Any students here who can contribute to what social life is like over at AU?
-Side note, will be doing ROTC if that helps anything.
The school has a very developed social scene. While the parties are not on the same level as the big southern universities, we still have parties almost every weekend. During the first semester, frats hold parties very frequently with many frats holding parties on the same night. This decreases during the Spring Semester due to rush; so if you are interested greek life, use the fall semester to make connections!
For those who do not like frat parties, there are other options. There are multiple nightclubs in the DC area that allow in 18 year olds on certain nights, such as the gay nightclub Town or the straight nightclub Ultra.
On the topic of ROTC, I am not too sure. I do know that your social life may be limited by the fact that those in ROTC wake up very early to do runs prior to classes which means that you have to sleep earlier than usual but I am not sure which days that is done so I’d ask to speak to current ROTC students when/if you come to visit. A possible benefit of ROTC is that it is done with other schools in DC so it increases your chances of becoming friends with people from other Universities; aka access to other events at Universities.
If you have any questions, let me know. I’ll be glad to answer them!