<p>What do u think would be the top 5 options?</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
Northwestern
U Mich
Columbia
UI-UB</p>
<p>Are those supposed to be the top engineering schools? Because if that’s the case, you’re missing some big names (and added some lower ranked schools).</p>
<p>But off the top of my head, just looking at the top 15 schools, the top 5 social scenes would be UCLA, UCSD, UT-Austin, Michigan, and USC.</p>
<p>To add to G.P.'s comment, UIUC and Purdue also have big social scenes and are highly ranked in most or all engineering specialties.</p>
<p>Stanford has an amazing social scene from what I’ve heard</p>
<p>How about Georgia Tech., Rice University, and Cooper Union? anyone know?</p>
<p>The best social scenes are probably going to be at the state schools that aren’t entirely focused on engineering.</p>
<p>I go to Stanford and we have a good social scene. A nice blend of work and play.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech - Study hard, play hard.</p>
<p>UIUC and Purdue are schools with massively large greek systems, if the greek system is your thing, these are schools to consider.</p>
<p>Out of the schools you posted in your first post, here’s how I would rank their social life from top to bottom:</p>
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<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>MIT </li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>
<p>pierre, you are a moron. Unless you have personally attended each of those schools, how would you know?</p>
<p>You have MIT beating out Michigan, Illinois an Berkeley? Really? MIT isn’t exactly known for its amazing social scene.</p>
<p>really? MIT has some pretty crazy parties from what I’ve heard (I live next to Cambridge and know 4 people going to MIT). Also, MIT is in Boston, Illinois is in middle of nowhere Illinois.</p>
<p>Penn State, and also University of Washington.</p>
<p>I say it again, MIT is not known for it’s social scene. Most of the big state schools are. MIT is a great school obviously, but you don’t go there for it’s social scene. Sure it is in Boston, but just because they don’t have a major metropolitan area nearby doesn’t mean that Ann Arbor and Champaign don’t have anything to do. On the contrary, but schools are usually noted for their social lives, be that a good or bad thing…</p>
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<p>To be clear, MIT is not in Boston, but is actually in *Cambridge<a href=“unless%20you’re%20counting%20some%20of%20the%20frat%20houses%20which%20are%20indeed%20in%20Boston”>/i</a>. Cambridge is not Boston.</p>
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<p>I go to UW, and wouldn’t recommend it for sociable people. It’s quite the commuter school, hell, even most of the greeks seem to go home on the weekends.</p>
<p>I think it all depends on the type of social scene you’re looking for. For example, the two schools I’ve been at, Caltech and Carnegie Mellon, would both typically be described has having little to no social scene at them, but I’ve had no problems finding parties and whatnot at each. I think the big difference between these sorts of places and large state schools with a reputation is our parties tend to be smaller in scale and with more people you know than random people from all over school.</p>
<p>Ucla
uc berkeley
carnegie-mellon</p>
<p>not mit nor cal tech!!</p>
<p>sakky, we are well aware that MIT is in Cambridge. We are not ■■■■■■■■. However, Cambridge is literally touching Boston, something you can’t say about Champaign or Ann Arbor or other similar college towns. But then college towns have a social culture all their own despite being off on their own.</p>
<p>Yeah, looking at the map, MIT certainly looks closer to Boston than CMU was to Pittsburgh proper, even though my mailing address was Pittsburgh.</p>