<p>^ Many of the religious people that go there don’t drink… however than are many religious parents that send their kids to these schools that have no interest in not drinking… but its the only school their religious parents will pay for (and these kids are much more numerous at Christian colleges than one would think).</p>
<p>I would agree if we were talking about religious schools like Georgetown, Notre Dame, etc, but like… brigham young?</p>
<p>^ There are obviously extremes at both ends… BYU is one extreme (although there is an underground drinking culture according to two of my friends that go there).</p>
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<p>Hopefully you aren’t saying that schools such as Notre Dame & Georgetown do not have large drinking cultures, please?</p>
<p>No, the opposite.</p>
<p>In all of the public schools I have experienced the grand majority of the the student population drinks.</p>
<p>At a Catholic school or a religious University I would assume that the majority would not drink or drink very little.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t choose a College based solely on whether or not the majority of students drink(There are so much other important factors) but if it got to the point in which 99% of your classmates didn’t talk about anything else outside of getting smashed over every weekend then it would be a good idea to consider transferring(Considering you are the type of person who wouldn’t be getting smashed every weekend; which may or may not change).</p>
<p>To the helpful comments: yeah, seems like Brigham Young U keeps coming up. Except… I’ve never heard of it (I’m sure it is a distinctive school in its own…).
Can helpful commenters tell me anything about wellness housing? Collegeboard.com says every college (that I looked up) has one. </p>
<p>To the unhelpful comments. Well.
I know exactly why I am against drinking, but I’m not going to evangelise to you.
To the irrelevant comments. Well well.</p>
<p>Different schools have different levels of strictness with regard to the adherence to “substance free” rules in wellness housing. I know at my school it is written that you can’t even have posters or movies depicting anything drug or alcohol related, but I have no idea to what degree it is enforced, if at all. At the school I was originally planning on attending, I had been told that a lot of the people in substance free were addicts trying to stay clean or remarkably hyper conservative people, neither of which particularly appealed to me. You’d have to research specific schools, and go beyond just what they tell you in the brochure, to find out whether or not wellness housing will make any difference.</p>
<p>Brigham Young is, to my knowledge, extremely well known in the mormon community. It is probably the most conservative school I have ever heard of. I’m not even sure if women are allowed to wear pants, I know they have a very strict code about most things including dress and behavior. But that’s kind of what you’re looking at if you are looking for alcohol to be a “non-issue.” Though, in my opinion, alcohol is darn near a non-issue at my school because I almost never have to encounter it-- despite the fact that there is a large drinking culture here. You may be better off leaving alcohol culture as a secondary criteria-- pick schools you like first, then find out whether or not their alcohol situation is something you can coexist with.</p>
<p>mamaroneck, you misunderstand what we are saying. I do not drink. I have no desire to drink. I live in a campus that has a lot of drinking. The point is, don’t base your college decision around a wet or dry campus. </p>
<p>Even the “irrelevant” comments do have some relevance… it just may not be what you want to hear.</p>
<p>how about Grove City college or Liberty university? two academically strong Christian colleges where students are pretty straight edge (I have two friends in GCC - they say there’s definitely some drinking there, but it’s a minority, as opposed to the average college where most students do drink, at least socially). Brigham Young and Bob Jones are examples of even more religious colleges which regulate student behavior very strictly and the students are generally pretty religious. Bob Jones is kind of extreme, especially their past…a lot of people don’t take it seriously as a university. BYU might not appeal to you if you’re not mormon. </p>
<p>Grove City/Liberty are better options if you’re not too religious but looking for a straight-edge type of college experience.</p>
<p>If you want to get converted, go to Brigham Young.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, they don’t drink there either.</p>
<p>what the devil is wellness housing? You mean substance-free floors? I’ve been a student at Santa Clara University and will be one at University of Maryland, College Park and on neither one was there a “request substance free-flooring” thing for the housing application.</p>
<p>Oh okay! Yah I was about to say, ND is pretty wild from all accounts.</p>
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Off topic but you must not be into college football then. They are always in the top 25 (though probably highly overrated).</p>
<p>“how about Grove City college or Liberty university? two academically strong Christian colleges where students are pretty straight edge”</p>
<p>LOL. Liberty is academically strong??? You have got to be kidding.</p>
<p>mamaroneck, would you be okay being around students who drink and you would just choose not to participate? (Assuming the students respect your beliefs and do not pressure you to drink) Even though most state schools have a prevalent drinking culture, they are also usually diverse and large, meaning you will be able to find non-drinkers like yourself. </p>
<p>Most schools sponsor non-drinking events on friday or saturday nights, and you could become involved with the organization that sets those events up, which would probably include non-drinkers like yourself.</p>
<p>I think you should be fine where ever you go, as long as the other students don’t pressure you to drink (which, unfortunately, happens at a lot of schools).</p>
<p>I’ve also heard that Wheaton College has a strict no-drinking policy (but I could be wrong).</p>
<p>I would guess places like BYU and Oral Roberts would have pretty low levels of kids drinking.</p>
<p>Wheaton College. IL</p>
<p>my friend at BYU has even drank several times, and its known for being one of the most dry campuses</p>
<p>You should refer to Princeton Review for dry colleges, but as mentioned earlier there are drinking and non-drinking societies in most colleges.</p>