Each school surveyed is chosen because of some outstanding quality. Also, there is a cross section of schools, ranging from small private to large state schools from each state. The survey is compiled of seventy questions. Then a team from the Princeton Review contacts Union. Either a representative of the company comes to school, or they hire a student to sit in a high traffic area in the campus center.
Surveys are available at a table for students to fill out voluntarily.
The table is set up for eight hours on one day. Union's rank as number twenty in party schools, and the top five in beer and hard liquor were determined from 189 surveys that were filled out by Union College students. The information ranking Union in this year's lists is not as accurate as it could be. Union was surveyed over two years ago. The Princeton Review surveys about one third of the schools every year.