I was wondering what colleges to look at if I want to party yet get a decent education. I want to go to a school where Fraternities are not the only option to parties, or if they are, I want them to be easy to get into said Frat Parties. OR I’d like a school where some frats are easy for me to get into. I don’t want a terrible school just to party, but I’d like to have decent options most nights. Any suggestions?
You literally just described about 90% of 4 year colleges in this country.
In other words, it would probably be easier to make a list of schools that don’t fit your criteria and tell you to pick any one other than those.
Well, I know Urbana-Champaign and UW Madison were ranked as part of the top 10 best party schools in the US by Princeton Review, and they both have excellent academic reputations. I don’t know what other schools were on the list, but I’m pretty sure many many colleges in general have good undergrad programs along with good party scenes.
But I mean, what are you looking to major in? That’s kind of more important when picking these sort of things haha.
Even at big greek schools, frats are not the only way to go about partying. I go to the University of Oklahoma which in many ways is the stereotypical big Southern state school. While there are plenty of frat parties, a large number of parties are held in off campus residences. Sometimes they’re thrown by students affiliated with greek life, other times not. Typically as long as it’s not in an actual frat house or a gathering of a few friends, all are welcome.
For instance, school started this week so naturally a large number of students held parties. I went to a few and knew of quite a few more. Some were at greek students’ houses or apartments, others were at independent students’. The only issue is that as a freshman, it’s unlikely you’ll initially know about private residence parties. Because of this, you’ll almost certainly be mainly relegated to either drinking in the dorms or open frat parties before you get to know more upperclassmen.