Some students may have heard Playboy's infamous quote that Penn State was not part of the magazine's top party-school rankings because it's unfair to rank professionals against amateurs.

Either that quote isn't true, or Penn State has dropped from the professional ranks, as the university rolled in at No. 13 on the magazine's 2009 rankings, which were released earlier this month.

Playboy assistant editor Rocky Rakovic said there is an "urban legend" around the Playboy office, saying the quote was given to disgruntled schools who didn't make the list.

Penn State has never been officially ranked and can only boast two honorable mentions in the 1987 and 2002 rankings.

The rankings were determined by the collective scores, out of 20, in given categories: bikini, sex, campus life, sports and brains.

Since Penn State did not make the top 10, its individual scores were not listed.

Despite appearing on the list for the first time, some students still aren't happy about how low Penn State is in the rankings.

"I'm pretty disappointed," said Jason Shorr (junior-marketing). "I thought we would do a lot better because of our rankings with the Princeton Review."

The Princetown Review has a different ranking system compared to Playboy. Their categories include consumption of beer, consumption of hard liquor, drug consumption, hours at study outside the classroom and the popularity of sororities and fraternities.

The Princeton Review ranked Penn State as the No. 3 party school for 2008-2009.

Shorr, a Playboy campus representative for Penn State, said he was asked to fill out a survey while the magazine was determining its rankings.

He said he was surprised Penn State was not ranked higher because it is a member of the Big Ten and known to be one of the best tailgating schools in the country.

Other students shared a similar state of shock.

Jennifer Roth (sophomore-accounting) said she thinks the school should have high rankings, especially in the categories of sex and campus life. She said it is common to walk into stores around State College and immediately see a condom display.

"They are basically persuading us to have sex," Roth said.

She said she would give Penn State a score of 16 in the sex category. As for campus life, she said a score of 19 is appropriate because of the high number of bars and involvement of greek life.

Chrissy Castellano (junior-psychology) said Penn State should also have a high campus-life score.

"I'd give it the highest rating possible for the fact you'd have a hard time finding a night where you couldn't find something to do," Castellano said. "There are a plethora of bars, clubs and liquor stores."

Meagan Foulk echoed the sentiment.

"Our town is a bar," Foulk (junior-accounting) said. "Even the Ohio State riot was just one giant party downtown."

According to the Playboy article, its top party school rankings will become an annual event.

Shorr said he urges students to become a member of PlayboyU.com and fill out the surveys and post blogs, pictures and videos because they are all taken into consideration when creating the ranking.

"The more Penn State people we have on the site, the higher we'll be ranking," he said. "It will be a popularity contest."