20-year-old exchange student who wants to party but also study, which university fits me better ?

<p>Im going on fall 2015 to the states and Im still not sure which university to choose.
Im pretty chill and very easy to get along with, at first a little shy though.
I want to party a lot but also going to a good school. </p>

<p>I can choose between :</p>

<ul>
<li>UT at Austin</li>
<li>University of California (every campus but San Francisco)</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>University of Colorado at Boulder.</li>
</ul>

<p>Thank you and sorry for my english :) !</p>

<p>You want boulder, and if you cannot have Boulder try Texas… These other schools are very good, and I’m sure some people party a lot at these schools but they are FAR from being considered party schools.</p>

<p>You may also like UC Santa Barbara, especially for the weather…</p>

<p>I would say UCSB, UCSD, Northwestern for strong academics/wild parties.
Then Colorado or UT Austin for great parties and academics.
Absolutely not Chicago nor CMU :smiley: if parties are important to you.</p>

<p>UCSD is definitely not a party school, and Santa Barbara’s weather can get chilly.
Can you afford these schools?</p>

<p>I’m afraid you might have a hard time if your top priority is to party a lot. It is hard to get into UT-Austin if you’re not in-state, also.</p>

<p>@MaineLonghorn‌ Exchange students don’t have to go through the normal admission channels that regular students do.</p>

<p>CU Boulder (would be my top choice thanks to the incredible scenery, legal weed, great parties, and solid academics)
UCSB (fantastic location, great parties, good academics, excellent weather)
UCLA (great city, decent parties, excellent academics, nice weather)
UT Austin
Northwestern</p>

<p>Thank you all !!
Before this my first choice was UT at Austin and I was thinking of living in a Coop.
When I say I want to party a lot I just mean that If I’m traveling a long way to get there from Chile I really want to have a real american college experience ( a lot more parties than here), make chill friends and travel around the surrounding areas of where the University is located. I dont want to party ALL the time, and be surrounded with the type of people whose top priority is to party. I want to go where party and study can coexist in armony.</p>

<p>@whenhen may be the first person to ever use (correctly) “legal weed” and “solid academics” in the same sentence. :P</p>

<p>^^^outside of Colorado. or Oregon.</p>

<p>All I know is that University of Chicago does not belong on that list at all.</p>

<p>Nor Carnegie Mellon, unless you plan on spending nights at Pitt.</p>