OT: Princeton Review Names 2010 Top Party Schools
From the "FWIW" File at the Associated Press ... Princeton Review released it's 2010 list of Top Party Schools. The Big Ten Conference was represented in the top 3, as you'll see below. Strangely, the Ivy Leagues were not.
In order, the top schools for lettin' it all hang out are:
1. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
2. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
5. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas
7. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
8. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
9. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
10. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
Unconfirmed reports say that tOSU almost made the list, but lost a few points due to it's "open cooler" policy.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100802/US.Party.Schools/
EDIT: Fixed.
Or the Princeton Review?
I go to Ohio University. I think it may be a little overrated. Meh, at least we're top 10 in something. Shit does get crazy down here though.
I went to OU graduated 2008 and i do not think thats overrated at all. Ive been to plenty of campuses and i still think Ohio U is the most entertaining party school ever.
In the 90s, I'm pretty sure that OU had riots on the night that Daylight Savings Time started, because the bars closed an hour earlier on Saturday night. This happened more than once. That's a drinkin' school.
I haven't been to a lot of other campuses. I guess it just seems like the norm for me.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:04 AM ^
Shouldn't you be on an Ohio website then?
Couldn't get into Michigan?
Out of state tuition. Or I'm not cool enough. One or the other.
If the only thing I've heard about Ohio is how sick their halloween party is, I'd guess it's a great party school.
The Big 10 actually had 6 of the top 20 schools.
No real surprises, I've always felt big city schools had too much to do to be real party schools.
although Wisconsin has a pretty nice mix of city/party. Was my second choice for undergrad....distant second obviously.
I don't think Madison qualifies as a big city.
It's twice the size of Ann Arbor......it's not huge but big enough to back up my claim of the campus being a nice mix of city and campus.
I agree that it's an excellent town/campus, in a cool geographical location. But it's not a big city. The city proper may have twice as many residents as Ann Arbor, but that's because it covers more than twice as much land (67.3 square miles, to 27.0 for A2). If A2 were to annex Ypsi and Saline, it'd basically be the same city (in terms of population/land) as Madison.
You win.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:41 PM ^
By big, I meant cities like Phoenix, Boston, L.A., etc...
is pretty awesome. Pretty similar to Ann Arbor. My favorite campus that I've been to beside Michigan.
Where's Michigan?
In the library, studying and drinking tea like well-behaved young ladies and gentlemen.
Not entirely true. More like in the library on MGoBlog, praying for the invention of self-writing term papers.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:44 AM ^
Students at other schools pray for the invention of self-writing term papers. At Michigan, the students are working on such a thing
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until I get a text from a State friend checking this list and texting me proclaiming how much better MSU is because they are ranked here. Cedar Village FTL lol
Haha...DePauw...my sister went there. They have one taco bell and one bar. This is NOT the 10th best party school in the country.
Those kind of schools always have awesome parties. There's nothing to do except drink at home.
And Get Naked
There are less than 3000 students on the entire campus. In Indiana you can't buy alcohol on a Sunday. Places like this are NOT typically huge party schools.
I spent time at both Tulane and Michigan. Pretty much everyone else in my extended family and my sister went to DePauw. In my experience, it goes something like this:
Tulane >> Michigan >>>> DePauw.
has a good 25 bars in 2 city blocks, its awesome
OU is a fine school with a flat out beautiful campus. I graduated from there and always felt it was a good value for undergrad education (no great programs, but good programs). I didn't want to pay out-of-state tuition and I didn't want to go to Miami of OH or OSU. It isn't Michigan, or any other B10 school for that matter and it doesn't try to be, but like any school, you get out of it what you put into it.
The party reputation is only partly deserved in my opinion. I think a lot of that reputation is built on the Halloween party, which is a city function. The daylight savings time riot stuff was really, really stupid.
...doesn't even allow booze while tailgaiting on campus (President banned it a few years ago). Very suprised to see them at #1 considering all the university has done to curb drinking on campus.
I haven't been to Athens in 10 or 12 years but I can easily see them at #1 from what I remember of that place.
However, I would think that the campus-ban on alchool would keep it from being #1. There is definitly no drinking at any campus tailgaiting, which is the majority of the tailgate spots. I am not sure if its a campus-wide 24/7/365 ban.
I just was thinking the tailgate parties would have some weight when scoring the schools and that would be enought to keep them out of #1.
That all being said, its still great place on gameday or anyday for that matter. Ill take Gainesville over Athens if I had to choose.
does not a party campus make. They have some serious house parties in Athens, and the music scene rocks.
How the hell would they know about party schools? Let's see the rankings done by the chick in the pajamas that goes to college online.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 PM ^
It looks like I chose the wrong school.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 PM ^
I also go to OU. It is definitley a party school. It is a challenge to complete the Court Street Shuffle. Sadly, I cannot pay the money to go to UM. I got in though!
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 PM ^
UM out of state tuition when I graduated high school was around 34k a year
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 PM ^
I think this list is wayyyy overrated... do you really think that people party more at good schools like Texas more than at some whatever school were academics are less of a priority. Several of those schools are decent academically. I bet any school in Arizona, Santa Barbara, etc parties much more than the schools listed.
The survey was conducted by the Princeton Review, but was based on responses by 100K+ students. I figure the really hard partiers were probably too hung over, or otherwise too occupied to fill out the questionnaire.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:49 PM ^
any top 20 list without the Cal St schools or SUNY Albany is not to be believed.
You have GOT to change the thread title. The Princeton Review has no affiliation with Princeton University. Princeton University, as far as I can discern, has little interest in ranking "party schools."
Princeton Review is a test-prep and admissions consulting firm. Its founder went to Princeton, but there the relationship ends.
The only school in the top 3 not located in Athens.