Grove City College scores high for not being a party school

The school ranked fifth in the 'Stone Cold Sober Schools' category.
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- If you are a parent looking to send your child to a liberal arts college noted for its study habits and sober attitude rather than its beer parties, Grove City College in southeastern Mercer County might be your answer.
The college recently scored high in The Princeton Review list of schools with low alcohol and drug use.
The survey, based on responses from 100,000 college students nationwide, showed Grove City ranked third in the "Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch" listing of schools that have low use of hard liquor.
It ranked fourth in the "Got Milk?" category of low beer consumption by students.
Grove City ranked fifth in the "Don't Inhale" category reflecting low use of marijuana.
Finally, the school ranked fifth on the overall list of "Stone-Cold Sober Schools."
Grove City will begin its 128th academic year with the first day of classes Wednesday. The school has 2,300 students.
This year's freshman class of 570 comes from 32 states and four foreign countries. Its average Scholastic Aptitude Test score is 1270, and among its members are 66 high school valedictorians, 29 salutatorians and 18 National Merit Scholarship finalists.
The school is listed by Barron's as one of the most competitive colleges in the nation and is ranked by U.S. News & amp; World Report as No. 1 best value and No. 4 overall in the 2003 Guide to America's Best Colleges.
It's a private Christian college teaching liberal arts, sciences and engineering and accepts no federal funding, yet its tuition is about half the national average for private colleges.
Full tuition this year is $9,376, and room and board costs total $4,852.