Princeton review's top PARTY schools

Congrats to all...

The University isn't on the list. Looks like the President has done what he wanted to do - get Bama off that list.

It's new schools every year...obviously administrations of the schools who get the top ranks in this generally take measures to ensure it doesn't happen again. According to TPR, my school was #2 while I was there and the administration blew a gasket, trying to play down the school's image. We weren't even on the list the next year. Same thing will happen with WVU et al. next year, unless they have resigned themselves to that image.

One of the least exciting weeks of my life was spent in Oxford, MS.

Ten State schools. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

kartelite wrote:

It's new schools every year...obviously administrations of the schools who get the top ranks in this generally take measures to ensure it doesn't happen again. According to TPR, my school was #2 while I was there and the administration blew a gasket, trying to play down the school's image. We weren't even on the list the next year. Same thing will happen with WVU et al. next year, unless they have resigned themselves to that image.

That's not true at all. i remember the Princeton review listing the same schools last year (just in a different order).

OK, almost the same:

1. University of Texas at Austin

2. Penn State University

3. West Virginia University

4. University of Wisconsin-Madison

5. University of Mississippi

6. Ohio University

7. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

8. Louisiana State University

9. University of Iowa

10. University of California, Santa Barbara

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14454960/

Well, my point is that some schools will be very high on the list, and then the next year be gone completely. Nothing really changed the year we went from #2 to (gone), just some politicking by admins. Whoever was #1 that year I believe has been absent as well in succeeding years.

I went to UCSB when it was on that list, and parties there seemed ok, but they were NOTHING compared to the parties I went to at USC, which never shows up on that list.

What about the badgers?

halloween used to be a big part of the badger reputation, but the city drowned it with cops and charged admission to state street, causing lower attendance and a lack of rioting.

All except one are eastern schools. This is purely a case of east coast media bias just like in the football polls. I'm only being slightly sarcastic.

What about these famous party schools?

Washington State University

USC

Montana

All should be in the top 10 easily. WSU should be #1.

I remember a while ago Playboy came out with a ranking of party schools. They had a disclaimer: We know that Wazzu (Washington State) should be number one. But, we are ranking amateurs and they clearly are professionals.

Go Sparty?

MSU is not near the party school it was at one time. The partiers are there, but the atmosphere and potential for legendary partying has been reduced. Open alcohol was allowed on campus for many years, and now only allowed during designated hours on home football days. The City of East Lansing has also turned an extremely cold shoulder to the student population and increased noise violation crackdowns to limit partying. This has been concurrent with a massive exodus of students living off campus in new developments outside of the original town. It's not the same top-10 Sparty it once was. Nevertheless, we shall Sparty On....

the fact that Florida is above Florida state shows that these rankings mean absolutely nothing.

I've partied at U of tex austin and Penn State, but oddly enough the craziest party school I ever partied at was in Minnesota. Those Saint Cloud State people are out of control.

urban legend

biased biased wrote:

I remember a while ago Playboy came out with a ranking of party schools. They had a disclaimer: We know that Wazzu (Washington State) should be number one. But, we are ranking amateurs and they clearly are professionals.

Sub6 wrote:

One of the least exciting weeks of my life was spent in Oxford, MS.

What did you do there that you didn't have fun? Great bars and parties, gorgeous girls, and great live music. What more could you ask for?

Top 25 Academic Schools

1. Princeton University (NJ)

2. Harvard University (MA)

3. Yale University(CT)

4. Stanford University(CA)

5. University of Pennsylvania

5. California Institute of Technology

7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

8. Duke University(NC)

9. Columbia University(NY)

9. University of Chicago

11. Dartmouth College(NH)

12. Washington University in St. Louis

12. Cornell University(NY)

14. Brown University(RI)

14. Northwestern University(IL)

14. Johns Hopkins University(MD)

17. Rice University(TX)

17. Emory University(GA)

19. Vanderbilt University(TN)

19. University of Notre Dame(IN)

21. University of California—Berkeley *

22. Carnegie Mellon University(PA)

23. University of Virginia *

23. Georgetown University(DC)

25. University of California—Los Angeles *