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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious what people specifically think there is to do in a large city for 18-22-year-olds that doesn't involve drinking and that wouldn't be available to their peers at a campus in a smaller town.[/quote]

bowling, movie theater, coffee houses, hanging out in town[/quote]

You can do any of these things in a small town, as well.[/quote]

Not at the SLAC's we looked at.  They are in the boonies.  The small town would be a strip of shops.

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NP. DD also looking at SLACs. Absolutely true that many are in the boonies but (a) some are within 30 minutes of cities (and often run shuttles to and from campus) and (b) those really out in the sticks are places where you should be asking: What do students do to make their own fun? DD has zero interest in a party scene where party means drinking etc. but she was interested to realized that at some small, isolated colleges, there were a lot of unique clubs, a LOT of student theater (not affiliated with drama departments, but independent), music groups, etc.

I do agree that in some places students can't even go into a small town for a movie or decent coffee house and there's nothing to hang out in town [i]for[/i] -- that was the case at one academically great but very isolated SLAC we toured. And for my own DD it was just a bit too isolated despite an active student body scheduling lots of weekend activities.[/quote]

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