Scroll to Undergraduate Information for specific data:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/wesleyan-university-1424
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/middlebury-college-3691
By Order
NA: Amherst
There are drugs everywhere in society, how you deal with them is the issue. You are going to find drugs and drug users in every walk of life. It is hard as a parent to accept this but you will find drugs and drug users at every college you care to name.
I don’t know where you’re at on your decision, but I have a child who is a student at Wesleyan. I can assure you that she is not a drug user-she’s on the other end of the spectrum. And she has many many friends, attends parties, and even with an active social life, has never once been pressured into doing drugs, or has really been at all uncomfortable in the sense that she is always around it. Of my kids, this is the one who we call the “reporter”. She tells us everything. And I mean everything. Sometimes we, as her parents, wish she didn’t tell us so much. Ha ha. In any event, if this kid were uncomfortable with the drug scene at Wesleyan, I guarantee you that I would have heard about it by now. She’s not. Again, I think that the personalities ascribed to the various liberal arts colleges in New England tend to be a bit dramatized and overly emphasized. For example, in those circles, you will often hear a lot of people say that Middlebury has the most pronounced “bro” culture. Others say that is found at Bowdoin. Some would guess it’s Williams. I don’t know. We spent time at all of those schools as part of the athletic recruiting process, and we have friends and relatives with students at all of these and other schools. What I’ve taken away from all of those experiences and anecdotes and observations is this: the variety of people who will find fit at a variety of schools is much larger and more flexible than people tend to say or predict when you ask the question. In other words, the reality is a lot more fluid than what you’re going to read here.