Princeton Review rankings out! Parties, Happiness, etc

hyakku · August 22, 2006, 11:09am

Well guys, I'm not gonna post all, but here are some I found interesting and some I think others would find interesting:

Parties:

Party schools:

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1 The University of Texas at Austin 
2 Penn State University Park 
3 West Virginia University 
4 University of Wisconsin-Madison 
5 University of Mississippi 
6 Ohio University-Athens 
7 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 
8 Louisiana State University 
9 University of Iowa 
10 University of California-Santa Barbara 
11 University of Florida 
12 University of Georgia 
13 Indiana University - Bloomington 
14 University of New Hampshire 
15 Randolph-Macon College 
16 University of Tennessee - Knoxville 
17 Lehigh University 
18 University of Arizona 
19 SUNY at Albany 
20 University of Maryland-College Park

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Least Party schools:

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1 Brigham Young University (UT)

2 Wheaton College (IL) 
3 College of the Ozarks 
4 Grove City College 
5 United States Naval Academy 
6 United States Coast Guard Academy 
7 United States Air Force Academy 
8 CUNY - Queens College 
9 Wellesley College 
10 Calvin College 
11 Wesleyan College 
12 Webb Institute 
13 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 
14 Berea College 
15 Saint Olaf College 
16 Agnes Scott College 
17 Bryn Mawr College 
18 Spelman College 
19 CUNY - Brooklyn College 
20 California Institute of Technology

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Reefer Madness (woot :p):

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1 Warren Wilson College 
2 Bard College 
3 Colorado College 
4 University of California-Santa Cruz 
5 Oberlin College 
6 Pitzer College 
7 Hampshire College 
8 New York University 
9 New College of Florida 
10 Lehigh University 
11 Skidmore College 
12 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 
13 The University of Texas at Austin 
14 Ithaca College 
15 Sarah Lawrence College 
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison 
17 University of California-Santa Barbara 
18 Wesleyan University 
19 West Virginia University 
20 SUNY College at Purchase
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NYU surprised me.

Major Frat and Sorority Scene:

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1 DePauw University 
2 Washington and Lee University 
3 Birmingham-Southern College 
4 Wofford College 
5 Bucknell University 
6 University of Tennessee - Knoxville 
7 Wabash College 
8 The University of Texas at Austin 
9 Southern Methodist University
10 Texas Christian University 
11 Penn State University Park 
12 Fisk University 
13 Dartmouth College 
14 University of Mississippi 
15 Transylvania University 
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison 
17 Vanderbilt University 
18 University of Maryland-College Park 
19 Wake Forest University 
20 Centre College

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Diverse Student Population:

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1 DePaul University 
2 George Mason University 
3 Wesleyan College 
4 University of Miami 
5 CUNY - Hunter College 
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
7 Stanford University 
8 Temple University 
9 Mount Holyoke College 
10 Wellesley College 
11 Agnes Scott College 
12 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 
13 Stony Brook University 
14 SUNY at Buffalo 
15 New Jersey Institute of Technology 
16 University of Maryland-College Park 
17 University of San Francisco 
18 University of South Florida 
19 Randolph-Macon Woman's College 
20 Manhattanville College

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Least diverse:

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1 Providence College 
2 Grove City College 
3 Saint Anselm College 
4 Miami University 
5 Loyola College in Maryland 
6 University of Mary Washington 
7 Muhlenberg College 
8 Washington and Lee University 
9 Fairfield University 
10 University of New Hampshire 
11 Ohio Northern University 
12 Samford University 
13 St. Bonaventure University 
14 Bucknell University 
15 Hampden-Sydney College 
16 University of Richmond 
17 Lehigh University 
18 Wake Forest University 
19 Hillsdale College 
20 Quinnipiac University

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Most Race/class interaction:

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1 Rice University 
2 Stanford University 
3 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 
4 Wesleyan College 
5 Webb Institute 
6 St. John's College (MD) 
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
8 Pitzer College 
9 Beloit College 
10 Eugene Lang College/New School University 
11 St. John's College (NM) 
12 Mount Holyoke College 
13 Whitman College 
14 The University of Tulsa 
15 McGill University 
16 Macalester College 
17 United States Military Academy 
18 Randolph-Macon Woman's College 
19 Yale University 
20 Hendrix College

