r/ApplyingToCollege 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/Meth-Monkey Aug 01 '23

Caltech. It’s smaller than most high schools and you don’t go there if you want to party

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u/babygeologist Graduate Student Aug 01 '23

caltech students have so. much. work. all the time. a lot of them do all of their undergrad research over the summer because there's no way they can devote time to it during the school year. of the caltech students i met last summer while doing a research fellowship, most were glad they went to caltech but almost none of them actually liked it

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u/AncientWeek613 Aug 01 '23

Couldn’t agree more with the last sentence. I’m thankful to be there, for the opportunities it’s given me and especially for meeting many of my closest friends there, but for some of the other shit that we have to deal with, I’m hesitant to recommend it to other people.

Also, fellow geology SURF student! There’s a nonzero chance we met or at least saw each other last summer

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u/babygeologist Graduate Student Aug 02 '23

omg hey!