<p>^Thanks for an honest response. Each college is required to report safety/crime statistics in its yearly CLERY report, and publish this information online. There is a high level of disciplinary referrals at Trinity for drinking and drug use. In fact, of the colleges that my son is looking at, Trinity is the most extreme. It makes Boston U. and even UC Santa Barbara – which has a reputation in California as a party school – look like girl scout camps in comparison.</p>
<p>My gut reaction to this is…yuk. I don’t really want to pay around $50,000 per year to have my son live in this kind of environment, and as a outdoorsy, mountain-climbing sort of person, it isn’t what he wants, either. I taught a semester at Stanford University a couple of years ago and met two undergraduates, then seniors, who had become alcoholics in college. It’s not what anyone expects, on the day that the fat envelope arrives, or on the day the family sends the son off to college, full of hopes and good wishes. But it can happen. And according to Stanford’s statistics, even that campus doesn’t come close to Trinity.</p>