<p>Any top university with a strong undergraduate culture is going to be a “smart party school”. That includes the following schools:</p>
<p>Boston College
Brown University
Claremont McKenna College
Colgate University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (believe it or not, those nerds know how to have fun)
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Williams College</p>
<p>I know I am missing many and I realize that many of those are not within reasonble driving distance from NJ, but those are a few that come to mind.</p>