<p>Hi all! We had the smoking thread, so I thought it'd be cool (and important) to me to have a list of stone-cold-sober colleges and universities!</p>
<p>You can go to p rincetonrevie w.com to find cool lists as such, but I'm not familiar with the tops schools on theirs lists there (for LEAST drinking, partying, etc). Seems like many of the schools taking top 'honours' at pr.com are not the schools users at CC.com talk about!</p>
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<li>I heard Wellesley is very sober. Whoohoo!</li>
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<p>Not much point in getting drunk and hitting on each other, not that there’s anything wrong with that.</p>
<p>I expect many of the military/navy academies would be stone sober. :)</p>
<p>The one Southern Baptist institution I had any connection with had very strict rules against alcohol, and the students that chose to go there tended to agree with the rules. Never saw the first beer even during greek parties there.</p>
<p>Maybe strictly conservative / religious institutions will have little drinking (Brigham Young, Liberty University, Pensacola, Bob Jones).</p>
<p>BYU for sure.</p>
<p>BYU, The Academies, Wellesley</p>
<p>I’ve heard American U is tough to drink at, is there still a good party scene?</p>
<p>Well, to be fair, Wellesley students tend to go to parties at MIT or Harvard or Babson where there will be lots of drinking. But the campus itself is pretty sober.</p>
<p>Oral Roberts and Grove City are def on that list</p>
<p>With drinking, you can avoid it by residing on areas of campuses with less drinking (ie. the engineering part of a campus.) I go to University of Illinois (Urbana), and there’s a huge difference in atmosphere between the halves of the campus.</p>
<p>i have heard that there American U has plenty of drinking.</p>
<p>thanks cross.</p>
<p>Don’t go to college. JK</p>
<p>Check out college p r o w l e r (the website) they have accurate stats on the party/drinking scene.</p>
<p>Thanks, sirmaximus. I guess I can’t avoid drinkers totally. I will def look into my dorm’s atmosphere when choosing. Except I guess in a small LAC, there’s less of a choice.</p>
<p>Mamaroneck, thanks for acknowledging the smoking thread!
In regards to avoiding alcohol, if you are religiously observant or plan to go into the military, you can go with the suggestions above.
But if you are not, it is going to be hard to find a “stone-cold sober” school in the U.S.
This may sound counter-intuitive, but you might look into very large universities where you are likely to meet all kinds of people, so that you will meet enough people that do not drink. You also can investigate whether colleges have “late-night” programs. These are alcohol-free programs that go late into the night on weekends. For example, universities will bring in improv comedy groups, music groups, salsa or swing dance instructors, etc., to provide really enjoyable alternatives to drinking. Penn State has a prototype of this and this has been a model to many other universities. You might even look into WORKING at the late night program - to get paid, go to the program, and avoid the party scene. Another thing you could look into as an upperclassman is to be an RA at a school with a great RA program with excellent training for this (Penn State comes to mind again). You will end up hanging out with the other RAs who will be friendly, outgoing people who do not drink as they have actual responsibility for their residents and must serve as role models. Good luck!</p>
<p>Samford University is that southern baptist school I think one of the people commented on above?</p>
<p>Hi levirm! Your thread is way more popular than this, for obvious reasons. People probably look at this thread title and think I am a sober alien! Heh.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your suggestions. Definitely a lot of options in there. Gee, its really hard to be religiously observant AND desire to go to a more renowned school. (most of these suggestions, while Im sure are distinctive schools of their own, are not the schoolsmany of us here at CC.com plan on going to)</p>
<p>I heard Penn State University-Park has a willlld drinking scene. Good to know they have alternatives for non-drinkers too!</p>
<p>The large university suggestion makes sense to me, although that is not what Im looking for academically. I also want upclose interactions with the professors. But I guess the priority of going to college is academics and knowing my faculty well for me (and many here on CC.com), so Ill put the drinking scene in the backseat while choosing a college. As long as Im not at the top 10 hardcore liquer colleges, I think Ill survive:)</p>
<p>How about let’s modify this? What are some schools where drinking is not the biggest deal on weekends?</p>
<p>You’re right about Wellesley. The college has super-strict drinking policies, and the town itself is “dry.”</p>