Amherst College Top Questions

That everyone's white and rich.

Jocks, WASPy, generally good looking

awkward. preppy/rich.

There's the idea that the "old Amherst" is still alive and kicking- the white, wealthy, male and conservative people/ideals. The other idea (quite the opposite from the first) is that everyone here is uberly liberal.

The school is stereotyped to be very cliquey, preppy, wealthy, snobby, arrogant, and liberal.

Amherst College: rigorous academics, strong athletics, liberal student-body, small Amherst Students: smart, liberal, athletic, white/preppy

I have heard a range of stereotypes. Some people think it is all super rich kids. Others think that it is a bunch of crazy hippies. I have also heard that Amherst is a huge party school and that it is a bunch of super brainy nerds.

We are generally seen as really preppy and cocky, and politically very liberal.

That they're preppy, rich, and act entitled to everything they've gotten in life.

They are workaholics who do nothing but study all the time.

Amherst is academically rigorous. Amherst students are very focused on academics.

Well, a lot of people seem to think everyone on campus is a genius, and in some cases that's true, but really we're just a campus of people who are willing to work and study. Another stereotype is that we're really bad at relationships.

Preppy. Nerdy

Students are said to be pretentious, rich, ugly, awkward, really hard working, mostly white, unfriendly. There are stereotypes about athletes and various other catagories of people that pretty much fit the common conception.

the smart jock and the nerd (and they don't interact)

They are rich and preppy, and they are not intellectually motivated.

People think that we are all elitist and upper-class white kids, that we all got in here because of old money.

Rich, spoiled

People generalize students as "rich white kids", with polo shirts and popped collars and parents who pay for vacations in Europe.

Smart, cocky, sense of entitlement