Our results must be viewed in light of several caveats. The study was conducted at the same university as the pilot protocol, and evaluations of generalizability to other settings are needed. Second, UCSD students are primarily of EA, Asian, and Hispanic backgrounds, and, considering the importance of race/ethnicity in the analyses, the impact of the prevention protocol on AA and other ethnic groups will require additional study. Third, our focus was on students who were already drinkers (testing the prevention protocol in students at greater risk for heavy drinking) and our personal interest was to work with the broad scope of drinkers who are more representative of drinking students, rather than those with alcohol dependence. Thus, it will be important to test the intervention in students selected because of problematic drinking and on adolescents who have not yet begun to drink. Fourth, we also chose to evaluate how well the protocol works in entering freshmen who were willing to be part of the alcohol education videos, similar to what is likely to be the case if such Internet-based videos are
