My brother is going away to an Ivy League college in 2 weeks. He is going in to one of their sports programs. (He was admitted b/c of extremely high grades, he was salutatorian and has 11 AP classes with the highest score of 5 and he has won state medals for cross country)
He has NEVER partied and never drank, not even a beer. He will be spending a week in a junior's house prior to school starting. After that he'll be in a regular dorm. He has told me that he doesn't know what to do when he gets offered a beer. He said he doesn't know if he really wants to drink.
As an older sister, what should I do. my mom said maybe I should sit with him and have a few drinks so he knows how it feels. I kinda agree that I/we should do something like that - IF he wants to. I think it would be in his best interest, b/c I'm afraid the kids might give him a hard time. He's always been popular even though he doesn't drink (you know how HS can be) and I'm afraid these Ivy League guys won't be like the HS he went to and will give him a hard time and he'll end up depressed or maybe heavily drinking.
Does any of this make sense? I mean, my brother has had to work very hard to get into this school. My family is a middle-class family from the midwest. he isn't getting b/c of mommy & daddy, if you know what I mean. And also, I'm afraid he won't be ready to find a happy medium of drinking socially and not binge drinking or not drinking at all. Is it possible to go to college and not drink at all? I don't know.
can anyone relate, or give any advice?



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