<p>My daughter’s recent experience at Yale echoes JHS’ wifes’ pretty closely. She was not a drinker or partier, had intense social groups based around ECs, some of her closest friends and roommates were drinkers, some were not.</p>
<p>That said, there definitely was a pre-gaming, frat-party/ bar /club /Toad’s scene that she didn’t participate in at all. She did not enjoy having that around her and in her face (and having it be the public face of Yale, in the sense that columnists for the YDN, for example, mostly write as if their alcohol-awash experience is universally shared), but there was lots more to her time at Yale than that.</p>