best top tier party school

College Search & Selection
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<p>Alabama has a pretty strong Greek system, and therefore, there are some serious partying going on. </p>

<p>I think most kids do some partying of some level while at college…I know I did. Maybe the smaller Christian colleges have less partying,??? I don’t know.</p>

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<p>Michigan .</p>

<p>And brewerfan, your cousin is a liar.</p>

<p>On second thought, he’s a UChicago student. He probably honestly thought they were good…</p>

<p>And some might say NU, but that’s definitely up for debate. The Greek scene is certainly plenty strong.</p>

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<p>Only 25% of students at Penn State are in frats and sororities. It is still a huge party school.</p>

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<p>You might find something in this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/348753-ranking-social-life-usnwr-top-20-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/348753-ranking-social-life-usnwr-top-20-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here is a summary of the rankings as voted by posters in that thread:</p>

<p>1 Vanderbilt
2 Stanford
3 U Penn
4 Duke
5 Notre Dame
6 Dartmouth
7 Northwestern
8 Rice
9 Brown
10 Cornell
11 Princeton
12 Wash U
13 Yale
14 Emory
15 Columbia
16 Harvard
17 MIT
18 Johns Hopkins
19 U Chicago
20 Caltech</p>

<p>Outside of the Top 20, but still considering schools with very strong Top 50 rankings, IMO strongest reputations for great social life go to </p>

<p>PUBLICS-U Wisconsin, U Virginia, U North Carolina, U Texas, U Illinois, Penn State, U Florida</p>

<p>PRIVATES-Wake Forest, USC, Boston College, Lehigh, and Tulane.</p>

<p>Social life at LACs is generally on a much smaller scale than any of these schools (Lehigh would be closest). That’s not meant to imply that one can’t greatly enjoy themselves on LAC campuses, but the comparison of the LAC social scenes with the major publics and privates listed above would be like comparing Orvieto to Rome. Both nice places, but different levels of social vibrancy.</p>

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<p>^^No surprise there! I was blown-away by the social opportunities at Vanderbilt. Sometimes I wonder how those kids get any work done with access to so much on campus, next to campus (Hillsboro village) and downtown Nashville. What a fun place to spend 4 years!</p>

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<p>its easier to define non-party schools than party schools-any HUGE school will have some sort of party element</p>

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<p>This is true for top 10ish schools, but for someone looking at slightly less selective schools, I think Vanderbilt, Michigan, UVA, USC, and Boston College fit the bill as well.</p>

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<p>“UCSB, UCSD, UC Irvine, Pepperdine, USC, Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA”</p>

<p>Pepperdine is a “party” school?</p>

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<p>berkeley is a wannabe party school. we party so hard, the professors even heard about it and then scheduled midterms the week following homecoming and halloween.
and these are big, common classes, like physics, multivar, chem… *sigh</p>

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<p>Cornell (10 char)</p>

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<p>Virtually any schools that have strong rah rah big sports are going to have a big party element to them. Throw in Greeks and it’s a guarantee. </p>

<p>Any school that has tailgate parties that involve alumni/fans showing up on game weekend Fridays, pitching EZ UPs, setting up BBQs and staying thru Sundays is going to be a serious party school.</p>

<p>If you started a thread…which schools have the most people tailgating, you’ll get your list.</p>

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<p>based on what I’ve seen, Cornell, Upenn, Vandy, Duke. Generally schools in the middle of nowhere or in bad neighborhoods where all u can do is drink, and generally schools with decent sports programs have a partying atmosphere as well.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>Vandy is not in the middle of nowhere, nor is it in a bad neighborhood.</p>

<p>Schools with strong sports programs and Greeks typically have a party atmosphere.</p>

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<p>Duke, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Williams, Bucknell.</p>

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<p>How is Pepperdine a party school?</p>

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<p>Although I wouldn’t call Rice a party school, there is definitely a lot of partying on weekends. Since we have no frats or sororities, the partying here is not exclusive as you would find at other universities… we are a residential college system, which means basically every student is in a frat/sorority (think Harry Potter houses). I would say Rice’s social atmosphere is one of the most inclusive ones out of all the top 20 schools. We are ranked #1 for Best Quality of Life this year for a reason and #8 for Happiest Students for a reason. Basically, you can work hard here, get an excellent education, and still have a lot of sober/not sober fun at the same time here. Rice is definitely underrated on CC.</p>

<p>Other top schools I recommend for good balance between work and play: Stanford, Duke, Vanderbilt, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, and Northwestern.</p>

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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Cuse507, USNWR says 25% of the classes at UNC are taught bt TAs. Is that true?</p>

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<p>Colgate, BC, and Holy Cross</p>

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<p>I highly doubt it. I’m a junior at UNC and have yet to have taken a class taught by a TA. TA’s usually lead smaller recitation sections that are a part of the larger, more impersonal lecture courses.</p>