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Least Race/Class interaction:

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1 Miami University 
2 University of New Hampshire 
3 Washington and Lee University 
4 Trinity College (CT) 
5 Vanderbilt University 
6 Duke University 
7 Wake Forest University 
8 Southern Methodist University 
9 University of Richmond 
10 Duquesne University 
11 Texas Christian University 
12 Rollins College 
13 University of Denver 
14 University of California-San Diego 
15 Lafayette College 
16 College of the Holy Cross 
17 Hofstra University 
18 Syracuse University 
19 Fairfield University 
20 SUNY at Binghamton

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Happiest students:

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1 Brown University 
2 Princeton University 
3 Whitman College 
4 Clemson University 
5 Stanford University 
6 The College of New Jersey 
7 Tufts University 
8 The University of Tulsa 
9 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 
10 Yale University 
11 St. Mary's College of Maryland 
12 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 
13 Amherst College 
14 Dartmouth College 
15 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 
16 Haverford College 
17 Brigham Young University (UT) 
18 Claremont McKenna College 
19 William Jewell College 
20 Southern Methodist University

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LEAST happy:

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1 United States Merchant Marine Academy 
2 New Jersey Institute of Technology 
3 United States Coast Guard Academy 
4 Stony Brook University 
5 Clarkson University 
6 University of Hawaii-Manoa 
7 St. John's University 
8 Illinois Institute of Technology 
9 Fisk University 
10 Hofstra University 
11 Drexel University 
12 University of California-Riverside 
13 SUNY at Albany 
14 George Mason University 
15 SUNY College at Purchase 
16 Hampton University
17 Stevens Institute of Technology 
18 Case Western Reserve University 
19 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus 
20 United States Air Force Academy

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Dorms Like Palaces:

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1 Smith College 
2 Bryn Mawr College 
3 Loyola College in Maryland 
4 Pepperdine University 
5 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 
6 Pomona College 
7 Scripps College
8 Agnes Scott College 
9 Mount Holyoke College 
10 Wellesley College 
11 Claremont McKenna College 
12 Sweet Briar College 
13 Webb Institute 
14 Whitman College 
15 Washington University in St. Louis 
16 Bennington College 
17 Bowdoin College 
18 Williams College 
19 New College of Florida 
20 The George Washington University

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Dorms Like Dungeons:

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1 United States Coast Guard Academy 
2 United States Merchant Marine Academy 
3 University of Hawaii-Manoa 
4 Hampton University 
5 University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
6 SUNY at Albany 
7 University of Florida 
8 University of Idaho 
9 SUNY College at Purchase 
10 University of Washington 
11 The University of South Dakota 
12 University of Missouri-Rolla 
13 Illinois Institute of Technology 
14 Louisiana State University 
15 University of Miami 
16 Stony Brook University 
17 Rider University 
18 SUNY at Buffalo 
19 University of Georgia 
20 University of Rhode Island

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Someone please tell me it aint so at Uni of Miami and Uni of florida, I am really considering those >_<.

hyakku · August 22, 2006, 11:10am

Most Beautiful Campus:

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1 Pepperdine University 
2 Princeton University 
3 Sweet Briar College 
4 Agnes Scott College 
5 Sewanee - The University of the South 
6 Mount Holyoke College 
7 Scripps College 
8 Kenyon College 
9 Loyola Marymount University
10 University of California-Santa Cruz 
11 Wellesley College 
12 Elon University 
13 Colgate University 
14 Warren Wilson College 
15 Vassar College 
16 College of the Atlantic 
17 St. Mary's College of Maryland 
18 The College of New Jersey 
19 Swarthmore College 
20 Washington and Lee University

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Campus is tiny, unsightly or Both:

