<p>I don’t see what’s wrong with them if you know how to handle yourself. Don’t go to parties if you don’t want to. It’s simple. I think people over exaggerate about party schools.</p>
<p>^That’s how I’d view it too. Most party schools tend to be really big schools that have a lot going on, partying and otherwise. But I see people using the term “party school” as an insult - but at most of them there’s LOTS going on, parties are only part of it. Any place that’s a big student area is going to have a lot of partying, that’s the nature of college. Furthermore, I think many/most people who do go to party schools consider it a compliment! I know I do…UW-Madison has been on the Top Party Schools list for years now :)</p>
<p>sure if you like drinking yourself silly, then it is a great thing</p>
<p>Why do you go to college? Career advancement</p>
<p>Does a college being a party school help thus in any way?
No</p>
<p>Therefore part schools do not really matter</p>
<p>IMO you go to college to learn.</p>
<p>Personally, I’m not much of the “partying type” but it wouldn’t be a bad thing necessarily. It wouldn’t be the sort of thing to turn me towards or away from a school basically.</p>
<p>I see partying and academics as mutually exclusive. You can participate or cannot. It’s not like someones going to force you to drink or smoke or club. I think party schools get unfair reputations, just as Cornell has for the recent deaths (but as Islander pointed out, that’s been blown out of proportion.</p>
<p>A party school with solid academics sounds ideal to me. The idea that college is JUST for academics sounds so dull it makes me want to self-harm.</p>
<p>I love your posts RoxSox!</p>
<p>In my opinion, it’s not a good thing. That’s why I chose UC Irvine over UCSB, since UCSB had the reputation of a party school. Though ever college’s gonna have its partygoers, some are more well known for it than others, and I don’t want that sort of reputation at the place I’m supposed to be getting my education.</p>
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Durrr, as much time as you want/need? My college has huge parties every Friday (unless a paper is due the next day) and Saturday and is known for its high amount of drug use, yet it still has arguably the most rigorous academics in the country. One can be social and intelligent; they are not mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>I didn’t know drug use equated to being social</p>
<p>You do realize I put an ‘and’ in there for a reason, right? Get that ■■■■■■■■ out of here.</p>
<p>No. Would not even entertain the thought.</p>
<p>College of Charleston is the number one party school in South Carolina. In-state kids avoid it like the plague because their parents make them.</p>
<p>Out of State parents apparently know no better and allow their kids to go there.</p>
<p>Honestly… I chose not to even look at CofC because of its party school status. I just didn’t want that type of stigma coming out of college and looking for employment. I didn’t want people judging me for going to a school.</p>
<p>Whether CofC is actually anymore of a party school than any other school is a completely different question.</p>
<p>But there’s definitely a negative stigma around party schools.</p>
<p>EDIT: What’s funny is that I just saw someone from my college post this a few minutes ago: <a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/list-of-2011-top-party-and-stone-cold-sober-schools-from-princeton-review-student-survey/2011/08/01/gIQAjRcdnI_story.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/list-of-2011-top-party-and-stone-cold-sober-schools-from-princeton-review-student-survey/2011/08/01/gIQAjRcdnI_story.html</a></p>
<p>USC is number 20. CofC isn’t there. haha.</p>
<p>But I definitely didn’t choose my school based on party status. And in-state, USC and Clemson don’t have the same reputation for being party schools that CofC does for whatever reason.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know about College of Charleston, but there are lots of “party schools” that are also really sound academically. I don’t necessarily think that the party reputation hurts those schools (my obvious point of reference would be UW-Madison but there are lots like it) and I don’t think employers look down on graduates from those schools. So CofC must not be that great academically in order for that judgement to occur. That’s how I look at it anyway, I could just be uninformed.</p>
<p>Btw, as people have said, you can party as much or as little as you want. It’s not like if you go to a party school you are required to party three nights a week. You have obligations? Go do those. </p>
<p>I’m not ashamed to admit that I chose my school because of the insane parties. I wouldn’t go here if there were insane parties and the academics sucked, but honestly how much fun I would have in college was my #1 factor in my decision and I’m okay with that. For me college is four amazing years where I get to party my ass off, and then I also get a degree. I do well in my classes and I do everything I have to do, and I manage to party three nights a week. It can be done and lots of people do it…and they aren’t better or worse than anyone who does not.</p>
<p>Some people on this thread are being huge snobs. I don’t understand why so many people think that attending a “party school” means that no one goes to class and the students just spend their days drinking themselves into a stupor. If you’re not a mindless, weak-willed, crowd following sheep, going to a party school doesn’t mean that you have to party 24/7. You can actually (who would have believed it?!) go to class, study hard, get a quality education, and get a good job after graduation, even if you do go to a so-called party school. Crazy right? The quality of the education you receive depends on what you make of the resources provided by your school. If you think that you couldn’t succeed at a party school because a fraction of the student body loves to party, then you have a problem, not the school.</p>
<p>^ Exactly, I partied 3 times a week sometimes 4. I would work my butt off during the week from morning to night.</p>
<p>Partying was a way to reward myself. I know plenty of other people who partied a lot and got good grades. It is just about how you manage your time. Like RoxSox I also picked my schools based on both academics and the fun I would have.</p>
<p>You can go to a “party school,” not be into partying at all, and still have a blast. I do. So I don’t see what the problem is.</p>
<p>RoxSox, RoxSox, RoxSox, your priorities are all screwed up. </p>
<p>Partying detracts from the educational experience… If you want to party, go to a local nightclub. :)</p>
<p>^Yep, I agree…picking a school based on its parties just isn’t right or what college is meant for.</p>
<p>“^Yep, I agree…picking a school based on its parties just isn’t right or what college is meant for.”</p>
<p>Well not picking a school just because it has a party reputation is just as dumb IMO.</p>