Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 18:15     Subject: Re:Good college for non partier child
Is Pitt a big party school?
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 11:59     Subject: Re:Good college for non partier child
Go to YouTube and search for "I'm Shmacked". Avoid those schools that are featured in their videos.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 11:56     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stop trying to insulate your students. It actually stunts them socially. Most kids find “their people” rather quickly in all different college environments. Have faith in them as adults.


So you'll send your city kid to the rural school in the heartland, right? And your conservative kid to a bastion of liberality?

Of course. Who wouldn’t if that is where they want to go? Party schools, Greek Life those are easy to avoid. One person’s party school is another persons convent. Loosen up.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 23:16     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:Stop trying to insulate your students. It actually stunts them socially. Most kids find “their people” rather quickly in all different college environments. Have faith in them as adults.


So you'll send your city kid to the rural school in the heartland, right? And your conservative kid to a bastion of liberality?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 23:14     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:To give you an example, on UNIGO, their alcohol question has four response options. Here are some EXAMPLES of how kids at different schools respond:

Elon 52% say "There is some drinking going on every night" (which is their most pro-alcohol option)
That number is 62% at Dartmouth
At Mount Holyoke it is 11%
And at St. Olaf's it is 4%

My point is not to single out these schools, it is to encourage OP to look up the schools that seem to match her child on other qualities, and see where it stands with regard to the popularity of alcohol.


Yes, I thought those answers were enlightening! Of the schools DD was considering, here are some where reviewers listed relatively less drug or alcohol use:

Allegheny
Earlham
Haverford
Kalamazoo
Lawrence
Macalester
Rice
Wooster
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 22:50     Subject: Good college for non partier child
NOT U Miami unless they are offered a merit scholarship- then it is excellent and they will be rewarded by so many advisors and options it is hard to match
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 14:53     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:Lots of people are going to suggest places like Grinnell, Carleton, Swarthmore, Macalester, Haverford, etc: small colleges that attract bookish kids.

Don't forget places like Michigan, Wisconsin, UNC, Berkeley and UCLA. Yes there are dozens of parties every weekend at big state schools. There also are thousands of students who don't go to them.


Excellent point, and I can vouch for the bolded. Drinking every night would’ve interfered with our GPAs (not every athlete was a football or basketball player with fake courses!).

Bigger school means more opportunity to find your “people,” even if your people aren’t big partiers.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 13:53     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Stop trying to insulate your students. It actually stunts them socially. Most kids find “their people” rather quickly in all different college environments. Have faith in them as adults.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 13:34     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Lots of people are going to suggest places like Grinnell, Carleton, Swarthmore, Macalester, Haverford, etc: small colleges that attract bookish kids.

Don't forget places like Michigan, Wisconsin, UNC, Berkeley and UCLA. Yes there are dozens of parties every weekend at big state schools. There also are thousands of students who don't go to them.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 11:02     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:To give you an example, on UNIGO, their alcohol question has four response options. Here are some EXAMPLES of how kids at different schools respond:

Elon 52% say "There is some drinking going on every night" (which is their most pro-alcohol option)
That number is 62% at Dartmouth
At Mount Holyoke it is 11%
And at St. Olaf's it is 4%

My point is not to single out these schools, it is to encourage OP to look up the schools that seem to match her child on other qualities, and see where it stands with regard to the popularity of alcohol.


When I was looking at colleges, I stayed overnight with the daughter of some family friends. She and her roommates were incredibly sweet and very nice to me, but one of them said, "We're not really a party school. There are no parties on Sundays or Thursdays."

I didn't apply there and ended up someplace that had parties on Saturdays. They didn't start until 10 and the beer ran out by 11.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 10:51     Subject: Re:Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:WVU. Gotta start sometime.


Ha!
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 10:40     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:My kid's school, a SLAC in the middle of nowhere, shows 8% for that option.

So you see, the variation is wide.


What school?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 10:29     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Anonymous wrote:Skidmore. Bryn Mawr. Mount Holyoke. Maybe Fordham. Emerson. Some of the smaller liberal artsy places in the northeast. I would look for schools with no greek life and no major sports teams.


ALso, Bard, Northeastern...
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 10:25     Subject: Good college for non partier child
Skidmore. Bryn Mawr. Mount Holyoke. Maybe Fordham. Emerson. Some of the smaller liberal artsy places in the northeast. I would look for schools with no greek life and no major sports teams.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2021 10:21     Subject: Good college for non partier child
They also feature similar data on drug use.