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1 Drexel University 
2 SUNY at Albany 
3 SUNY College at Purchase 
4 Illinois Institute of Technology 
5 New Jersey Institute of Technology 
6 Cooper Union 
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
8 University of Dallas 
9 CUNY - Hunter College 
10 Rider University 
11 University of Tennessee - Knoxville 
12 Rochester Institute of Technology 
13 North Carolina State University 
14 Clarkson University 
15 Harvey Mudd College 
16 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus 
17 SUNY at Binghamton 
18 SUNY at Buffalo 
19 Stony Brook University 
20 University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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Best Quality of life:

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1 Rice University 
2 Stanford University 
3 Princeton University 
4 Washington University in St. Louis 
5 Claremont McKenna College 
6 The University of Tulsa 
7 Macalester College 
8 Middlebury College 
9 Dartmouth College 
10 Pomona College 
11 Barnard College 
12 Brigham Young University (UT) 
13 Clemson University 
14 Haverford College 
15 Amherst College 
16 Wheaton College (IL) 
17 Davidson College 
18 Brown University 
19 Smith College 
20 Pepperdine University

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Town - Gown Relations are great:

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1 Saint Olaf College 
2 Texas A&M University-College Station 
3 William Jewell College 
4 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 
5 Ripon College 
6 Davidson College 
7 The University of Tulsa 
8 Wheaton College (IL) 
9 Eugene Lang College/New School University 
10 Stephens College 
11 Auburn University 
12 Clemson University 
13 College of the Ozarks 
14 Brigham Young University (UT) 
15 Wesleyan College 
16 Millsaps College 
17 Saint Michael's College 
18 United States Naval Academy 
19 Samford University 
20 Agnes Scott College

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Town - Gown Relations are strained:

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1 Trinity College (CT) 
2 Sarah Lawrence College 
3 Union College (NY) 
4 Duke University 
5 Northwestern University 
6 Colorado College 
7 University of New Hampshire 
8 University of Pennsylvania 
9 Howard University 
10 DePauw University 
11 SUNY at Binghamton 
12 Vassar College 
13 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
14 St. Bonaventure University 
15 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 
16 New Jersey Institute of Technology 
17 Illinois Institute of Technology 
18 Hofstra University 
19 Bennington College 
20 College of the Holy Cross

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Great College towns:

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1 Eugene Lang College/New School University 
2 Barnard College 
3 Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 
4 Suffolk University 
5 DePaul University 
6 Southern Methodist University 
7 McGill University 
8 University of San Francisco 
9 American University 
10 Simmons College 
11 Lewis & Clark College 
12 Emerson College 
13 Boston University 
14 The University of Texas at Austin 
15 New York University 
16 Georgetown University 
17 Northeastern University 
18 The George Washington University 
19 Cooper Union 
20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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More to Do on campus:

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1 Union College (NY) 
2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
3 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 
4 Albion College 
5 New Jersey Institute of Technology 
6 Trinity College (CT) 
7 United States Coast Guard Academy 
8 University of Notre Dame 
9 Lehigh University 
10 Duke University 
11 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
12 Beloit College 
13 DePauw University 
14 Vassar College 
15 Wheaton College (MA) 
16 College of the Holy Cross 
17 SUNY at Binghamton 
18 University of the Pacific 
19 Baylor University 
20 Albertson College of Idaho

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That's it for now, I didn't really bother with academics as its usually the same top schools or so.

What do you guys think?

dwincho · August 22, 2006, 11:18am

Seems like least happy and campus aesthetics are correlated.

slipper1234 · August 22, 2006, 11:24am

It ain't so...

Miami University is the one in Ohio, you are thinking about the University of Miami.

hyakku · August 22, 2006, 11:26am

Yea, right there it says uni of miami has dorms like dungeons, I'm wondering if anyone knows differently or not?

superwizard · August 22, 2006, 11:30am

Hahaha just proves that Stanford isn't just good academically; its good in everything!

