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UPenn the only Ivy on the list 

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Sometimes I feel like I made the wrong choice and should've just lived it up at one of these places and recruited at the top of the pack while having more of a wild social life. Then again things worked out so I guess I can't complain too much. 

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not sure about IB per se, but isn't it a fairly good school all things considered? It's one of the 8 original public Ivies

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Why are Maine and Howard on this list

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Barstool needs to do a better job tying out their party school rankings - the twitter has a different version that looks like they just added in some random ass schools for some reason like BYU and Liberty (plus Blue Mtn State): https://twitter.com/BarstoolU/status/1507010040355438592?ref_src=twsrc%…

Also how do you misspell "San Diego" but get "Cincinnati" correct?

 

Their goal is to get clicks/shares, have people discuss / argue. It literally doesn’t matter what the rankings are as long as it pisses some people off and gets people talking

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It's all just a joke, look at their sources. They are always citing to places like "American National United Surveys" which would, of course, create the acronym ANUS. 

 

Unsurprisingly the nerdy non-target school I went to isn't on the list. 

Surprised to see UMass up there. Maybe because I've seen a lot of people have solid careers from there. Maybe a party hard/play hard school.

I'm familiar with one of the schools on this list and can attest it's a solid party school for sure. Won't elaborate because someone can probably easily find out which school I went to because I'm very close to their campus. The school definitely had an above average nightlife and their Greek Life were friendly to let guys in even if it threw off the guy/girl ratio.

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I'm somewhat skeptical.  Like what were the ranking metrics?  Did they use a clear rubric?  

Back in the day, I believe it was Playboy who would rank party schools and they used things like number of underage consumption citations, noise ordinance violations, DWIs, and so forth per capita.  It was quantitative.  

These days writers see a few racy pictures on insta and subjectively decide, "this school is the wildest." 

 

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