On Monday, the Princeton Review released its 2014 list of Top Party Schools. But TPR found that not every college student likes to party like Ke$ha. In fact, besides discovering the top party schools in the nation, TPR also found the top 20 “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians” schools.
In a voluntary survey on TPR’s website and distributed throughout various schools nationwide, 126,000 students were asked to describe their overall political persuasion on campus, overall drug use, the popularity of student government, the overall LGBT acceptance on campus, and how religious people are on campus.
Schools with less religion and more drugs and liberalism found themselves in the “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians” schools. But conservative schools with less tolerance for LGBT rights found themselves in the “Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution.”
The two category descriptions aren’t exactly accurate, however humorous. Instead, they stereotype and mischaracterize individuals involved in Rotary or DAR, assuming them to be straight-laced conservatives, and imply that liberals can’t be religious or involved in student government.
Check out the list below to see if, according to the Princeton Review, you should add Birkenstocks to your back-to-school wardrobe.
1. Bennington College
Bennington, Vt.
2. Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
3. Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, N.Y.
4. Reed College
Portland, Ore.
5. Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
6. Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
7. Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Ore.
8. Pitzer College
Claremont, Calif.
9. Emerson College
Boston, Mass.
10. Beloit College
Beloit, Wis.
11. New College of Florida
Sarasota, Fla.
12.State University of New York—Purchase College
Purchase, N.Y.
13. Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.
14. Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, Fla.
15. The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Wash.
16. University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
17. Warren Wilson College
Asheville, N.C.
18. Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colo.
19. Macalester College
St. Paul, Minn.
20. University of Vermont
Burlington, Vt.
You may want to trade in your Birkenstocks for Tory Burch sandals if you attend one of these Top 5 “Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution” schools: Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill.; Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.; Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich.; Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
