Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Matt Swayne, author of America's Haunted Universities. How do students pick the university they’ll attend? Usually, it’s a matter of reputation. Some students seek schools with solid academic reputations; other students want to be part of a university with great athletics. Another group—probably a group that’s larger than we want to believe—wants to attend a school that knows how to party. If you want to go to a school with a great academic tradition, you can find dozens of lists that rank schools according to their academic reputations. For athletics, just visit the latest national champions in the sport of your choice.