<p>ar3, oh…ok, I would imagine that the pre-parties before the frat parties, start in the dorms on weekends…</p>
<p>Yes, some do.</p>
<p>mumof2boyz, please let me know how your visit went after you go.</p>
<p>Thanks ar31791, I will. It is supposed to rain while we are there, so hopefully that will keep the partiers inside! HAHA! I think my son may go the CHOICE route as he can still party if he wants to but no one brings it back to the living environment. He does want to have fun and I am sure will do his share of partying, he just does not want it in his dorm room.</p>
<p>He has spoken to some students online as well as two Deans and I think is reassured that it is there if you want it, but you do not have to feel pressured to partake, so he apprears to not be overly concerned about it at this point.</p>
<p>Yup, that’s pretty much how it is. As far as the safest bet for quiet dorms, it would probably be in CHOICE.</p>
<p>That might not be true. People in the dorms will be out at night and not making noise but I have a friend in subfree(CHOICE) and he says a lot of the kids stay up till 2am playing Risk.</p>
<p>Negotiator, LOL! Are you serious?!?</p>
<p>ar31 and negotiator, is a negative label cast on the kids that dorm in the substance free dorms?</p>
<p>Very good question JohnAdams - Is there a stigma associated with the kids who reside in the CHOICE dorm??? Does anyone attending Lehigh have an opinion about that?</p>
<p>Of course people say things. Nothing bad though. Just the typical things, you know? I’ve never really heard a lot of people talking negatively about it though. Most kids don’t care where other people live.</p>
<p>I’m very dated, since I graduated in 1975. From what I’ve heard in all the years since, you can find just about any scene if you look for it. Lehigh has had a “big drinking” reputation for at least 40 years; it began before the school went co-ed, when it was a short drive to NJ and NY where legal drinking age was 18. Over the years the University has gone from turning a blind eye to drinking to banning alcohol completely on campus. I was told as a freshman that no one from the U would ever come into my dorm room; evidently that’s no longer the case.</p>
<p>My freshman year I lived in Richards House. We had some drinkers, some non, and evidently one guy who (I was told years later) was dealing drugs out of his room. The biggest problem I had was that half the floor were athletes who stayed up late making noise. Second semester was better because most of them pledged fraternities that had mandatory study hours for their pledges.</p>
<p>My final three years I lived in McConn House. We had some drinkers, some non, one guy who was boinking his GF 24/7, and two roommates who smoked every night – one nearly flunked out and the other was the only guy I knew who thought engineering school was easy; he’s now a professor (not at Lehigh). Biggest problem I can think of is that we had one guy (out of 44) in the house who smoked cigarettes non-stop (his nickname was Stack, as in Smokestack), and the whole place reeked. But virtually everyone there was serious about his studies, so there were no midnight parties and I can’t say I was ever prevented from doing my schoolwork.</p>
<p>No one ever forced me to drink anything, and no one ever forced me to smoke anything. I think the biggest *unavoidable *problem you’ll ever have is if you and your roommate are incompatible (my problem freshman year) in terms of hours and schedule, or if one of you is a drinker/drugee and the other isn’t, or if one of you has a frequent relationship with a SO and the other doesn’t. You won’t know until the school year begins. Luckily, most schools do what they can to match up compatible roommates these days.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you. Don’t forget to torture your parents with the hills on Parents’ Weekend.</p>
<p>Thanks jdalu75 for bringing back the college memories!! ;0
I’m hoping to hear a good report from mumof2boyz too!</p>
<p>Just returned from Lehigh - walked around campus around 8-9 pm - saw kids, mostly in small groups, chatting and walking from dining halls back to dorms and to the library and the gym etc. No drunken rowdies to be found! We drove up the road the frats are on - and all was quiet! I suspect most of the partying is reserved for weekends just as I suspected.</p>
<p>mumo, that is what I figured also</p>
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<p>bumping this for our current posters~</p>
<p>UPDATE FOR THIS YEAR’S APPLICANTS:</p>
<p>My son had real concerns as well, he is a very happy Lehigh freshman right now! He is not a social outcast and in fact loves his room mate, the kids on his floor and kids in his major. He was very nervous about it at first, so selected CHOICE housing in which you sign a contract that you will not come back to the dorm drunk and will not drink in the dorm. That way he does not have to deal with it all the time, just when he decides to.</p>
<p>He does not feel it is any more a problem at Lehigh than at any other campuses. He hears the same thing from all of his friends. College life, for some, is just one big party.</p>
<p>There is alot of partying on the 'hill", but there are also many activities going on at the main campus for those who do not feel like being S—faced all the time.</p>
<p>His major is very demanding, so most of his friends party only once in a while. </p>
<p>My recommendation is that you make sure you spend time on campus, daytime and night time - drive up on the hill Thursday - Saturday night and see what you think. I did and my son is now attending Lehigh!</p>
<p>if you drink too much and start to fall behind you are screwed. i had to learn this the hard way.</p>
<p>the only good thing about it is that you learn your own limitations</p>
<p>do the loud musics of parties and drunkards in the dorms really disturb in studying??? I just applied my ED to Lehigh and then read these posts…
I’m kinda afraid coz i don’t drink and m kinda geek focused in my Major, and i’m very hopeful to get accepted.</p>
<p>do the loud musics of parties and drunkards in the dorms really disturb in studying???</p>
<p>trinitian, apply to the CHOICE housing and you reduce any type of problem of this type:</p>
<p>[Lehigh</a> University: Housing: Residence Halls: A-Z Types of Housing: CHOICE - First-Year Students](<a href=“http://www4.lehigh.edu/housing/residencehalls/aztypes/choicefys.aspx]Lehigh”>http://www4.lehigh.edu/housing/residencehalls/aztypes/choicefys.aspx)</p>
<p>currently there are about 5 floors in the Dravo dorm just for CHOICE freshmen. It seems to be a very popular type of housing.</p>
<p>My son is a freshman and no, the parties are on the hill where the frats are or off campus. You can study in the dorms, but most go to the library or the new STEPS building to study.<br>
You may want to conside CHOICE housing. My son is in it and loves it - they sign a contract not to party in the dorm or come back intoxicated. He loves the kids, very well rounded, fun, just serious about their majors - mostly engineering as it is a tough major there. You can PM me if you have any questions about CHOICE. The CHOICE RA’s (Gryphons) get a large budget and can do lots of stuff with their floor so they have a lot of fun. He has gone to the hill, but finds getting S—faced every weekend kind of boring and impossible with his workload.</p>
<p>^^ that sounds relieving!!!</p>