<p>What's the story a Marquette? All over the place? Barely a presence (doubt it)?</p>
<p>Might be going there next year and am curious about it. Thanks!</p>
<p>Drinking is common. This is Milwaukee afterall, AND college. You’re going to have drinking at every campus, except for schools like Oral Roberts or Brigham Young.</p>
<p>But, I would definitely say drinking is not dominate. Marquette is not a party school like Madison. There is a crowd for everybody here. If you want to drink, you’ll go to house parties…if you don’t want to drink, Marquette is excellent with providing fun activities (Marquette Late Nite is a weekend night program that offers activieis. They also show relatively recent movies for $2 at Varsity Theater). There are lots of students who drink, don’t drink, or indulge every now and then…it will be easy to find a crowd you like.</p>
<p>Great perspective, Ring. Appreciate an actual student POV on this forum. A lot of parents grinding away here and your perspective is great.</p>
<p>As for drugs, not a problem at all. There is pot here and there, but its very rare and if people are dumb enough to smoke in the dorms they WILL be caught (read any of our department of public safety reports). I haven’t heard of any more hardcore drug abuse, like prescription or things beyond pot.</p>
<p>I have not much from my son about drugs, but I am sure it happens. Drinking at most schools is the bigger problem. Not much drinking in the dorms, but there are plenty of off campus house parties. </p>
<p>Most students are there to study, so during the week it is very quiet.</p>
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<p>Marquette is never going to have a huge student presence on these forums. It’s just not that kind of school. Kids don’t agonize about getting in there or necessarily “dream” about going there. It’s full of normal, happy kids who worry more about their O Chem test and what’s going on with their boyfriends or girlfriends. Some leave the school for any number of reasons; many more stay, adjust, do just fine.
We parents grind away (myself included, of course – or maybe I just like the sound of my own typing?) – but the more I read the new freshmen threads on the Parents’ Forum, the kids struggle or they don’t and it has little to do with all this advance agonizing on our parts.</p>