<p>Ok, so I came upon this in an old thread: </p>
<p><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/sioncampus/10/13/roadtrip.ivy/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/sioncampus/10/13/roadtrip.ivy/index.html</a></p>
<p>Its a couple years old but still a good read. make sure you read all the way thru (keep clicking continue), it goes more in-depth (a pg each) for each college.</p>
<p>Obviously Yale belongs on the top; reading this makes me wish I had applied there. I mean, come on Tequila Mondays? Liquor Treating (thats pretty clever word play might i add)? Doesnt get any better than that haha.</p>
<p>SO, the question of the month is do YOU the actual college kids who go to these schools agree with these rankings? Does your school deserve a higher (or lower) ranking? Why? Anything important the article left out/should mentioned? Come on, some of the other Ivy leaguers look downright boring compared to Yale now. </p>
<p>The thing is, I will hopefully be considering a couple of those schools and would love to hear more on stuff like what I've read in the article. It could help me make my decisions come April. But also hearing about the other schools is pretty intersting too, so feel free to brag about your school's social scene no matter what school it is.</p>
<p>If this is what piques your interest in Yale...then...lol...not trying to act superior here or anything but still...news flash, there is drinking at every college and a Sports Illustrated article should not define a school's social scene for you...</p>
<p>well clearly they left out stuff that's not mainstream sports - also for an SI article they seemed to omit all mention of Yale sports. Dartmouth's men's hockey team is usually better than Cornell's, in fact they won the Ivy League championship this year ... they're also almost always thrown out. That plus the tradition of throwing tennis balls at Princeton's team when Princeton visits (look out as Princeton visits Hanover this weekend for the ECHL playoffs).</p>
<p>They left out non-mainstream sports ... Dartmouth has had a men's slalom national champion each of the last five years, and annually is in the top 10 in skiing (both men's and women's, alpine and XC .... way better than any other ivy). The sailing teams at many of hte ivys are top notch, those are omitted too.</p>
<p>Also, the article mentions Brown's beirut, but omit Dartmouth's obsession with pong, which is NOT the same as beirut, just ask.</p>
<p>Also, New Haven is sketchy, like the article says, which ought to drop Yale down on the list.</p>
<p>myth #1: new haven is sketchy.</p>
<p>Fact: the outskirts of new haven can be sketchy. downtown new haven (which is where the yale campus is located) is perfectly safe, very pedestrian-friendly, there are students/young professionals mulling around at all hours, and it is becoming a very cosmopolitan small city, with a huge variety of cultural options- museums, theater, music, very happening nightlife, some of the best restaurants in connecticut.
i'm a very petite, slightly neurotic, white girl and have never been nervous walking around. like any city, you just know which parts to avoid.</p>
<p>haha ok i realize how i might of come off like that. </p>
<p>I mean yea, I wanna hear about school's party scenes, but mostly I started this thread for quirky, cool, one-school-in-the-whole-world-does-this, tradition, type stuff. And some of those things might happen to be, say, Tequila Monday. Or, all the Yale colleges having their owned themed tailgates. that kind of stuff just appeals to me, so I'm trying to get a gauge on the schools I'm considering, so hopefully it could help me make a better choice for myself. </p>
<p>Like, rightnotleft mentioned dartmouth throwing tennis balls at princeton. lol not as cool as cornell's fish but still. do you happen to know like the big story behind it?</p>
<p>Also, on the tailgating topic, can anyone else maybe comment on the athletic pride, fans, whatever at their school. I realize it's not gonna be as crazy as big state schools, but still.</p>
<p>Well what I meant to say in my post was that you shouldn't develop this opinion of Yale based on one sports magazine article. For all you know, those Yale Tequila Mondays could be myths, or outdated, or much smaller in real life. Other Ivy league schools might have even wilder parties (in fact, Penn is definitely more chill and fitting for a social/party type student who also wants to get down Ivy style in the classroom).
(I do think that Yale is a good choice for a reason that was ignored in the article: RAs don't discipline you for drinking in the dorms. See the Yale forum for more info. See? It pays to research individual colleges.)</p>
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myth #1: new haven is sketchy.</p>
<p>Fact: the outskirts of new haven can be sketchy. downtown new haven (which is where the yale campus is located) is perfectly safe, very pedestrian-friendly, there are students/young professionals mulling around at all hours, and it is becoming a very cosmopolitan small city, with a huge variety of cultural options- museums, theater, music, very happening nightlife, some of the best restaurants in connecticut.
i'm a very petite, slightly neurotic, white girl and have never been nervous walking around. like any city, you just know which parts to avoid.
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<p>I go to Penn. That's in West Philly. When I went to New Haven to visit Yale, I was scared.</p>
<p>That's because the "West Philly" around Penn really isn't that scary, unless you head northwest.</p>
<p>I've been as far NW as 45th and Market...and it starts to get really bad, really fast there.</p>
<p>yea, new haven is sketchy ...</p>
<p>i spent a lot of time in new haven growing up ... yes the parts right around yale are nice, but who wants to just stay around there?</p>
<p>Haha, Yale Tequila Mondays...thats cute. Thats probably not even worth mentioning if compared to drinking activities at other schools, even Princeton and...gasp...PENN.</p>