<p>Specifically within 6 hours of philadelphia?</p>
<p>any schools that are moderately difficult to go to (1200 SAT average), under 25k room/board/tuition, that are generally party-free. Every single school that has a reo of not being a party school is like 40k a year. Every big state school has a party reputation</p>
<p>I dont care about the ocasional party, but I was up with my brother in Penn State and they drank vodka playing Xbox, I dont want that</p>
<p>Check out Grove City College outside of Pittsburgh. Under 15K including room and board...yes, you read that right. No drinking allowed. If you considered BYU, GC might be perfect for you. <a href="http://www.gcc.edu%5B/url%5D">www.gcc.edu</a> 1200 midrange SAT. Excellent grad school placement.</p>
<p>it might be a helluva lot easier to find schools that have substance free dorms- where there will be a substantial population of people who choose not to drink</p>
<p>I think it's hard to find any school that is completely party free. However, know that pretty much wherever you go you will be able to find a pocket of people like yourself. I went to a large state school and there were certainly plenty of people who went out almost nightly. However, I was not a big drinker or big on the party and/or bar scene. I found that there were enough people there that I could find my niche. I would say that most colleges and universities are that way.</p>
<p>Are you a guy or a girl? Women's colleges are the only secular schools I know of that are very close to party-free (at least in the dorms). Many are either good bargains or give good financial aid.</p>
<p>St. Olaf is "officially dry," carolyn, but to my knowledge there is a fair amount of drinking that goes on, especially as it's in a small town with not a lot to do on weekends. Otherwise, it's still a great school, and there are of course people to hang out with who don't drink and party all the time.</p>
<p>I think you will be making a mistake to choose a "party-free" school. Plenty of people who weren't big parties in high school can have a great time dancing at a frat house on a Saturday night--no alcohol has to be involved. Your likes and dislikes as an over-achieveing high school senior are very, very likely to change by the time you are a 22, 23 year old college senior. You will not leave college the same way you entered it, mentally, physically, or socially. </p>
<p>If you don't want to drink, it's probably not TOO difficult to find a subculture of people who don't want to drink either. And nobody's going to get angry at you if you don't want to have a beer.</p>
<p>But there are schools where 95% of students drink regularly and heavily and the other 5% stay in their dorm rooms and have no social life at all. These are typically smaller schools in isolated locations with long, cold winters.</p>
<p>It's important to someone like habdragon08 to be able to identify such schools before deciding on enrollment.</p>
<p>Maybe among the factors to consider should be workload and level of seriousness of the sudent body. Schools with tons of work and a professional-school focus among the students should be less likely to be 4 years of inebriation and hangovers. </p>
<p>habdragon08, the other thing to consider is urban schools (more free time options) over rural schools.</p>