<p>Just wondering - What's the drinking scene like at Penn? Is the alcohol policy lenient? Is it easy to get hard liquor on and off campus?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Whether you get written up for alcohol depends on </p>
<p>a) how stupid (or not) you are
b) your RA</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you can't get liquor on campus (as in buy it) but buying it near philly?... piece of cake and a lot of people have fakes so it's a moot point. These hold true at just about any university.</p>
<p>muy mojado</p>
<p>Alcohol policy is VERY lenient. The worst that might happen is that the RA will take your alcohol. Unless you get written up many times, nothing happens.</p>
<p>Getting liquor, on the other hand, is harder because it's all sold in state stores, where fakes don't work as well as in bars or restaurants. Once you do have liquor though, the BYO's don't care how old you are.</p>
<p>If you go out, lots of drinking. Blacking out is popular. RAs will rarely write anyone up. You'd have to be written up over and over again to actually get in trouble There's a policy called medical amnesty, which means that if someone needs to be taken to the hospital for anything related to drinking they can't get in trouble and neither can the people they're with. Getting alcohol is also ridiculously easy. Almost all of the bars near campus accept terrible fakes, a lot downtown do, and there's a liquor store a short cab ride away that does as well.</p>
<p>thanks! </p>
<p>a follow up question: what about getting alcohol in parties? do they only serve beer or other stuff too?</p>
<p>"Blacking out is popular."</p>
<p>Wow. Proof that stupidity is rife even in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call it stupid. I'm just stating what I've seen. People at Penn take everything to the extreme- work hard, play hard.</p>
<p>There's one thing that interferes with the drinking scence that I notice and that's the ridiculous policy PA has about not selling liquor and beer in the same stores. If you wanna buy a 6 pack of an imported beer, you will probably pay $3, $4 more than in most other places (in Jersey a 6 pk of imported beer costs no more than $8). Also the stores that sell alcohol close too early (9:30) and you can't get alcohol on Sunday's, which is only sometimes problematic.</p>
<p>"I wouldn't call it stupid. " </p>
<p>I would :) </p>
<p>"a follow up question: what about getting alcohol in parties? do they only serve beer or other stuff too?"</p>
<p>Same question. Is Penn a Beer school like Colby College or a Hard school like MIT.</p>
<p>Penn is somewhere in between. If you go to a fraternity, there will always be beer, sometimes hard liquor. At house parties, it's the same, but there is usually more liquor. There's something for everyone!.</p>
<p>the one advantage of the state stores is that hard liquor is oftentimes cheaper than in other places, which is actually somewhat strange given that they have a monopoly. However, I've seen the liquor sections of supermarkets in jersey asking for as much as $10-$20 more per bottle for good liquor, which is a HUGE difference even if you're a scotch snob like me and drop a lot down per bottle.</p>
<p>^^Chivas, Dewars or JWBlack?</p>
<p>I'd just stick with good ol' vodka. Stolichnaya (sp?) is good.</p>
<p>blends?!? are you serious?</p>