<p>My daughter was pretty interested in Rollins until a family friend indicated that her daughter transferred out of Rollins due to so many girls there being cocaine users. My daughter's interest then went to zero. I have a NO idea if this is true or just an excuse by a student who was unhappy there for other reasons or unsuccessful. Does anybody else have a view as to whether this allegation has any substance to it? Let me make clear. I have NO personal knowledge as to whether this allegation is true. I am hoping others more familiar with the school can tell me whether it has some truth to it or not. Thanks.</p>
<p>I have not had any personal experience so far with any cocaine users in my first two months here at Rollins. There are some frats and sororities that I have heard through the grapevine have coke users in them, but I haven't heard too much about it since being here. I kind of had the same fear coming here about cocaine, but luckily I haven't seen/heard anything of it.</p>
<p>S is a freshman at Rollins, who was so concerned about the cocaine rumor that when he was interviewed for a merit scholarship there, he asked an administrator about whether lots of students used coke. The administrator said that there are lots of students who drink (something that the administration has been doing its best to curb by creating lots of interesting ways for student to connect with each other without alcohol being the lubricant), but the administrator denied there's a heavy coke problem.</p>
<p>S's experience thus far seems to support what the administrator said. S (who is not a partier) says there definitely are students who drink a lot, but he hasn't mentioned anything about rampant use of drugs like cocaine. </p>
<p>There also is a solid group of students who aren't into partying, but are into things like community service and participating in the various interesting ECs and other things that occur on campus and nearby. The fact that Rollins has been expanding its merit scholarship programs to attract more serious students seems to be making a big difference on campus. A student who graduated magna cum laude last spring told me that an extremely large number of students in his class flunked out due mainly to partying. </p>
<p>I may be remembering this inorrectly, but it seems he told me that about 30% of his class didn't graduate. However, he said that each successive class has been more serious about academics.</p>
<p>My advice is that your D should check out Rollins in person and see what she thinks of the students.</p>
<p>If you investigate the Campus ******* book for Rollins College, you will read they have found from their research at Rollins (they take a large random sampling of interviews at each school they make a book concerning) that half the student body is involved in some sort of recreational drug use and they state specifically there is a cocaine problem. We live in an affluent area in Florida and cocaine is a major problem here in schools where the kids have more money than they need. Maybe a large portion of the students at Rollins would be in that demographic. Universities don't always tell you up front what the true situation is on their campus, whether it is crime, drugs, of whatever. If you check their website for your answers they are many times buried so deep, only the very computer savvy will access them. Campus ******* started their series of investigations/books concerning colleges and universities for just that reason, so that prospective students and their parents could make sound informed decisions concerning their choice of schools.</p>
<p>I've never done coke but know a few people here that have. Just like any other college (for the most part) in America, if you really want it, you can find it. Kids don't just run around with powdery noses acting ridiculous... I know who a few of the dealers are and I do my part to keep my distance. </p>
<p>And don't think the higher level kids (students on half to full academic scholarships) don't have their fun... you'd be fooling yourself.</p>