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[quote=Anonymous]I think the drinking perception of Tulane is totally overblown.  I graduated from Tulane in 2002 so obviously some of my advice is dated but my understanding is that it has gotten harder to get into (eg higher SATs required every year) so if anything more prestigious than when I went there.  My best friend went to BU and obviously this is anecdote but he visited me freshman year with a bunch of his friends and they went absolutely wild while here- because they were [I]visiting[/I] and not living here.  My entire group of friends did the French Quarter thing a few times freshman year and then were basically over it- my friends who visited all wanted to do only the French Quarter the entire Mardi Gras and the kids who went to Tulane just wanted to do parades.

We had decent access to bars (many you could get in at 18) so our exposure to drinking was more gradual/ European rather than the access at other schools where the only access is at frat parties, which I think just encourages more binge drinking.  We would easily go to a bar and have a few drinks and go home because we could do it more often.  When I visited friends at other schools I felt like we only did parties and I was astounded by all the bungeeing drinking.

Anyway, I think NOLA is a fabulous city to go to school and the Tulane campus is gorgeous.  I think prestige-wise the schools are pretty comparable but I personally liked having a school with a campus- obviously many other people make other decisions.  But I think that people saying that NOLA should be avoided because of drinking culture are very mistaken- there is access to alcohol at all colleges and having more city-wide access to it is not necessarily a hindrance.

I have many successful friends from Tulane- doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs.  [/quote]

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