UChicago Social Life (current students read)

<p>We don’t know since we don’t go to those schools.</p>

<p>I can compare with Dartmouth, since I know the party scene there pretty well. We have fewer frats with less campus involvement. The frats at Chicago are much cleaner and better cared for than those at Dartmouth. At Dartmouth you can go to any frat on a Friday night. Here you only go to frats if there are specified parties. There will be at least one frat party basically every Friday and Saturday. We have more parties in housing, particularly in Shoreland, since there are no rules against alcohol, regardless of age, in private rooms. There are more places to party at Dartmouth more days of the week. At Chicago you can go to a frat or other major party on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Outside of those days, people at Chicago drink in small groups in private rooms. At Dartmouth, frats are all you have, beer pong is all you play, and Keystone Light is all you drink. At Chicago there are a lot of entertainment options (that include partying and non-drinking activities), few drinking games, and generally better quality alcohol (sometimes Keystone-ish beer at frats, otherwise vodka, rum, better beer, punches, etc.). At Dartmouth you will see almost everyone on campus at the frats; here you will tend to see the same people and groups of friends at parties. At Dartmouth there’s a lot more extreme drinking with people throwing up in trashcans and continuing to drink. People here definitely get sick from drinking sometimes, but it’s not every time, and they’ve usually stopped drinking by that point in the night, anyway.</p>