Amherst College Top Questions

stuck up, rich, white, smart

Amherst students are highly studious over-achievers without a sense of fun, stuck in a town where there's little to do and nowhere to go.

elitist? wealthy?

They're preppy, rich, snobby and teach people the valuable lesson that the corrupting materialism of our society reaches all races and religions.

Stereotypes: Smart Jocks, Girls arent that pretty, girls go on the fro-yo diet(freshman 15), professors are cool

Amherst college is seen as an aloof elite institution with a very challenging academic life. The students are all supposedly exceedingly wealthy, high achieving, exceedingly intellectual, and driven. While the president works hard to spread a new image of social and economic diversity, we are seen as a very preppy homogeneous group.

Preppy, rich, up-scale, whiny, pampered...you get the idea there. Aside from that (being the majority of the stereotypes) there is also the image of bookish, unsocial, pencil-pusher that Amherst has.

Academic

Stereotypes of Amherst students generally say the students are socially awkward, preppy, rich, cliquy, and over achievers.

that they're all rich preppy kids trying to seem intellectual and laid back.