I think that this is isolated to Christian colleges (because at other colleges, you can party in jeans).
For some reason, people really love having an excuse to dress up, gather in some random common room, pretend that it is an elegant club, and mingle about for a while in your fancy clothes. So far this year, we have had the following formal events: East Hall Ball, Baldiwn-Jenkins Mocktails Party (mocktails are cocktails that don't have alcohol in them), The Yule Ball, A Very Hipster Homecoming, and at least three other similar events whose names are totally slipping my mind. It's almost like we sit around saying "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we all got dressed up?"
So yes, when you come to college, bring some formal wear (gentlemen, if you have a three-piece suit, you will wear it), practice your British accent, and get ready to sulk in the irony of the fact that once the dancing starts, they switch the music from the elegant orchestration of preliminary gathering to the sleazy dance-club music featuring Ke$ha and Beiber. It's almost like everyone seems to think that unless you can appreciate a song when completely wasted then you cannot ever dance to it, even when sober. I'm still waiting for the swing-themed party that will actually play swing music and not trick you by playing swing music until everyone starts dancing and then switching to "sexy back".
Fingers crossed.
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