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Freshman Cally Stanphill wants to improve FAU — by winning the university a Playboy party.

“I want FAU to have that bragging right,” she said.

Stanphill made the top eight in Playboy‘s Hottest College Girl Contest, which ends on Oct. 22. The two who earn the most votes online will get a free party, Playboy spokesperson Steve Mazeika said.

He added that the parties, which will take place in December near the winners’ campuses, will include giveaways and be attended by a Playboy playmate.

As of Oct. 20, Stanphill was in second place — but she doesn’t think it’s because of her looks.

Instead, the nursing major said she lost a clicking war to Rachel Myers of Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg College, who was holding first place with 46 percent of the total votes as of Oct. 20.

When Stanphill got an e-mail from Playboy telling her she made the top eight, she ran to the computer lab on the first floor of the Heritage Park Towers dorm so that she could vote for herself on every computer, not realizing she could refresh the page and repeatedly vote for herself on her own computer.

She could tell Myers was voting for herself at the same time, she said. The two were neck-and-neck for first place till Stanphill got logged off. By the time she got back online, Myers was “way ahead” — where she’s stayed ever since.

Despite making the top two, Stanphill wishes she had more support.

She’s especially disappointed that her sorority — which she did not want named because they did not want to be associated with Playboy — wouldn’t support her as a group.

“I thought we were a family,” she said.

Stanphill explained that the photos she submitted to the contest were taken at a professional modeling shoot and that she entered the contest for a good cause.

“I don’t benefit from it,” she added. “I’m just doing it for FAU to get the party.”