Everywhere has an active party life. And self reported student surveys are essentially meaningless. Especially when it’s a decimal point difference between number 5 and number 50.
Publisher and Merc. Unless we experience each school ourselves and in the same exact environments it is literally impossible to verify or quantify your assertions. They maybe correct directionally but they are opinions without any factual basis.
I have never known a student from bucknell or Lafayette. Literally. I did see one nice and studious looking young woman with a bucknell sweatshirt in the airport a few weeks ago Pretty preppy and clean cut kid from what I could tell.
Bucknell also has a nice reputation. So hard to see the kids doing so well in a tough academic environment if they are getting bombed every night and smoking from a bong all day.
This is all marginal stuff. As a non drinker it is 100 percent possible to attend every party available and not have any alcohol. No one cares. And Netflix is nice way to unwind too. Choices and options at all schools.