Amherst College Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Amherst College?

Tristan

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

Chelsea

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.

Terry

Preppy. Nerdy

Sasha

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.

Rebecca

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

Alexander

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

Red

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

Brett

Rich, spoiled

Dylan

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

Jack

Smart, cocky, sense of entitlement