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The Top 10 Straight-Edge Schools

First Posted: 09/20/11 04:00 PM ET   Updated: 11/20/11 05:12 AM ET

Do you like milk? Do you prefer bowling to grinding? Have you ever played solitaire online instead of doing a keg stand? You are not alone!

College information site Unigo recently rated the top 10 straight-edge schools in the country. Check out a slide show of the schools below. Is your school straight-edge? Let us know in the comments section!

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Brigham Young University is known first and foremost for its religious affiliation (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in this case). The students at Brigham Young tend to appreciate the strict, conservative policies on campus that comes with that affiliation. As one freshman says, "People say you are in a bubble while attending here because you don't have to deal with people drinking, smoking, and doing other things like that. I appreciate this about BYU because I was able to be surrounded by better people more often and I could focus more on my homework than having to worry other things that aren't worth my time." For BYU students who do enjoy the occasional night out, a little extra effort is required, as Rachel explains: "Sometimes you have to really search for somewhere to go on a Friday night. There are not as many parties because we do not drink here."
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Do you like milk? Do you prefer bowling to grinding? Have you ever played solitaire online instead of doing a keg stand? You are not alone! College information site Unigo recently rated the top...
Do you like milk? Do you prefer bowling to grinding? Have you ever played solitaire online instead of doing a keg stand? You are not alone! College information site Unigo recently rated the top...
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Megandale
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04:10 PM on 09/30/2011
I went to Notre Dame and there are a TON of partying and drinking! Yes, there are chapels, nuns and priests...but that in no way hindered people from partying.
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Ryan Flaherty
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08:28 PM on 09/22/2011
99% of the Straight Edge kids I know, including myself, are atheists that attended public colleges if they went to school at all. Picture in your mind tattooed, gauged-eared, hoodie wearing youths whose motto is just as likely to be "GOD FREE" as "DRUG FREE" and then picture them attending "College of the Holy Cross."

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diahni
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11:46 PM on 09/21/2011
Yep, Smith is not a party school.
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Nate35
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05:24 PM on 09/21/2011
I'm surprised by the inclusion of Holy Cross, only because there being non-Irish qualifies you as a minority and there's not much to do in Worcester besides drink as much as possible.
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Geia mas
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02:04 PM on 09/21/2011
Ha! As a recent Haverford graduate I can say that I had a pretty wild time there. It's all what you make of it. We are not a dry campus and have a really reasonable and sensible alchohol policy that many school are trying to emulate. Plus, I bet you've never been around during Haverfest.
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Kat Chiong
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01:06 PM on 09/21/2011
are you kidding me?

CBS did a special about how crazy the partying is there. Caused a lot of problems for the college, especially the president, who stepped down the same year. Watch the movie and change our ranking now!:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/11/11/worcester-wants-holy-cross-students-to-quiet-down/
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Reikoku Jaken
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08:37 AM on 09/21/2011
Wow...I mean so many top 10 colleges in this list...
We have # 71 (Brigham), #25 among liberal arts' schools (Bryn Mawr), #29 for liberal arts (Holy Cross) and yeah...Wheaton.

Wheaton is about as "Straight Edge" as George Bush is literate. Namely, on a pure technicality and even then the folks who are actually familiar with the dorms just chuckle at the notation. I dated a girl out of Wheaton some years ago, their weekend drinking put many a party school to shame.

Though it just goes hand in hand with the old saying that if you can't be good you should at least manage to be discrete. I still remember doing body shots off grain alcohol off my girlfriend's roommate...
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Fennis
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10:39 PM on 09/20/2011
Wow, BYU. Didn't see that one coming. *eyes rolling*
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steviep1986
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08:48 PM on 09/20/2011
This list is ridiculous. I graduated from Creighton UNIVERSITY (not college) and either Unigo doesn't understand what Straight-Edge means or they researched the wrong school. Creighton University has a bar on its campus (It's a WET campus). CU also has greek life. The smoking ban was put into effect for insurance reasons (faculty especially) and was broken regularly when I attended. It sounds like this ranking site has no idea what it's talking about. Wow.
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Megandale
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09:38 PM on 09/30/2011
This article is ridiculous - same with Notre Dame. Was a wet campus until a few years ago, a TON of drinking and partying. They put ND on here because it has chapels in dorms...which play no role in the way students behave. HORRIBLE article.
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xdarthveganx
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07:51 PM on 09/20/2011
As someone who has been straightedge going on 16 years, I find the use of the term in this context a little more than annoying and offensive.
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ecotopian
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06:23 PM on 09/20/2011
"Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of Wellesley's most well-known alumni..." She's an alumna. Alumni is plural.
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historianofart
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11:16 PM on 09/20/2011
Fail where a correction was indeed needed. Alumni is *masculine* plural. The context calls for a plural but the spelling should be "alumnae".
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angelajock
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05:51 PM on 09/20/2011
Rosabla and Wind are SO right. Mount Holyoke is also a women's college in the five College Consortium. Very sloppy, obviously the writer did not do their research.

MHC Class of 2011
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floridaviolinist
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05:23 PM on 09/20/2011
guess I know where I'm NOT applying LOL
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Rosalba Sanchez Gonzalez
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05:16 PM on 09/20/2011
How is Smith the ONLY women's college in the Five College Consortium, eh? Mount Holyoke College is part of the Five College Consortium and the last time I checked they were ALSO women's college. GET your facts straights and yes we are also a straight edge campus too. -MHC Class of 2006
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Nia Schenk
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01:01 AM on 09/24/2011
I would argue that Mount Holyoke deserves the "straight edge" designation more than Smith.
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twigtrigtrack
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05:06 PM on 09/20/2011
Pepperdine academics are only tough if you've fallen down the many steps and bashed your brains in...that school's a rip-off.
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