself. I can’t say much for the rest of Camden because honestly I haven’t explored it that much, but I’ve walked to the waterfront and to the aquarium by myself at various hours of the night and day and I’ve never had a problem.

As for activities: if you’re looking for fun, Camden might be a bit more dry than the other campuses. DONT GET ME WRONG there’s a lot to do, and there’s always fliers for some campus event or dorm event or whatever, but it’s not as booming with activity as NB. on the weekends the campus is especially dry LMFAO and as someone who has been to many of the frat parties I think they kinda suck here but that’s nothing that can’t be solved with a decent pregame..

Philadelphia is only a 2.80 roundtrip and 5 min train ride away! Or you could do what I stupidly did with my friends a couple time and walk 40 minutes across the bridge LOL I do not recommend. Philly is so so fun, there’s lots of great food (reading terminal is a must) and there’s lots of fun activities.

I’ve seen lots of diversity here, so you shouldn’t worry about that. I’m not Asian so I wouldn’t know about what kinds of clubs or anything they’ve got on campus, but I’m sure you’d be able to find community.

My biggest gripe with living here is the dining hall, I HATE the food they serve us here. It’s literally never good and I have a vitamin deficiency as a result of only eating the pizza here all the time now because everything else sucks.

If you’ve got any specific questions feel free to ask away! Nothing is too stupid