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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re Tulane — I spent a lot of my life in NOLA. Tulane is already a very Greek party school and when you add Marci Gras to that you get a school that can really be too much socially for some kids. But extroverted, very socially comfortable kids can go there and love it. I have found when it comes to New Orleans people either love it or hate it with nothing in between. [/quote]

I have never been to a city that was more DRENCHED in alcohol. And I mean for adults visiting for business, not even college students.

Not my idea of a great place to send a kid living on their own for the first time. ..  while I am paying for them to learn.

But luckily, my kid never had any interest in it/the south. [/quote]

Back before Tulance make a move in the ranks, one of my friends who had serious  T1 diabetes went.  He promptly got plastered and died freshman year.  I will never understand what his parents are thing.  Yes, a kid who wants to drink with drink. But, campus culture matters too. And at the time, Tulane was one of the top 5 college for drinkers in the county. Why send a a T1 diabetic to a school where the whole social scene is alcohol? [/quote]m

This seems pretty dramatic. When I was young, WVU had the designation of being #1 party school. The reputation was, there’s absolutely nothing else to do there but drink. Watch out, parents.

I went. Sure there were major partiers, alcoholics, substance users, etc. But there were also the plenty of hard-working kids who just blew off steam every now and then. It wasn’t the constant alcoholic-weed hazed enviro that people painted it.

The group of kids who were hell-bent on drinking themselves to death would have done that anywhere.

I was accepted to Tulane in the mid-90s.  I was a partier in high school and my dad became VERY worried about Tulane when he saw my enthusiasm and commitment to attending.  He instituted a full-scale push from family, friends, my boyfriend (who he hated!), teachers, everyone to push me towards another school he deemed “safer.”  Well, I finally caved and went to the other school, which had a similar social scene but wasn’t NOLA.  I swear my dad saved me. I had plenty of fun in college, too much really, and definitely had the capacity to go off the edge.  I was surrounded by good people who helped keep me wraith to and allowed me to mature.  I know deep-down that Tulane/NOLA would’ve ruined me.  So I agree that a parent really can be a huge influence/help in these matters.[/quote][/quote]

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