<p>I am looking for colleges for my daughter. I hear a lot of drinking and partying goes on in the colleges in dorms. I am a very conservative mom and would like to see an environment that discourages children from engaging in such activties.
Is partying inevitable in college dorms?
Could you please suggest some schools that would suit my needs?
I would like the girls' dorms to be separate from the boys' dorms.</p>
<p>I am looking for colleges in the East Coast (NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, MA, NY) and my daughter is interested in sciences (may be pre-med).</p>
<p>One place to start is the book “Choosing the Right College” by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The organization’s web site has a lot of information on the subject.</p>
<p>Any particular religious preferences or non-preferences? Are women-only schools OK or preferred? Is it OK if a campus has co-ed dorms, along as single-sex also exist? What kind of tier school is possible? Answer these and I think you’ll get a lot of great suggestions.</p>
<p>I think most campuses are going to have a drinking presence whether they’re liberal or conservative, with the exception of some uber conservative ones like Bob Jones or Brigham Young.</p>
<p>You’re not going to find colleges that don’t have drinking or partying on campus, doesn’t matter how conservative they are.</p>
<p>You can however find schools that have ‘Substance Free Dorms’: they all sign a pledge not to drink or do drugs while in that dorm. However due to space limitations those dorms will probably be co-ed by floor.</p>
<p>From there you would just have to trust your daughter.</p>
<p>Boys and girls do not share the same dorm floor. In Odessa girl’s dorm one floor is for the males. The other 3 floors are for female.</p>
<p>There are specific days and times where members of the opposite sex are allowed on the same floor. There is a lounge area in each dorm that is co-ed 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>This is a Christian school - and the students attend a Chapel twice a week for about an hour. And I believe they take 2 classes - one class called “Encountering the Bible” and I’m not sure what the other one is called, during their stay there.</p>
<p>So - This school may or may not be right for your daughter. It does have some rules that other colleges certainly do not hate.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Do you have religious preferences? Most conservative colleges that have lifestyle rules are religious.
You can look at Grove City which is an independent Christian college, I believe daily chapel is required.
Liberty University, which is Jerry Falwell’s college in Va. There are also some very conserviative Catholic college - i.e. Christendom, Va and Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts, NH.</p>
<p>For your daughter to have a successful college career at one of these more restrictive colleges - it has to be her choice; not yours.</p>
<p>Smaller schools- womens colleges, schools in more urban areas,( more to do), schools with higher average age may have less alcohol use.</p>
<p>Both my daughters took a year off before college as many young people are doing nowdays.</p>
<p>Students who are a little older, are less likely to go crazy as soon as they are away from their parents watchful eye, but I must mention that college students with few exceptions are not children, but adults and young men and women, not boys and girls.
( despite being dependent for aid purposes of course )</p>
<p>Pruneface, Reed College has a pretty conservative curriculum, by which I mean emphasis on the “classics” however they believe that adults should be responsible for their own behavior as long as it does not harm others, and I am getting the impression that the OP would like a college for her daughter who acts as a parent in absentia.</p>
<p>It is also on the opposite coast from where the OP stated she wanted to look.</p>
<p>Are the Christian colleges going to be the best place for a student interested in pre-med? (this is not snarky). The OP is interested in a socially conservative environment, but has not said anything about academics.</p>
<p>A couple of consideration I’ve made as a parent of college students: Is my student preparing for life as an adult in an ideal world that s/he would like to see exist or in the real world with its full range of perspectives and behaviors? And should s/he seek out a campus environment that offers the comfort of being surrounded by peers who are similar to themselves or seek to expand their comfort zones by learning to be themselves regardless of other attitudes aound them? I encouraged my kids to take the real-world approach and the benefits have far outweighed the challenges.</p>
<p>OP, when you say you are “conservative,” what do you mean? Some schools filled with politically conservative students also have a big drinking culture.</p>
<p>Are you looking for a fundamentalist Christian school, like Liberty? A school where there is less drinking because students are focused on academics, like Chicago? A school where students must master a traditional liberal arts curriculum, with many requirements, like St. John’s? A school where most kids go to church, like (I think) St. Olafs? We can help you more if we know more about what you are and are not looking for.</p>
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