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

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

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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.

The discussion here is about top 25 schools.

With UVA you have to carefully check every year since it is not really top 25.

That's utter BS.

It is absolutely not top 25 this year.

It’s in a tie,so you think you’re the expert?

UVA is top 28 at best this year. This UVA boosting is getting sad.

Pretty sure i know who is sad.

The delusional boosters.

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When I was at UC Berkeley, one thing I loved is that the school was big enough to really have a scene for everyone, and none of the scenes felt like they were excluding you. Want a party scene? Easy to find and they would welcome you. Want to make church friends who don't drink? Easy to find and they would welcome you. Want to hang out with board gaming kids? Easy to find and they would welcome you.

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

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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.

As others have said, the ability to find a crowd that doesn't party will be present at all T25 schools. None of the T25 will be a party school in the real sense....but some T25 have a well established history of having a strong partying crowd (Dartmouth for sure). Most big state schools with success in a high profile sport (football/basketball) will have this. (Berkeley lacks the "big sports" party potential.)

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

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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.

The discussion here is about top 25 schools.

With UVA you have to carefully check every year since it is not really top 25.

This year there are so many tied at #25 that it's essentially the same as T30 - but then again - who cares. The #25 schools are solid.

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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 b

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eing so insecure about it.

Sorry your kid didn't get in. If you had bothered to check before posting you woud have learned that UVA was no 1, 2, and 3 public in the entire United States over the last 15 years. Today it is no 3 with UCLA and Berkeley as 1 and 2 and MIchigan as 3.

UVA and University of Florida are directly adjacent in the rankings. Stop with the nonsense.

No they are not. UVA is 25. Then there is a big drop to: University of Florida, UNCCH and WAke Forest at all at 29.

UVA is in a four way tie for #25 so it is actually somewhere in the 25-26-27-28 spot. It is absolutely not top 25 this year haha.

As if something like this can be measured objectively to begin with. You can rank schools by number of enrolled students objectively. Once you start trying to give a general ranking, subjectivity is being applied. Even based on USNWR's methodology, the differences between UVA, UF, UNC, Wake, etc. are miniscule, probably within the margin of error of objective data points that are being applied with subjective weighting. (Meaning a strict ordinal rank should not be applied.)

I have no affiliation with Georgie Tech, so I can use it to illustrate another point. It is ranked down around 40 in the ranking. Yet for its typical student, who is interested in engineering and technology, it would very likely rate higher from that student's overall perspective than UVA, UF, UNC, or Wake, all other things like cost being equal. (These may be fine schools, but GT is stronger than any of them across the areas it focuses on.) Subjective criteria should be based on the prospective student's perspective, and not on what some guy at USNWR asserts.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is a lot more wild than I imagined it to be.

I think it is tamer than it used to be a long time ago. Events like Easters were out of control.

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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.

The discussion here is about top 25 schools.

With UVA you have to carefully check every year since it is not really top 25.

That's utter BS.

It is absolutely not top 25 this year.

It’s in a tie,so you think you’re the expert?

Don't forget the elite schools that dropped out if the rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is a lot more wild than I imagined it to be.

I think it is tamer than it used to be a long time ago. Events like Easters were out of control.

This is mostly for the better. UVA used to have the reputation being a school that had some respect for being selective and pre-professional (specifically for business), but not really for providing rigorous academics or a vibrant intellectual environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Dc is quieter, more introverted and trying to avoid these. Trying to put together an initial reach list.

I wouldn't worry, your introverted kid will stick to his one or two people anyway.

Who cares what others do in their free time!