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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: Not sure why.  Maybe she hasn't had the time with all the AP classes and extracurriculars?  But, since its not part of her or her friends' lives, she's really not interested.  I did think that she would like a smaller school better.  I know the women's colleges would be good but she's not interested in single sex schools.[/quote]

New poster. I have a senior DD much like yours, OP, and have been wondering the same things.

I see posters here saying large schools are better but that sounds like such a generic statement to me. I get the idea that at small schools maybe there's more of an insular environment so maybe students get into drinking and drugs out of... Boredom? To fit in? But that makes the assumption that small schools lack outlets for students to "find their people" like they can at large schools. I can't really buy that, based on what we've seen touring quite a few small LACs and what we've heard from families we know with kids at small- to mid-sized colleges. I think there may be some stereotypes of small schools in play here. I'll follow the thread for sure.

As for PP asking about raising a high schooler who doesn't party, drink etc., like OP, for us part of the equation is a kid who is just too busy to have a lot of random hangout time or to go off to hang with kids we've never met. DD has a very time-consuming extracurricular she loves and that means when she's not doing that, she's doing schoolwork. Kids who take the rigorous classes plus have something that's a strong interest tend not to have much time for messing around. Yes, kids do need down time but they can be solidly busy without being over scheduled.[/quote]

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