<p>Michigan State, Colorado-Boulder, Indiana</p>
<p>Yeah, Indiana definately</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Colgate, Middlebury, Bucknell, Washington & Lee, Lehigh, Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I second Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>To rank the beloved Ivies for parties, I'd say:
Dartmouth
Penn
Brown/Yale/Princeton/Cornell
Harvard
Columbia</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford might go in or near the Brown/Yale etc. mess. MIT in there too surprisingly although the student body is not as good looking. Caltech would be about 20 lightyears behind Columbia.</p>
<p>Um middlebury is actually completely dead on weekends. The hardcore partiers often have to make a weekly commute to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>ALL big 10, especially Iowa, Wisco and OSU.</p>
<p>For the UC's
party school w/good academics
UCSB</p>
<p>academic schools w/good parties
UCB, UCLA, UCD</p>
<p>"For the UC's
party school w/good academics
UCSB</p>
<p>academic schools w/good parties
UCB, UCLA, UCD"</p>
<p>Haha ... what? academic schools with parties.... verus party schools with good academics... haha.. i would list UC Davis with UCSB as more of a party school with good academics than a academic school with parties, although it doesnt seem to fit perfectly in either category. UCSB is ranked higher than UC Davis and has more higher ranked individual departments and is more difficult to gain admissions too (higher sat score average, gpa average, significantly lower admit rate, etc.). Its a large stretch to put UC Davis with UCLA and UCB as an academic school. Its not even close to the other two. While I agree UCSB is deffiantly a party school, I wouldnt exactly call UC Davis an academic school with the likes of UCB and UCLA, although UC Davis does have good academics. UC Davis is likely less of an academic school than UCSB in terms of quality of freshmen admits etc. Ill give you credit collegemom16, we have argued about this before with your UC Davis promotion by listing it with significantly better schools, but you continue to do it. You deffiantly love UC Davis. I guess well have to agree to disagree.</p>
<p>Party Schools w/good academics</p>
<p>Bucknell
Lehigh
UVirginia
UNorth Carolina
Penn State</p>
<p>Academic Schools with good parties
Dartmouth
Duke
Vanderbilt
Washington & Lee</p>
<p>UVA
James Madison</p>
<p>wvu (alright academics)
maryland</p>
<p>for ucchris:
campus crime and arrest rates </p>
<hr>
<p>I found this crime rate comparison website:
<a href="http://ope.ed.gov/security/Search.asp%5B/url%5D">http://ope.ed.gov/security/Search.asp</a>
Under disciplinary action/judicial referal (arrests) the statistics were interesting
for 2005:
UCSD
drugs:117
alcohol:1237
UCSB
drugs:235
alcohol:1188
UCSC
drugs:605
alcohol:1257
UCD
drugs:26
alcohol:180
UCI
drugs:54
alcohol:227
UCLA
drugs:111
alcohol:742
CAL
drugs:96
alcohol:707
on campus residence hall arrests for drugs and alcohol in 2005
UCSD
drugs:0
alcohol:4
UCSB
drugs:20
alcohol:20
UCSC
drugs:0
alcohol:0
UCD
drugs:2
alcohol:0
UCI
drugs:5
alcohol:1
UCLA
drugs:1
alcohol:1
CAL
drugs:9
alcohol:14</p>
<p>on campus not in the residence hall for 2005
UCSD
drugs:10
alcohol:33
UCSB
drugs:72
alcohol:44
UCSC
drugs:2
alcohol:7
UCD
drugs:13
alcohol:0
UCI
drugs:44
alcohol:3
UCLA
drugs:22
alcohol:1
CAL
drugs:111
alcohol:148</p>
<p>How could you list UVA not as an academic school?</p>
<p>Collegemom: Those statistics, while interesting, do not account for the wildly different enforcement practices at different schools. For example, the RSO's at UCSD are EXTREMELY strict while the enforcement at UCSB is rather lax.</p>
<p>"For the UC's
party school w/good academics
UCSB</p>
<p>academic schools w/good parties
UCB, UCLA, UCD"</p>
<p>No offense, but have you actually been to these schools. Pulling up statistics doesn't tell the whole story. Davis is a very boring town and while there are parties, I wouldn't consider it a party school. UCSB is considered a more a higher tier UC than UCD. Finally, UCB is definitely not a party school. Like another poster said in this thread, every school has parties, but that doesn't make it a party school.</p>
<p>As a parent with little knowledge of the social atmosphere, you probably shouldn't be commenting on these schools without having actually experienced the scene at these colleges.</p>
<p>almost any residential campus is going to be a "party" school. This means a college where everyone lives on/near campus, typically outside a large city. So pick schools with good academic reps that meet this criteria. In CA a few examples would be cal-state chico, cal-poly slo, and ucsb. Not every school matching this definition will be a "party" school, but at least it gives you a start for further investigation.</p>
<p>ckmets- too big,too Southern,and too Greek to be considered an intellectual environment. Thats why. Kids go more for Rugby Row than discussing Jefferson's influence on religion as a deist.</p>
<p>"For the UC's
party school w/good academics
UCSB</p>
<p>academic schools w/good parties
UCB, UCLA, UCD"</p>
<p>No offense, but have you actually been to these schools. Pulling up statistics doesn't tell the whole story. Davis is a very boring town and while there are parties, I wouldn't consider it a party school. UCSB is considered a more a higher tier UC than UCD. Finally, UCB is definitely not a party school. Like another poster said in this thread, every school has parties, but that doesn't make it a party school.</p>
<p>As a parent with little knowledge of the social atmosphere, you probably shouldn't be commenting on these schools without having actually experienced the scene at these colleges."</p>
<p>I have a child at UCD and I have visited all the other UC's on more than one occasion, as has my child. Davis has a very fun social scene. When have you been there? As for ranking where did you get your information??? Davis, SB and UCI are all considered middle tier. LA, CAL and UCSD are the top w/ SD just slightly below.</p>
<p>Oh and Davis also has D1 sports including a brand new football stadium. Neither SB, SD or Irvine have football. This alone adds a tremendous amount of school spirit and fun to UCD.</p>
<p>"Davis has a very fun social scene. When have you been there?"
Sure there are house parties and small gatherings, but there isn't a lot to do in the town of Davis. Sacramento isn't far but Sac Town is an awful city.</p>
<p>I go to school two hours from Davis and have been there seven times in the past year and a half. The people I know who go there like the school, but it doesn't compare to UCSB in terms of the party atmosphere. Davis is a college town, but isn't a vibrant college town.</p>
<p>The social life at Davis is far better than at UCI and UCSD, but that doesn't make it a party school.</p>
<p>Few colleges have an area like Isle Vista; this is where many UCSB live. Del Playa is a street in Isle Vista that is very close to the beach. Everybody on DP is a college student and parties occur practically 24/7. Everything is open door, unlike fraternities. It is not uncommon to see people walking around IV at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. At UCSB, you choose which party you go to. At most colleges, you have to find parties. This is what differentiates a party school from a school with parties (almost every college).</p>