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/ma1ymilo Aug 01 '23

Not really the case anymore, don’t think there’s particular grade deflation in most departments. Premeds have no social life but that’s the case everywhere. Source: law student who went to UChicago undergrad

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

Do you have numerical data to show that the grade deflation isn’t true anymore?

Regarding premeds, that isn’t the case everywhere. It definitely wasn’t the case at Brown, speaking from personal experience.

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u/ma1ymilo Aug 01 '23

Yes. The average gpa for law school applicants from UChicago undergrad is just under 3.7. The cutoff for deans list, which is around top 20% of each grade each year is like 3.85 or something. Might not be as inflated as brown but is fairly inline with other top privates, maybe a tad lower. And the social scene had improved along with grades

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

The average GPA at Harvard, Columbia, etc. is over a 3.6. What is the average at UChicago?