<p>I was about to say something, but everyone’s come to the consensus already…</p>
<p>No one had a problem with the drugs part of that? Seriously? How many people came into this thread and made suggestions, like there are some great schools out there to go and get stoned? No problems with that anyone?</p>
<p>And my opinion of LACs just fell dramatically with all the suggestions of them. Do people really look LACs as just places to drop a bunch of money, do drugs all day, skip all your classes, and pretend you’re doing something with your life?</p>
<p>Um, I’m pretty sure that a student intending to do drugs can do so at a university as well as an LAC.</p>
<p>And honestly? While I’m anti-drug, and have never partaken other than one or two experimental times, I’m sure that my kids will experiment a few times in college and it’s really not the end of the world to me.</p>
<p>^The fact that that’s one of the few criteria which were mentioned implies that that’s one of the big focuses of where the OP would want to go to school (had this not been the OP just ■■■■■■■■). For instance, I like tacos. I don’t ask for a list of colleges where I can be assured to get tacos every day in the dining hall.</p>
<p>How about if we let the ■■■■■’s thread die and start another one about whether or not everyone assumes LACs include more drugs than the average college?</p>
<p>Don’t drag everyone through that joke about “being a neo-hippie” who “needs to shop at AE”…</p>
<p>Fwiw, there are studies that indicate drug & alcohol use at my D’s LAC were far below average. Not BYU low, but low. </p>
<p>I think the large D-I football schools and their alcohol-fueled game weekends and the remote LAC’s with little to do for recreation but drink and have sex are probably the worst environments.</p>
<p>Oh but UCLA is very, very close to forests – Westwood Hills indeed has its own forest, Westwood Forest, right next to Royce Hall, not to mention Forest Lawn is very close as well. But if you don’t visit, you can’t see the forest for the trees. </p>
<p>However, camping is only allowed over the hidden tunnel in the quad, in the clearing. Due to environmental concerns, fires are not permitted.</p>
<p>Exactly TheDad. Superb students who smoke pot occasionally are infinitely preferable over adolescent drunkards on their way to becoming nice upstanding republican pillars of closet alcoholism.</p>
<p>I am not a hippie, but my father is. Hash every night, unless he has changed. Also happens to be a theoretical maths prof with degrees in maths and physics from Cal-tech, Princeton, and UCLA.</p>
<p>To those shamelessly attacking me after digging through this account’s older posts like some crazed right-wing attack machine: This account belonged to my preppy republican older sister who is now in college. </p>
<p>She gave this account to help me with the college application process. I have also replaced Emory and added Washington and Lee to appease all the LAC boosters.
xoxo</p>
<p>My List Now Consists of</p>
<p>Duke
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Davidson
Washington and Lee
University Of Virginia</p>
<p>I hope my future hall mates like Bob Marley and the smell of burning incense</p>
<p>Washington & Lee=huge greek life, guys in lilac polos with popped collars, conservative republicans, white, wealthy, very little diversity, entertainment consists of alcohol binges that revolve around the substantial greek life. Strong academics, but the complete opposite of what you initially stated that you were looking for in a college campus.</p>
<p>Have fun trying to fit in as a liberal New York hippie.</p>
Generous of her. But wouldn’t you really rather have your own account, and so disable the “crazed right-wing attack machine”? The search function exists for a good reason - so that posters don’t waste their time on folks who don’t deserve it.</p>
I’ll express no opinion on your sincerity, but you are mischaracterizing your attackers. It seems to me they span the socio-political spectrum. Yurtle looks like your fiercest critic, and she (he?) doesn’t strike me as a Dick Cheney clone.</p>