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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Campus is pretty. They have an arboretum. When we were looking at it, they were trying a new format of degree requirements, and I am not sure how that worked out. The other applicants looked overwhelmingly preppy. Town itself is next to Mystic, which is nice, but the actual downtown of New London is VERY grungy (and not in a charming way). It does have an Amtrak station, which is convenient for going home. According to posts online, [b]binge drinking (followed by hookups) dominate the weekend experience, in a way that many women do not appreciate. [/b]We declined their acceptance but they seemed to put sincere effort into recruiting ethnic minorities (including Asian-Americans).  [/quote]

So, like the vast majority of colleges and universities.  I wonder if women realize:  no one is forcing them to binge drink and/or hookup afterwards?   :roll:  :roll: 
- a woman[/quote]

The posters complained that there were not alternatives.,

You reply is irrelevant and hostile [/quote]

No alternatives to binge-drinking and hooking up?  Give us all a break and get real.  [/quote]

From UNIGO:  "I would say that Conn's most negative quality is the pervasive drinking culture."

From NICHE: " If you choose not to drink or party, it can be annoying, because everyone is on campus so it is impossible to avoid.

"As some one who doesn't drink, the emphasis on drinking makes me a little uncomfortable. I respect other people's right to make different choices than my own, but sometimes the noise level and presence of drunk people makes it hard to sleep or study. I don't feel like there is a lot of peer pressure to drink, but sometimes it feels like there isn't much else to do. Drugs are less visible than alcohol, though certainly used. Floralia (Spring Weekend) is particularly bad if you don't want to drink or use drugs, because campus can get crazy and there's no alternative activities."

"Conn is great school but the social life is its main downfall, it is a bar school which sucks and there is not much to do around campus"

"The school is decently lenient about drug use and underage drinking."

"The party scene at this school revolves around partying in cramped singles, heading off to "Ridge" or "Winchester" housing (which either gets broken up or shut down by people blacking out and going to the hospital), or going to "Cro Dances", which feel like a quintessential middle school class on drugs. "

So, PP can protest all she/he wants. Such descriptions, while not expressed by all students, were enough to turn my DC off to the place.[/quote]

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