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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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Old 07-28-2008, 08:35 PM
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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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