We looked into this a bit. Our DD already parties some in high school, but wants a college where there's a little more studying on weeknights and partying more on weekends. She's a social kid with many friends in college and did a LOT of overnights at colleges all over the country and talked to a lot of current students. Separately out of curiosity, I looked at online reviews of party/drug life on Unigo (although I can't find the survey results I looked at now . . . did they move them?) and Princeton Review, etc. I didn't share anything I read online with her because I like to keep my crazy to myself, but I'll tell you that the online feedback or ratings on those sites lined up pretty closely with the anecdotal feedback she got from overnights or talking to current students. At colleges she visited that were on the "reefer madness" list or high percentage of "partying every night" ratings, that's exactly what she saw/heard was the norm. At colleges with lower ratings in these areas, there was more of a "we start partying on Thursday" report.

Top party schools in the US
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/top-party-schools/

Also, any school with a large Greek social scene.

It sounds like you're asking for two different things in your subject line and the follow up question.

Greek-centric culture is going to be far easier to discern than drug culture. Your kid can find drugs anywhere at any time if they are so inclined.

Post schools here? Ask for personal exp only.

And yet there’s a range between party schools and not and I want to find out so thanks for that deep deep insight that drugs are real.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid wants to drink or if drugs they will, culture doesn’t matter. By college they should be comfortable saying no to anything they don’t want to do.

This. Your kid will find drugs and drinking wherever they go, including community college.

If your kid wants to drink or if drugs they will, culture doesn’t matter. By college they should be comfortable saying no to anything they don’t want to do.

No, sites like UNIGoO publish results from surveys of each school’s students, about these exact topics.

Where can you find information on whether schools have fraternity/sorority driven culture, alcohol abuse, etc?

Is it strictly anecdotal?