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I don’t know if partiers are actually a minority here, but that scene is not hard to find at all. During your first year though, it really depends on what dorm you end up in. Max P, South, and BJ have large contingents of partiers. Smaller off-campus housing tends not to cater as much to that. If that’s a big concern for you, I would put down your enrollment deposit as soon as possible (if you’re accepted obviously). Those dorms tend to fill up fast, especially with Pierce being torn down and the college over-enrolling for a few years now.
Like LearningLover said, you wouldn’t necessarily have to take chem. All science, math, and foreign language requirements you can potentially bypass through AP credit. Your sciences don’t even have to be that rigorous; you could take global warming instead of chem, or you could take metabolism & exercise instead of biology. There’s really only about 9 classes that you absolutely can’t place out of/take a dumbed-down version of, and they’re all humanities-oriented.</p>