SSobick · August 22, 2006, 11:56am

At UF it all depend on the dorm. Beaty and Keys Hall are very nice

columbia2007 · August 22, 2006, 11:58am

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Great College towns:

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1 Eugene Lang College/New School University
2 Barnard College
3 Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
4 Suffolk University
5 DePaul University
6 Southern Methodist University
7 McGill University
8 University of San Francisco
9 American University
10 Simmons College
11 Lewis & Clark College
12 Emerson College
13 Boston University
14 The University of Texas at Austin
15 New York University

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What in god's name!? Barnard, next door to Columbia, is ranked higher, and Columbia is only ranked for the engineering school, which is on the same campus as the college. New School is number one and NYU, which is basically intertwined with it, is 15!? Similar discrepency with intertwined Suffolk and Emerson. Madness.

system · August 22, 2006, 12:07pm

Columbia07, since this is a student poll, I wouldn't worry about little oddities like that

Though its pretty clear students like NYC

mathmom · August 22, 2006, 12:13pm

The Great college towns listing I agree makes no sense. They should have done it by towns not colleges. Four of the top 20 share New York City as a best college town - though perhaps you could argue that the Village and the Upper West Side are differnet towns. Boston also has three univeristies. I'm surprised no one thinks Cambridge MA is a great college town.

system · August 22, 2006, 12:14pm

University of Miami (Florida) does not have dorms like dungeons. They are just about to complete the new University Village apartments which are incredible for juniors & seniors.

For those that were supposed to live in the University Village apartments this fall semester but couldn't because they are not done yet got put up in get this... The Biltmore Hotel which is a AAA 4-Diamond hotel!

Talk about some NICE living.

columbia2007 · August 22, 2006, 12:14pm

Even if you consider neighborhoods different towns, the fact that Columbia is across the street from Barnard and that there are New School buildings next to NYU ones makes this absurd.

Cre8tive1 · August 22, 2006, 1:30pm

Boston has four on there:

Simmons
Suffolk
Emerson
Boston University

I wouldn't be suprised if Suffolk got #1, it is more intergrated into the city than any other school, Emerson straddles the Boston Commons (atleast there buildings are on one square), but Suffolk is scattered on Beacon Hill in NYU fashion.

Simmons with it's small collected student body was probably easier to poll amongst the Boston school. The school is by no means peace of cakes, but academics are not as hard-pressed as it elite peers, among anyone, Berklee boys and Simmons girls are the ones I see enjoying the city the most.

And really this is a campus survey, so it really is judging a small sample of which kids love their city the most. Really their probably was no difference between the top three, but you have to seperate them somehow, and it can't simply be b/c one school is academically better.

Really, different parts of town, different people, they study at different levels, and one student may get out a whole lot more than the others.

For instance, if I was BU, I'd definitely enjoy the city much less than I would at MIT, Northeastern, or Tufts. I enjoy easy access, having the nice skyline to look at from the hillside (Tufts) or from across the river (MIT), but I don't need a six lane highway going through my campus and greenry and good asthetics are a must, too much concrete.

kk19131 · August 22, 2006, 1:49pm

It's great that Evanston hates Northwestern.

Although the city would not exist without the school. Good ol' EV,IL. :)

I'm also happy to see that PR realizes how much Drexel sucks.

pirt8528 · August 22, 2006, 2:18pm

how is tulane/ loyola not on best towns? new orleans is the best college town there is. period.

kk19131 · August 22, 2006, 2:24pm

When it’s not flooded and ravaged I’m sure. :)

Cre8tive1 · August 22, 2006, 3:22pm

It's hard to judge, I mean i'm betting the campus was closed when these surveys were done...I know the French Quarters, the part that matters to students are intact, but facing the fact that Tulane is not the same school anymore, sorry to burst anyones bubble...

The schools been forced to let go of about 3,000 staff including a couple hundred teaching faculty, they've had to eliminate almost all of their engineering program, and reform there whole men's college and women's college establishment (there's only one college now, btw).

misterme2009 · August 22, 2006, 3:23pm

Woot Rice No. 1 for quality of life and No. 1 for most race/class interaction. Take that people who say Houston sucks!

hyakku · August 22, 2006, 5:22pm

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When its not flooded and ravaged Im sure.

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LMAO my sentiments exactly, what type of question was that?

columbia2007 · August 22, 2006, 5:43pm

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Woot Rice No. 1 for quality of life and No. 1 for most race/class interaction. Take that people who say Houston sucks!

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Rice is a wonderful school. That doesn't change anything about the fact that Houston sucks.

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