SubtleDig has released the Law School Party Rankings, which attempt to measure the “quality of life” of the Top 100 (102 with ties) law schools in the 2010 U.S. News Rankings.  Here are the Top 10 and Bottom 10 (“where fun goes to die“) party law schools:

Party School Rank	School	U.S. News Overall Rank
1	Arizona State	56
2	Tulane	45
3	Seattle	77
4	Florida State	52
4	Arizona	43
6	Virginia	10
7	UC-Berkeley	6
8	Michigan	9
9	Arkansas-Fayetteville	94
10	Alabama	30
10	Harvard	2
93	Utah	45
93	American	45
95	Pennsylvania	8
96	Rutgers-Newark	87
97	SUNY-Buffalo	85
98	Houston	59
98	Seton Hall	77
100	Brooklyn	61
101	DePaul	87
102	Baylor	65

Other rankings include:

• Most and Least Happy law student bodies
• Most and Least Alcohol Consumption among law student bodies
• Most and Least Dateable law student bodies
• Most Nights Spent Out
• Party Ranking Among the Top 14 Law Schools

Here is the methodology used in the rankings:

• Surveys (90%).  We spammed current law students with a “Please take our survey” email. We considered using the amount of responses per school as a factor in the rankings, as students with enough free time to answer such a frivolous email probably deserve recognition, but we were concerned about punishing schools for spam detection. If any school had a low response rate, we dispatched campus reps to directly collect survey answers. Every survey contained five questions from each of the four categories below (20 questions total.)
  • General Happiness Questions:  These questions attempted to gauge the respondent’s personal happiness level and the general campus happiness level. There seemed to be some correlation between job security and happiness, given the strong performance of many top schools.
  • General “Go Out” Questions:  These questions were divided between personal “going out” rates and general campus “going out” rates. Most respondents believed they went out more than their peers.
  • General Alcohol/Drug Consumption Questions:  Three questions on each survey were dedicated to alcohol consumption (both personal and campus-wide), and two questions were dedicated to drug consumption (both personal and campus-wide.)
  • General “Dateable” Questions:  These questions were the most diverse. One question was devoted to each of the following: attractiveness, douchebagginess, bitchiness, “just friends”-iness, and personal dating success.
• Alcohol Access Value (10%).   Based on the amount of bars and liquor stores within a one-mile radius of the law school. This category benefited schools located in large metropolitan areas.