<p>This is going to sound counter-intuitive, but my D found that when she transfered from a good OOS public where the drinking culture was pervasive and she was totally out of place, to an extremely liberal LAC, she found the culture much more accepting. I know that very lefty schools have a rep for drugs/drinking according to some, and that’s all there, as it is everywhere, but there was also a strong nonjudmental/let-people-be-who-they-are ethos, so that a nondrinker could be totally welcomed in a drinking atmosphere. Also, the drinking that did occurr tended to be more “sit-around-the-table-with-drinks” talking about stuff, rather than “garbage can full of purple lethal mixture” with much puking/peeing in the shrubs. That was a few years ago, but the difference between her two schools was dramatic in terms of attitudes about alcohol.</p>