<p>Now you are just trying to be antagonistic for the sake of being so, I guess. Do you even realize how childish what you said sounds?</p>
<p>With regard to the School of Continuing Studies, it makes no sense to conflate that with the full time undergraduate program.</p>
<p>If you have nothing useful to say, be mature and say nothing.</p>
<p>fallenchemist, that is what I thought - how can you have considerable partying at a school, Tulane, whereby about 30% of its undergraduates are older commuting students in a night school continuation program. Doesn’t make sense. But again, there have been reports of considerable partying from Tulane…particularly during the Sunday to Thursday period.</p>
<p>Is this true?</p>
<p>Academics, athletics, alumni giving- National Universities-Duke, Stanford, ND, Princeton, Dartmouth. National LAC’s-Davidson, Holy Cross, Colgate, Williams.</p>
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Making up numbers, are we? 15% - a far cry from 30% - of Tulane undergraduates are over 24.</p>
<p>85% of Tulane undergrads are of traditional college age. With an undergrad population of 6800 students, that’s roughly 5780 students – plenty for a great social scene, especially in a cool city like New Orleans.</p>
<p>warble, thanks for the correction</p>
<p>and 23% of all undergraduates are part-time continuing school commuting students</p>
<p>[2009</a> Fall Official Enrollment](<a href=“Office of the University Registrar |”>Office of the University Registrar |)</p>
<p>JohnAdams is just doing his usual distraction routine. Best ignored. There are a handful of people like him that just like to provoke with antagonistic statements. Don’t let him continue to take this off topic.</p>
<p>PARTY HARD CHARACTERISTICS
-students go out at least 4 nights a week
-lots of hot girls<br>
-strong Greek life
-well-attended tailgates
-every organization on campus hosts a plethora of social events with a lot of alcohol
-administration with lenient drinking/drugs policies
-good nightlife off campus
-close proximity to concerts </p>
<p>These are the kinda things that someone brought up that I want in a party hard school except for the fact that I don’t give a S@(% about hot girls I want HOT GUYS since I’m a chick. I live in CO, I got a 31 on my ACT w/ writing, I Have a 3.95 GPA. So I want a school that is somewhat difficult on average and certainly one that is challenging for me. </p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies so far!</p>
<p>the ultimate work and party hard schools are Princeton and Penn (perhaps duke as well). Penn is known to be highly competitive academically and professionally while having a wild party scene. Princeton is extremely difficult especially with grade deflation and students tend to be either nerds who are there for math/sci/engineering and then rich eating club guys and girls who drink heavily multiple times a week. Columbia has large numbers of students who work extremely hard and then party extremely hard, like in the library all week and weekend keeping the gpa high, and then hitting the bars near campus and the frats every thurs, friday and saturday night. But a large proportion of students are still intellectual and not party animals by any means so it doesn’t qualify as a typical work hard - party hard school. </p>
<p>Many of the schools listed in this thread and more party hard than work hard schools.</p>
<p>Anyone who describes Penn as having a “wild party scene” hasn’t visited enough colleges around the country.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt and USC are the only top schools that truly fits the “work hard and play hard” category. Duke and Michigan come close but don’t quite make the cut IMHO. Columbia has arguably the worst social life among the Ivy League schools. Maybe 10% of the student body truly go out every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. That number is closer to 25% for Penn and Dartmouth. That number is about 50% for Duke and Michigan. Finally, that number is probably about 75% for Vandy and USC.</p>
<p>It is my understanding that USC’s parties at the Greek houses are so great that even UCLA, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount students attend them.</p>
<p>I am not sure that the “work hard” atmosphere would apply to USC, however - at least not like the HYPSMC type of “work hard”.</p>
<p>but fallenchemist were we not on-topic when we were discussing the hard partying atmosphere at Tulane that I keep hearing about?</p>
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<p>Union College. We have engineering but I’m not sure about chemical engineering. We definitely have chemistry though and we definitely know how to party.</p>