<p>Youdon’tsay – i just reread your post #4 and noticed the comment re: Halloween and partying. Since that post, D has been to two more fly-ins and her experiences in the party arena have definitely been eye-opening. Her first program at Bowdoin was a sub free weekend on campus so it was very calm and civilized with an occasional stoned kid being funny. At Williams there was a little more drinking and she skipped the second night party because it was more craziness than she wanted. Her hosts were non drinkers for both those visits. But she just got back from Amherst on Monday and that was a different scene. Two HS kids who were there on the fly-in got so drunk one was hospitalized via ER admission and the other was sent home. Her host got home at 4 AM pretty tipsy (OK drunk) and then a drunk guy wandered into their room and just stood there until his drunk friends came to get him (“buddy this isn’t your room”). There was more typical college drinking stuff which of course is not typical for the HS kids who are on these visits! So all that is to to say that whatever Halloween shenanigans are happening at Carleton won’t be shocking after last weekend at Amherst! D liked Amherst a lot but came home pretty sure she’s going to request sub free housing wherever she ends up - for the quiet and uninterrupted sleep if nothing else.</p>