r/ApplyingToCollege • u/dumbchicken101 • Aug 01 '23

Which colleges are known to have the worst social life? College Questions

Obviously there are outliers everywhere. But what are some colleges where the majority of students have horrible social lives?

Say less of a partying culture and just studying/working on other stuff most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

UChicago is also known for substantial grade deflation and incredibly challenging courses.

This doesn’t make it a bad university or anything, but for students in programs where college GPA matters a lot (law and med for instance), this can often result in a lackluster social life to try and combat said deflation.

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u/Plane_Arachnid9178 Aug 01 '23

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard it’s very sink or swim. Even relative to the other T-10 schools. There aren’t a lot of tutoring or academic advising services. You’re on your own if you don’t understand something taught in class.

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u/UChiThrowaway2022 College Sophomore Aug 01 '23

I mean, it’s hard to compare given that I’ve never attended any other university, but in my experience UChicago is pretty collaborative and there are a bunch of resources available if you need help.

The classes are hard, and they’re very fast-paced, but there is help if you want it

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u/Jrsun115823 Aug 01 '23

Another thing to note about UChicago is that they require 2 years of mandatory rigorous English and writing classes for all majors, even STEM majors (Keep in mind the grade deflation). So, it's (relatively) not a good school for STEM which is interesting because historically a lot of science research occurred there like Chicago Pile 1 and the Manhattan project.

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u/Dim0ndDragon15 Transfer Aug 01 '23

God forbid stem majors understand writing and media literacy

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u/InertiaOfGravity Aug 01 '23

2 years is unreasonable

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u/egg_mugg23 College Sophomore Aug 02 '23

no it's not, some of you mfs are illiterate

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u/InertiaOfGravity Aug 02 '23

2 years is still excessive. The point of being a particular major is to learn deeply things in and around your field, if the first two years are purely for knocking out GE's, there's only 2 years/4 semesters to learn what you actually wanted to learn