<p>I’m conservative socially (on everything other than gay rights and abortion), and was ok at NYU. I wasn’t straight-edge, but wasn’t far from it either (never touched pot, drank socially but not often). I had a friend freshman year who didn’t drink (not for religious reasons, I think medical?), and nobody gave him any **** about it.</p>
<p>That said, yes there will be some people who try to smoke pot in the dorm (angry girls usually take care of this without RA assistance :D). And there will be some drug addicts, one of my suitemates huffed and snorted all kinds of **** before we (the other 3 of us) got him chucked. But trust me, if you resolved never to do any drugs this is a strengthening experience, not temptation. The rest of the room was clean, and we stayed that way.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends from the Ivies, and I can tell you Penn and Harvard students are a lot more over the top when drinking than NYU is.</p>
<p>Re: Explorations, some people will do it to get priority on a better dorm, but largely they work out from what I’ve heard.</p>