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Well that’s the reason that I didn’t apply to this one school I had looked at because I thought it was somewhat a party school.</p>
<p>^If I had done that I’d be seriously missing out right now. My school was just named on the Party School list. You know how many parties I went to last year? 0. Never mind the fact that I’ve never drank in my life. Yet I had an amazing freshman year and can’t wait to go back. The academics are great and for my major they have one of the top programs in the nation. Just because it’s a party school doesn’t mean everyone parties, or everyone is expected to. I made friends that didn’t. It was easy. There were sooo many other fun things for us to do, and campus always had something fun going on since we’re a big school. I am not into the party atmosphere whatsoever, and avoid it, and had I let a generalization get in the way of me deciding to attend here I’d be really upset with myself.</p>
<p>Yeah cause you guys don’t party ^ lol</p>
<p>Who is anyone to tell me what I should do or why I should pick my college? As long as I do well in my classes, who cares how I spend my time? I’m allowed to pick my school for any reason that I want. And that’s okay. If I get my degree by studying a lot, or get my degree from studying a lot and also partying, who cares? At the end I still get a degree and I’ve got way better stories than you do.</p>
<p>I’m cool when you say you don’t want to go to a party school, but don’t try to tell me I shouldn’t want to go or that my motives are somehow not as valid as yours. I’m in college for the partying, and that’s okay as long as I get a degree somehow. Where else can you get the party scene you can at most colleges? Nowhere!</p>
<p>In my opinion I don’t really consider anything of so called “party schools” because any school can be a party school if you make it out to be. Going to a non party school won’t make you not party if you really want to. So yes I would go to a party school if it had the programs I was interested in and was fairly cheap, because I wouldn’t be very interested in the party type aspects of the school so it wouldn’t matter to me.</p>
<p>**** yeah Maryland</p>
<p>Plenty of parties if you’re into that, and plenty of not-parties if that’s your thang. 
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<p>RoxSox, if you were making the right decisions you wouldn’t be getting so defensive in here. :)</p>
<p>Deep inside you know that you shouldn’t be partying.</p>
<p>I love my party school. </p>
<p>I don’t think the label is a stigma because the people who really matter (recruiters, grad school ad coms) will see through the BS anyway. </p>
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<p>Oh would ya stop clutching your damn pearls and go get laid? ;-)</p>
<p>I just figure, if it’s a good schools employers know that. If it’s not, employers know that too. So the “party” aspect doesn’t matter for future job prospects unless the school already sucks anyway. I just get interested to hear about what others think…even though yeah, there’s plenty of partying at every school.</p>
<p>And yeah I did get a little defensive before…sorry about that. I was sort of impaired and thought that was a good argument lol.</p>
<p>I go to Penn State, which gets unbelievable crap from literally everyone about its party reputation, but I don’t care at all what others think/say because I know the education I will be getting is top notch. Who cares if it’s a party school? As long as you get your studies done and learn it shouldn’t matter what anyone says.</p>
<p>I go to the University of Iowa, which was recently ranked by princeton review as number 4 party school. I’ am not embarrassed because I see the word party simply as part of the social aspect of the school not education. With that said the University of Iowa education is among the best, both public and private.</p>
<p>However I do understand the concern to prevent underage drinking, but schools need to know the right approach. Example, University of Nebraska I read an article about months ago.</p>
<p>I don’t think “party schools” are bad or good. I think it would mostly depend on the character of the person attending the school. If they want to party or are easily influenced then that’s their problem. If they care about their future and having a good career later in life then they’ll study. Or better yet (maybe) if they care about their future yet know their limits they can both study to get great grades and manage to have a social life to make college a great experience.</p>