<p>what are the best schools academically with an awesome party scene</p>
<p>some state schools like wisconson and rutgers.<br>
Bucknell and Lehigh are two others although I have heard that lehigh is a lot less so nowadays. You may have to look at the lehigh thread for that.</p>
<p>washington & lee comes to mind ...
i definitely second lehigh</p>
<p>I've heard UCSB is a party school & since it is a UC it has solid academics</p>
<p>UTexas-Austin
Southern Cal
Penn State
UMass-Amherst
Darmouth (not really hardcore compared to UWisc and Texas, but compared to the ivies)</p>
<p>I 2nd Dartmouth and UCSB. Also University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>I 2nd Iowa</p>
<p>ASU anyone?</p>
<p>U Texas - #1 Party School according to Princeton Review, and it's definetely not bad academically either.</p>
<p>University of Iowa
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Arizona
Penn State
UCSB- unbelievable party school (Isle Vista is amazing)</p>
<p>Colorado-Boulder</p>
<p>Dartmouth (and Penn) are good schools academically that have parties. Not party schools that have good academics.</p>
<p>Wow, this is the best question I've seen asked on CC, at least as far as school questions go. I would have to believe UT and Colorado-Boulder would be right up there. But I think it's a spectrum thing. Dartmouth on the higher academic side and other colleges on the higher party side. Can you quantify what you're looking for?</p>
<p>I'm biased but the girls at Vanderbilt are absolutely beautiful, the parties are incredible, and the school still offers a top-notch undergraduate education.</p>
<p>Other schools I'd recommend --
BC
Colgate
Delaware
Florida
Lehigh
Michigan
Middlebury
North Carolina
Penn State
Tulane
UCSB
UC-Boulder
UMiami
USC
UVA
UT-Austin
Washington and Lee
Wake Forest
Wisconsin</p>
<p>To a lesser extent -- Duke, Dartmouth, Gtown, Penn, and Princeton (eating clubs) have good social scenes compared to their peers. In general, the easiest way to avoid schools with bad social scenes is to avoid tech schools and apply to schools with D-1 sports (eliminates Chicago, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Hopkins, Tufts, Brandeis, etc.)</p>
<p>I definitely second Duke & Dartmouth, but academic powerhouses with great parties probably describes them better...then the reverse.</p>
<p>There's parties everywhere.</p>
<p>"There's parties everywhere."
Agree. Some of the schools that people are throwing out there are not party schools. I've been to parties at party schools and parties at regular universities. There's a big difference between UC Berkeley and ASU. Saying that Duke is a party school is laughable.</p>
<p>I have a friend at Duke who said everything revolves around Greek Life at the school. He said the parties can't compete with the ones at Chico State, UCSB, SDSU, ASU, etc.</p>
<p>USC and UCSB are two that I'm familiar with.</p>
<p>UCSB
Wisconsin-Madison
USC</p>
<p>Penn State!</p>