<p>any major city will have plenty of parties</p>
<p>It is possible to have plenty of "downer" time if you manage your time......that is certain. The whole MWF thing is a little ugle.</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to mention: I'm glad you can take pride in your Dartmouth experience, thethoughtprocess. At least you had a legitimate one - at Dimensions (admitted students' weekend) last year, they tried to cover up all the partying that went on - as if!</p>
<p>Ugle?</p>
<p>I say college visits should be to find out what the college is really like.......that would include the full picture.</p>
<p>Always stay overnight at a hosts or a friends who goes to that college the night before the official school-sanctioned days-on-campus, which is geared towards both parents and students. </p>
<p>It'll definetely give you a feel for the place.</p>
<p>Well, I'm obviously not privy to the internal workings of the admissions's office, but I would suspect there were a lot of liability issues to letting 500 underage prospective students into the whole gamut of fraternity parties, beyond the two that were registered with the school as "safe" for prospies... not that we, especially the females, didn't find our way in anyway.</p>
<p>Definitely in agreement, ThP. (I wrote TP... but then realized...)</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Duke, Penn, Princeton, and UNC have good party scenes. Chicago the worst, I was waiting to get outta there lol.</p>
<p>I was looking for the same thing, and I found that Princeton and Dartmouth have the best party scenes in the Ivy League. Just don't go to Harvard, whatever you do. I admit that Dartmouth has a better party scene than Princeton, but I liked Princeton more. It also depends on what kind of partying you want to do. I'd recommend these two for frat house/eating club type of parties, but they're somewhat isolated. If you're looking for more of a bar scene, any good school in a major city might be preferable. But Princeton and Dartmouth are really terrific both academically and socially, regardless of their seeming lack of variety.</p>
<ol>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Penn</li>
</ol>
<p>stanford?.....</p>
<p>Boston College of UPenn are first two that come to mind immediately, BC throws some big parties that often make the evening news around here ;) Especially, tailgating and parties around playoffs of any sports team.</p>
<p>But your best place would probably be Tulane, and no fears about damage. The school actually made note that:</p>
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With all the media coverage, what you might not know is that many parts of the city escaped any lasting damage. The French Quarter was entirely missed by the flooding. Parts of our campus did flood, but if its not already repaired, its well on its way. In fact, were planning to have all of our facilities up and running for the Spring semester.
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<p>If you don't believe me, please watch this video message from the school:
<a href="http://welcomeback.tulane.edu/media/player.html?supress=100&videoUrl=/media/tulane_visit_xxx.asf&videoTitle=Visit%20Tulane%20University%5B/url%5D">http://welcomeback.tulane.edu/media/player.html?supress=100&videoUrl=/media/tulane_visit_xxx.asf&videoTitle=Visit%20Tulane%20University</a></p>
<p>Tulane University, is unquestionably the country's elite party school.</p>
<p>Good thread, I'm in the same boat man. I will probably end up at Wisconsin</p>
<p>I think OP was looking for a school with elite academics and parties to match</p>
<p>I don't think anyone will argue with Tulane being the top notch party school though...</p>
<p>I am surprised nobody has mentioned Brown. It may not be a "party school" officially-- there is not a special emphasis on puking or anything-- but there were certainly plenty of parties, and also a good range... small off campus gatherings, frats, and everything in between. When I was there the drinking age was 18, so the local clubs were another popular venue. I think the whole party scene was more mellow when it was legal.</p>
<p>Brown students love to relax & have a good time, but also (sometimes secretly) they prize doing well academically. I remember being shocked by some of my friends' academic honors & grad school acceptances at graduation time. Since I'd only ever seen them in lampshade-on-head mode for four years, I had no idea how brilliant many of them were, and how hard they worked. </p>
<p>It was never hard to find many venues for fun at Brown.</p>
<p>I agree with SB mom that Brown is socially awesome.</p>
<p>Also lol same at Dartmouth regarding the way people are humble and have a good time. Graduation day, and even afterwards is sometimes a shocker..."X goes to Harvard med now???" happens all the time. Both the schools I think have friendly student bodies who also happen to be brilliant, but yet they don't flaunt it.</p>