Which of the top 25 are known for being party schools?

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Anonymous wrote:DS attends a top 15 school that is one of the few T15 schools with a bit of party reputation. (I can think of two such schools, others can chime in)

Here's the deal OP: in 2023-24, the kids who've killed themselves for 6-8 straight years to gain admission to a very top school ... are not partiers. The student bodies of _today's_ Cornell or Penn or JHU or Vanderbilt are packed to the rafters with striving, achievement-driven 20 years olds. It's really difficult to maintain the life of organic chem/original research/programming while getting loudly sh!tfaced drunk several nights a week

Do some kids at my kid's top school party, sometime? yes, according to DS, but not in enough numbers to affect the overall somber, serious, driven vibe in the residential halls and after-hours campus.

Ooof. Sounds a bit depressing. Somber? Not to romanticize the “old days,” but…high achieving kids used to know how to cut loose & have fun.

Kids do at most schools including t20 schools. But premed/engineering/cs majors cannot is that 4 days a week and so we’ll. They do it one day of weekend and spend the rest getting shit done. It was that way 30 years ago—you just didn’t know kids with serious majors

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I'll preface with "T25 party school" is not at the same level as a true party school. T25 will still have a heavy dose of studying. And I would think all T25 schools have a large community for a person not interested in the party scene. My list would include Duke, Vandy, Dartmouth, Georgetown, USC and given their size and sports culture - certainly segments of Michigan and UCLA.

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Dartmouth

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore, Haverford, Chicago, MIT. Schools that have a certain “serious student” vibe.

+1 Chicago and Swarthmore would be the schools I would think to target to avoid party scene.

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Speaking from personal experience, those kids at MIT party hard. Very much a work hard party hard mentality there.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking from personal experience, those kids at MIT party hard. Very much a work hard party hard mentality there.

This is a very small sample of 2 (myself and an MIT friend) but when I was in college in Boston, invitations to my friend's parties at his MIT fraternity was a frequent occurrence. His fraternity had super bright guys (many who felt like they weren't bright with all the competition) who have gone on to do amazing things.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

OP said top 25.

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Anonymous wrote:Smaller schools in exurban/rural locations have few distracting people around.

But Dartmouth!

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

OP said top 25.

Shockingly UVA is number 25

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth

the drunkest people I've ever met in my life were both Dartmouth alums. i can't believe how much alcohol they were able to consume. their eyeballs were rolling around in their heads. Very successful, but I get the feeling that hard partying is very much part of the norm there, and this lasted into their 20s, when I saw this event happen.

I have lots of MIT people in my life (husband, best friend, her husband, and all their friends). They did "party" in a sense -- had parties on the weekends and they had fun, sometimes the chemistry nerds cooked up bizarre drugs to try, etc -- but a few of them didn't drink at all until age 21, they had amazing grades, all went on the grad school, and they cared about their work, a lot. I don't think it's a place where people lose themselves in the party scene.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re all party schools really. Maybe if your child can live at home they can avoid it, but that is pretty much the only way.

What an ignorant post.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

OP said top 25.

Shockingly UVA is number 25

Mistakes were made.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA

OP said top 25.

Shockingly UVA is number 25

Mistakes were made.

Once again, the people on this board always say "oh yeah the UVA boosters are OUT of control" and never take responsibility for their own constant taunting. UVA is ranked #25 and yet several posters have to make snide comments about that. Take responsibility for your own rabble rousing and taunting people. People in glass houses as they say.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA

OP said top 25.

Shockingly UVA is number 25

Mistakes were made.

Once again, the people on this board always say "oh yeah the UVA boosters are OUT of control" and never take responsibility for their own constant taunting. UVA is ranked #25 and yet several posters have to make snide comments about that. Take responsibility for your own rabble rousing and taunting people. People in glass houses as they say.

It falls in and out of top 25. Calling it top 25 is a bit of a joke because of that. Stop being so insecure about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, UVA is in the top 25. So there's that.

+1

And. yes, while a top 25 and the no 3 public in the nation, I just want to throw in that there is zero need to join a frat or sorority at UVA and drink your brains out every weekend. All of those activities are off campus. DS decided he wanted nothing to do with frats and never sat foot in one so it can be done. He was and is a serious sudent.. GGreek involvement is only 26 of the campus/. The rest do something in the other 900 clubs UVA has or just hang out with their people.