Penn State Dethrones Florida as Top Party School

Penn State has knocked the University of Florida from its No. 1 spot … atop the Princeton Review’s “Best Party School” list. Each year, the Review ranks schools in a huge number of categories based on surveys of their students. A Penn State spokeswoman called it a “popularity contest,” among students. “The results are not connected to reality,” she tells the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. But here are some winners anyway:

• Happiest students: Brown University
• Best food: Virginia Tech
• Is It food?: US Merchant Marine Academy
• Stone-cold sober students: Brigham Young University
• Reefer madness: University of California-Santa Cruz
• Most politically active: George Washington University
• Jock school: Clemson University
• Dodgeball targets: Sarah Lawrence College
• Most religious students: Thomas Aquinas College  
• Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smoking vegetarians: Bard College

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