<p>Can you please just rank these schools from biggest party atmosphere to smallest party atmosphere? I'm as straight-edge as it gets, and I won't be able to survive at a college where a lot of kids drinks and do drugs.</p>
<p>Colleges I'm applying to:
Penn
Harvard
Cornell
JHU
NYU (NYC and Abu Dhabi site)
Lafayette
Lehigh
PennState
Rutgers</p>
<p>Yeah, you will survive. I go to one of the biggest party schools in the country. I don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t party and I have a great group of friends and a good social life. Get over the stereotype that party school = ALL people party. Every school has a group of people that party and don’t. You’ll find your niche no matter where you go.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m not familiar enough with those schools to rank them.</p>
<p>As a starting point, you might check the hours of the main library. If the library closes down at 5 pm on a Friday and Saturday, it is more likely to be a partying school. If they stay open late on weekend nights and and open up early on a Sunday morning, it is more likely to be full of very serious students.</p>
<p>All of those will have a sizeable party culture, but you don’t have to participate by any means.</p>
<p>One possible exception could be NYU Abu Dhabi? I don’t know though, that’s just me guessing lol.</p>
<p>Of course, the goal is to find a non-partying crowd where you are comfortable, which you can find at most colleges.</p>
<p>Out of your list, I would expect Johns Hopkins to have the highest percentage of very serious non-partying students. I’m told Lafayette has been really trying to crack down on drinking and parties. </p>
<p>Almost every college has tried to cut down on binge drinking, which certainly makes sense. </p>
<p>Some colleges have become very strict for on-campus housing, but that just makes everyone want to move off-campus as soon as they can.</p>
<p>Out of that list, I would expect Penn State and Lehigh to have the highest percentage of heavy drinkers.</p>
<p>I would avoid Rutgers, huge party school and Penn State is notorious for partying if it is main campus.</p>
<p>I would say the only school on the list that I would be semi-surprised to find a sizeable party culture at would be JHU. Don’t know anything about NYU Abu Dhabi, however.</p>
<p>If youre going to the main campus of penn state, i would avoid it. Also, rutgers is big on partying especially during rutgersfest.</p>
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<p>Quantum mechanics will do that to you ;)</p>
<p>That’s relieving to know JHU isn’t a big party school. That’s probably my top choice for colleges that I actually have a shot at getting into…</p>
<p>Many people drink, and many people don’t drink. It is hard to understand when you’re not in college, but you will see that picking a school off whether it is a party school or not will not make a big difference. My university has been reviewed as not a party school. That does not mean it is hard to find a party and that people don’t walk around trashed.</p>
<p>Pick a school with academic, student body, activities, and etc. that you are interested in. Not whether it is labeled a party school or not.</p>
<p>People party at pretty much every school. Go to a super religious school if you want to get away from it that badly, or just don’t go to the parties at the school you actually want to go to.</p>
<p>JHU and NYU are your best schools for the least amount of partying. I go to Penn State UP and it’s really not that bad. It also depends on the area you are living in. I don’t party at all and it’s not like the movies where you walk around and see a huge party down the street with blaring music and drunk people walking around everywhere. All the people i’ve met here so far are not partiers. I’ve even met a couple of frat guys who don’t party and are really into succeeding and going to top notch graduate schools. Really, it’s not that bad.</p>
<p>if you don’t try to party it’s not like the parties are going to creep up on you. you get what you look for, basically.</p>
<p>I don’t think partying is that big of a deal. I’ve been to some, did stuff, big deal. I found out it’s not my thing, but I don’t hate it. If it gets in your way of studies, then it is a big deal. But parties can be avoided for sure at any type of school.</p>
<p>I call ******** on NYU not being a party school. My ex went there and they always threw parties for people who were DTF(lol), that’s how I found out I was being cheated on 
OH and the commuters by far party more .</p>