Neighbors movie party

In the real world, every person tends to have a very different high school and college experience. If you happen to live in a movie, however, everyone's school experience is almost guaranteed to include one thing: a ridiculous, probably life-changing party.

In honor of students everywhere gearing back up to hit the books this fall, FandangoNOW held a survey to find out fans' top 20 party-school movies.

Check out the results:

The Top 20 “Party School” Movies:

1. American Pie

2. Pitch Perfect

3. Neighbors

4. Monsters University

5. National Lampoon’s Animal House

6. National Lampoon’s Van Wilder

7. Accepted

8. Dazed and Confused

9. Superbad

10. Revenge of the Nerds

11. Old School

12. Road Trip

13. The House Bunny

14. Project X

15. Back to School

16. School Daze

17. Can’t Hardly Wait

18. Dear White People

19. Everybody Wants Some

20. College

But wait, that's not all!

While it's always fun to make lists of favorite movies, Fandango is also hosting a back-to-school “Cash for College” Sweepstakes, with the chance to win $10,000 towards higher education, and a year’s worth of movie tickets and movies at home via FandangoNOW. Pretty fantastic, right? Further details and official rules are at the "Cash for College" site

For good luck, we leave you with this video mash-up of memorable school parties, and this list of classic school movies that are just a click away from watching via FandangoNOW.