College presidents agree binge drinking is the most serious problem on campus.
In 1999, Harvard University's School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveyed students at 119 colleges. If they were binge drinkers in high school, they were three times more likely to binge in college . The percentage of students who were binge drinkers was nearly uniform from freshman to senior year, even though students under 21 are prohibited from purchasing alcohol. Over half the binge drinkers, almost one in four students, were frequent binge drinkers, that is, they binged three or more times in a two-week period. While one in five students reported abstaining from drinking alcohol.