Ed Felten is excited that Princeton ranked #22 on Seventeen Magazine’s list of 100 Coolest Colleges. I was quite surprised to find my alma mater, Rice University, ranked #1.
Rice is a fantastic school and I had an incredible experience there, but the first item on Seventeen’s list of desirable qualities “From frat parties to professors’ involvement, from campus safety to great shopping,” is not a possibility at Rice, since Rice does not allow for the existence of social fraternities on campus. This is a good thing. Instead, Rice has a residential college system that Rice’s first president Edgar Odell Lovett wisely borrowed from Princeton.
I wonder if the writers at Seventeen Magazine researched the Night of Decadence party?