<p>My daughter is pre-med and seriously looked at Colorado College but ultimately decided it wasn’t a good place to do pre-med or any hard science. Maybe some people can do it, but she really didn’t relish the idea of doing Organic Chem in 3.5 weeks, even if that was her only class. Her thinking was that if you get sick or anything goes wrong during that period, it’s going to be very difficult to recover in a class like that. Their one-class-at-a-time sounds great for the humanities, not so much for the sciences.</p>
<p>Hamilton’s reputation as a drinking school is a remnant of their days of having Greek houses which have been shut down for years. They don’t even make Princeton Review’s list of hard drinking schools anymore and my daughter reports you can drink as much or little as you want. There are plenty of non-drinking students and my daughter is pretty controlled about it and doesn’t care much for the party and puke crowd, so she avoided the obvious party places like Colgate or Union. There’s a preppy element at just about every LAC, not sure it’s any different at Hamilton than anyplace else. No reports from D of it being an issue.</p>