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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What *is* your child into? That might be a good clue.
As pps said, an urban campus could be a fit, with lots of other activities, or a big school with a variety.

A serious school like U Chicago or a nerdy one like Harvey Mudd will have lots of non drinkers.

If your child is religious a religious school will have non drinkers as well.

Service organizations, people training to be EMTs etc will likely have lots of socialization not involving drinking.[/quote]

Not what I’ve heard about Mudd (which, is small enough that “lots” of non drinkers seems unlikely).  Scale is such that it’s a plausible claim re UChicago. Info based on 2020 grads from both schools. Both are definitely schools where there are kids who deal with academic pressure by drinking heavily. Maybe it’s important in this context to distinguish between schools for kids who have no interest in drinking and still want to have active social lives vs schools for kids who are tempted/inclined to drink but whose parents want them to be in safe environments. Mudd’s drinking culture seems more communal/pervasive than Chicago’s (which is more localized and/or solitary — eg kid found dead of alcohol poisoning in his dorm room days after the fact). Neither strikes me as a good school for the tempted kid. My not-interested kid was fine socially @ Chicago. In addition to scale, having other places to do/things to do rather than party on campus probably makes a difference for some kids.[/quote]

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