<p>I toured Clemson and loved it. I still have to look at College of Charleston, but don’t love its party school reputation. Anyone have any scoop on Clemson?</p>
<p>Every college has party animals, even at so called dry campuses. Most of the party animals are freshmen and some sophomores, who eventually wash out of college. Serious students at any university always…repeat ALWAYS rise to the top of the pack. Irrespective of where you attend college.</p>
<p>Clemson has a stronger academic reputation than CoC, but it also varies by program. While Clemson is known as an engineering, math, computer science and natural science bastion, it is also surprisingly strong in the liberal arts. </p>
<p>Its a great school and a fabulous value. (Much like NCState). People who attend Clemson have no love lost for Furman and USC students, and vice versa. You can play the field while you are perusing the campuses, but once you pick your school and get the gear, there is no going back.</p>
<p>I recommend it highly. But also recognize its not the only game in South Carolina or the south.</p>
<p>although both are respectable schools, I’d say Clemson has more of a party reputation</p>
<p>“Most of the party animals are freshmen and some sophomores, who eventually wash out of college.”</p>
<p>…that’s a little broad</p>
<p>rsx: No, not really. CoC is a bigger party school than Clemson. </p>
<p>anissa: broad? of course. There are party animals everywhere, at all levels. But most of the big time party animals flunk out, never finish, drag along, and overall…dont achieve. Its a generalization and there will be exceptions. But from what I know from my experience and that of my kid in college, the partying slows down quickly once those first set of grades comes out…either because the students go, “oh Krap! I’m gonna flunk out and my parents will kill me!” Or because Mom and Dad find out and lower the boom!</p>
<p>In other words, its immaturity. </p>
<p>My point was that serious students rise above that crowd and collect all the honors at graduation.</p>
<p>being interested in parties doesn’t automatically make a person immature, or not serious. that’s all i’m saying.</p>
<p>Clemson was definitely a fun place to go to school! I got an MArch there and I spent many long hours in the studio, but we still found time to enjoy ourselves. I remember when we played USC in the annual rivalry game they would print up bumper stickers that read ‘culture vs. agriculture’ ;-)</p>
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<p>Clemson doesn’t have a party school reputation as much as it did 5-6 years ago. As the school improves academically, it’s slowly shedding its reputation. Of course there are tons of wild parties at Clemson but it is no longer considered as much of a party school as a UF, WVU, Mississippi or Penn State</p>