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UPenn the only Ivy on the list
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.
Totally get where you are coming from. Like my wife went to one of the state schools on this list, paid a quarter what I did, probably had a lot more fun, and we make about the same now. That said, I do think I may have gotten "lost" at a big school and am pretty content with my life so to your point, suppose it's all OK.
Lol “my wife had more fun”, dude your wife was getting FUCKED.
just go to bars and clubs near a big school near you
Miami Ohio the highest school that is solid in IB.
Disagree. IU and Penn State are definitely higher.
Kelley is definitely better with their workshop but they’re 11
Lol Miami ohio is solid in IB???
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
UCSB is way too low on this list. Isla Vista is extremely fun
UCSB ++
UCLA --
USC +
Miami +
San Diego *** pls fix spelling Barstool
Why are Maine and Howard on this list
Bucknell over Ohio state, Texas, lsu, and Florida? Lol ok
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
Fuck fuck fuck it’s not tying out
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.
people pay $100-200k to party for 4 years and then work at McDonalds and pay the loans back for the rest of their lives.
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That is the more typical scenario from a student at an elite private school (NYU, Vanderbilt, etc.)
You’re not ending up at McDonald’s if you graduate from Vandy with a decent GPA in a useful major. Same with NYU.
Went to 2 public schools on this list and still ended up starting at GS out of college.
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.
Why isn't UC Santa Barbara #1? What happened?
they started studying
FSU represent
#3 is too low, can confirm
This guy fucks
The dumber the school the better the party
My username says it all
WVU and Miami are too high, LSU and Florida are too low. Everything else seems about right, except UCLA does not belong on this list, USC does.
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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