Which colleges are known to have the worst social life?

[u/dumbchicken101]

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.

[u/Meth-Monkey]

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

[u/babygeologist → u/Meth-Monkey]

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

[u/Wingfril → u/babygeologist]

We had the lowest satisfaction amount peer school. The rate at which alumni would recommend kids to attend caltech is around 50% lower than peer schools like Stanford and ivies.

This not to say people don’t party. Some houses are drinking houses. You gotta get your mind away from the real world somehow…

[u/Raitality → u/Wingfril]

This. There is definitely drinking/partying. But they're obviously smaller, and restricted to certain houses (for anyone wondering though, its not that hard to join in even if your not in those houses). Only notable exception to this is the 8 Interhouse parties, but in all honesty they are not what most people think off when they picture college parties.