<p>"Arizona State Univ.
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC Irvine
Florida State Univ.
Cal-State Chico
Cal-State Long Beach
San Diego State Univ."
Long Beach and Irvine definitely aren't party schools.</p>
<p>How's University of Oregon?</p>
<p>UniSoCal??</p>
<p>All schools are party schools.</p>
<p><strong>coughcough</strong>Dartmouth<strong>coughcough</strong></p>
<p>suny albany</p>
<p>it seems like UC Santa Cruz is a party school, but in a more stoner-y way than other places...</p>
<p>UCSB students have come up with a new slogan for their school: "The most intelligent party school in the country."
That sounds about right. UCSB is basically seen as Chico or SDSU for overachievers.</p>
<p>It's weird that McGill is considered a party school..</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, we party HARD, but its not really school affiliated, except for frosh week...rather, Montreal is a party CITY-most of the kids in my classes look like Asian nerds that would never fit in at an American southern-style frat. So you can study, or you can hit the strip and get drunk at amillion diffrent bars/clubs/and strip joints or go to raves and pop x, or chill at hooka bars, or chill and get high, whatver your vice is...but its not really part of the school culture.</p>
<p>UGA is definitely a party school.</p>
<p>Okay, I'm really freaked out now. Why doesn't anyone mention the LACs? Having good grades etc. I'm applying (as an international, I'm Swedish) to the most competitive schools (not Harvard, but like Middlebury..), but I believe in a freaking balance. I'm legal over here and can not imaging coming to a school where people don't know how to party..</p>
<p>"duke as a party school, haha, that's a good one"</p>
<p>haha... have you ever been to Duke Tailgate?</p>
<p>Don't worry. The LACs have good party scenes as well. You'll find a lot of the "work hard, play hard" mentality at LACs. At small schools, however, it's much more difficult to coast through your 4 years being wasted all the time. If you have a raging hangover and skip a class in a lecture hall with 400 other students, you probably won't be missed. At an LAC with an average class size of 10, you can bet that your absence will be noticed. Plus larger schools tend to have party infrastruture built around them (40,000 students in a city means many more local bars and drunk kids than 2,000 students in a rural New England town).</p>
<p>I think that a more manageable question would be, which colleges are not party schools. Or perhaps the question could be, 'where do students do nothing but party and little else. You may party hard at Duke or Cornell, but your GPA will show it. At other schools you may be able to get by with very little time allocated to studying.</p>
<p>Yah, all the schools like Duke us that "Work hard, play hard" clishe. I think it's true though. At a school like Duke you probably get Friday and Saturday night, not much else or else your grades will suffer. Whereas, at Wisconsin, partying goes from Wednesday-Saturday. Not that Wisconsin isn't a challenging school but kids are more willing to party on school nights. That's my take on it.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I'm actually applying (RD) to Duke, but who knows where I'll end up.. I might get back to you when I'm accepted somewhere :)</p>
<p>Good luck, maybe we will be classmates next year.</p>
<p>What kind of social life is there at RPI, Drexel, Stevens Tech?</p>
<p>^lol..none</p>
<p>I'm a current student at RPI and I actually think the social life isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The impression I've gotten is that half the student body are the nerdy boring people who sit in their rooms and play video games 24/7. The other half are relatively normal college students that like to go out and have fun at the end of a hard week. Of that half, about 60% are in some kind of greek life organization.</p>
<p>Social life at RPI is heavily dominated by greek life; so even if you aren't in a fraternity or sorority, those are pretty much the only places to go to for parties. If you're a guy, it is a lot harder to get into parties than it is if you're a girl (the infamous "ratio" in action); unless of course you are in a fraternity to begin with. Now, RPI's greek system is a bit different than what most people imagine when they think of fraternities and sororities. They are an integral and essential part of the school, and have a much more positive impact on the student body than the stereotypical "Animal House" image. I'd recommend keeping an open mind and checking out a few houses if you wind up attending RPI.</p>
<p>I go to Duke. Party time definitely starts Thursday nights and goes through Sunday morning. Thursday nights are sometimes the wildest, actually.</p>
<p>^ my overnight visit at Duke was on a Thursday night, and it was pretty crazy, but definitely a good time. I had so much fun that it made me 100% positive that I wanted to apply ED...and now, I'm counting down the days until August 21 :)</p>