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It's college-ranking time. Of course, these rankings are about as scientific as a game of pin the tail on the donkey, but schools have a lot of fun learning about how other campuses see them. For example, the University of New Hampshire was named one of the top party schools. UNH is no West Virginia University, which appears to have abandoned the pretense of higher education altogether, but UNH was number seven on the party-hearty list.
The Princeton Review's "The Best 366 Colleges" doles out dubious achievement awards to several regional schools. Smith College is rumored to have "Dorms Like Palaces," and Hampshire College has the most "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians." Hampshire College students might retort that it is indeed possible to party in Birkenstocks. You just don't look that good doing it.
Wellesley came in 11th in the list of schools that are "Stone Cold Sober." Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering was also rumored to be pretty dry – it came in at 15 on the sobriety list.
In other listings, Harvard is "hottest for rejecting you," which shouldn't come as a shock. In fact, Harvard's reluctance to admit anyone is barely worth a line. It just seems like an excuse to connect Harvard with the somewhat salacious connotation of "hotness."
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there must have been a sick pool going among copy writers to get the words "Harvard" and "hottest" published in the same sentence.
For the record - that goofy Harvard "hottest for you" ranking didn't come from The Princeton Review but from Newsweek. The Princeton Review rankings aren't arbitrary: they're based PrinRev's survey of 120,000 students at the 366 schools in the book who reported on their campus experiences at them and rated their own schools. Go to www.princetonreview.com to see all 62 ranking lists and FAQs on how it's all done.
Olin has barely 300 kids, so there's probably very few fake IDs to go around.
What guest 2 said.
I never understood party schools. I usually had to endure long hours of drunken loudness and idiocy while trying in vain to sleep. Maybe if we actually spent our time doing serious work and not pissing away our education (that mommy and daddy are paying for) with hedonistic pursuits, America would be in a better state, intellectually.
Or maybe it's culturally ingrained that making a fool of yourself is acceptable?