<p>W&L is (perhaps unfairly) always pinned as a huge drinking school; however, i have never heard any reference to drug use at W&L. out of curiousity, how big is the drug scene there? obviously it exists to some degree, but is it common? is there much drug use in the fraternities/ sororities there? i hope there is not and that my image of W&L as a drinking-only school is true, but i want the honest truth, not some "well, it exists if you want it to" kind of answer.</p>
<p>As you said, obviously it exists - college is college - as for how big it is, I'm not really sure. I try to stay as far from it as possible and as I don't really have much experience with fraternities outside of my own, I probably can't answer this very well.</p>
<p>I can answer this one for you-- is that a good thing? haha</p>
<p>Well first, W&L's reputation as a huge drinking school is quite fair... I thought it might be unfair, too, until I got here. Frankly, I was surprised by the amount of hard drugs (mostly coke and shrooms) that are used here. Definitely more than my public high school. Some fraternities definitely have the stigma of having the most drug use, and you'll sort of feel that out in the first two weeks of being here. There isn't really a lot of pot smoking compared to what I would think of most colleges-- coke might actually be more prevalent. The bottom line is that you'll find cocaine at any wealthy elite school such as W&L. It's weird, though, becuase the kids who did coke in HS were not good students and would have never gotten into a school like W&L in the first place.</p>
<p>If I had to give a definite percentage of habitual coke users, I'd say somewhere between 5 and 10 %, and % of people who will have tried it before they graduate around 20%. Pretty rough estimates, though. It's kept really hush hush-- and it really does "exist if you want it to." You pretty much have to seek it out. I've only seen it a couple times (never done it-- terrible stuff).</p>
<p>I hope this answers your question...</p>