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Old 07-28-2008, 06:02 PM
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Old 07-28-2008, 06:33 PM
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I have never heard of Birmingham-Southern College.
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Old 07-28-2008, 06:45 PM
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I have never heard of Birmingham-Southern College.
I didn't know about BSC until their bid lists were posted on GC one year.
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Old 07-29-2008, 02:19 PM
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I have never heard of Birmingham-Southern College.
It was a big feeder for my high school, and usually 3-4 kids a class (out of an average of 40 seniors) went there. I think everyone from my town joined one sorority there. I think back in the late 90s, 65-80% of the campus went Greek?
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I do not appreciate their listing UF as the number one party school. I knew I was going there for sure- yet people tried to dissuade me from it due to this. If you do not want to party at UF, you certainly do not have to.
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I do not appreciate their listing UF as the number one party school. I knew I was going there for sure- yet people tried to dissuade me from it due to this. If you do not want to party at UF, you certainly do not have to.
Get over it.
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Old 07-28-2008, 08:50 PM
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I do not appreciate their listing UF as the number one party school. I knew I was going there for sure- yet people tried to dissuade me from it due to this. If you do not want to party at UF, you certainly do not have to.
Oh, for God's sake, Scandia. Seriously? Seriously? You don't appreciate their listing UF as number one? I doubt they give two shits.

And, what does it matter if your school is ranked one in partying or number of lepers? Anyone who has any brains knows that not everyone parties at party schools.

BUT, heck yeah, Ole Miss. Way to go both in % of Greeks and partying!
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Old 07-28-2008, 09:23 PM
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Oh, for God's sake, Scandia. Seriously? Seriously? You don't appreciate their listing UF as number one? I doubt they give two shits.

And, what does it matter if your school is ranked one in partying or number of lepers? Anyone who has any brains knows that not everyone parties at party schools.

BUT, heck yeah, Ole Miss. Way to go both in % of Greeks and partying!
These posts made me laugh.

Carry on.
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Old 07-29-2008, 12:09 PM
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I do not appreciate their listing UF as the number one party school. I knew I was going there for sure- yet people tried to dissuade me from it due to this. If you do not want to party at UF, you certainly do not have to.
Seriously?
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:00 PM
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So we all know what colleges have the highest percentages of greeks. Some of these you may not be surprised about, but there were a couple that definently took me by surprise.
But this is what students told the Princeton Review:

1. Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, Ala.)
2. Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.)
3. Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.)
4. Transylvania University (Lexington, Ky.)
5. University of Mississippi (University, Miss.)
6. Penn State -- University Park (University Park, Pa.)
7. DePauw University (Greencastle, Ind.)
8. Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Va.)
9. Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.)
10. University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)
I'll give them UF, Wofford, Ole Miss, DePauw, and Penn State...

But where in the world is Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, etc?

Or Hampden-Sydney?
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:36 PM
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I'll give them UF, Wofford, Ole Miss, DePauw, and Penn State...

But where in the world is Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, etc?

Or Hampden-Sydney?
just a guess, but i imagine that a lot of this is based on the percentage of students that go greek.
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:58 PM
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just a guess, but i imagine that a lot of this is based on the percentage of students that go greek.
It's not though.

Wake Forest is somewhere between 40% Greek and Penn State (according to Wikipedia which we all know is a wealth of boundless information) is at 12%.
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Old 07-28-2008, 08:02 PM
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just a guess, but i imagine that a lot of this is based on the percentage of students that go greek.
Not really. Princeton review is mostly based on student surveys. When I was at W&L, there was this campaign by the administration to get "model students" to respond to the Princeton review surveys in order to get W&L's ranking as a party school decreased. I think we were also high on the Beer, Hard Liquor, Conservatism, and Party Schools lists at that time. So they wanted us to respond to the surveys that we weren't those things, I guess. Looks like it may be working because we aren't on the Hard Liquor, Beer, Party Schools, or Greek Life list this year. HA.

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I'll give them UF, Wofford, Ole Miss, DePauw, and Penn State...

But where in the world is Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, etc?

Or Hampden-Sydney?
I can understand why Texas isn't on it. Depending on who responded to the surveys. Alabama is ridiculous. It's ridiculous that Hampden-Sydney isn't on there. Same goes for W&L for that matter. I'm actually sort of upset W&L isn't on the Greek Life one. Stupid.
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Same goes for W&L for that matter. I'm actually sort of upset W&L isn't on the Greek Life one. Stupid.
I was surprised W&L wasn't on there too. Didn't you guys make the Greek Life list every year for years now?
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Old 08-01-2008, 10:13 AM
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Not really. Princeton review is mostly based on student surveys.


I read somewhere that each school has something like 360 students take the survey. In big schools like Georgia or Texas, that seems a bit silly to me as you'll most likely not get the whole picture because you're only surveying like .01% of the student body--but where as if you are at somewhere like wofford where there are only about 1,300 kids, thats more like surveying 30% of the school...personally, i think if they really want people to view their surveys and take them to heart, they should probably make the number of students they survey proportional to the amount of students at the school.
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