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BU will sometimes get a stereotype of liberal, hipster, or ivy wannabes. The student body is very diverse though and cannot be grouped as one whole with such a variety of students.

Snobby rich girls Self-centered frat boys BC rejects

I'm not really sure what the stereotype. I think too many students go to BU for there to be any one stereotype. Lots of rich, snobby girls. A large Jewish population. Gay boys. That's what I would think outsiders think of when they think of BU

Rich. Apathetic. Fashion-conscious. Ivy-league or BC reject.

Rich, snobby, ugg wearing-blackberry using-northface clad-bun bearing rich girls, fratty, mostly girls.

That they are snobby and preppy girls, and douchey frat boys. School of management students are stupid, but communications majors are even dumber..

They're not as smart as BC kids or other Boston area schools, there are few African-Americans (this is true), it's an all girls school (this is also almost true with an over 60-40 ratio)

I sometimes ran across the stereotype that all BU students are extremely wealthy - an understandable assumption based on the high tuition prices. However, I come from a middle class family with a modest income. It was with hard work and scholarships that I attended BU.

We're rich, no one gets financial aid, College of General Studies students are dumb, we have no campus (and thus no school spirit), the stacks in the library are great for sex.

Many consider BU to be the "strip mall of America", and thus are disgusted by the fact that there is no real campus.

Spoiled ditzy rich kids. Good academic reputation.

BU students are sterotyped as rich. BU is sterotyped as an ivy-league-reject school

I wasn't aware that it was a stereotype until a couple of my co-workers(who don't go to BU) made a comment to me about it, but apparently girls at BU are stereotyped as party-going ditzes. I've also heard that BU is composed of kids who didn't get into their top-choice schools.

There are a variety of ster

BU students are nerds

The stereotypical BU student is rich, white, and ignorant. They drive BMWs and feel entitled. The girls use Comm Ave as their runway to show off thousand-dollar outfits, the boys are into expensive drugs. Nearly everyone is pretty smart -- honestly you won't get in if you haven't any brains -- but a lot of these wits are wasted on laziness.

They all wear giant sunglasses, are rich, and seem to constantly do homework without getting anything done. They're obnoxiously preppy.

Rich Kids

There are numerous stereotypes. 1. The people who think that they should have got into a better school and are thus to good to be here. Typically marked by bitterness. 2. The CGS kids... thought by most to be mental midgets. 3. Hipsters... tons of them. They are everywhere riding their fixed-gear bikes and smoking Camels. 4. Everyone in this school is rich. Probably mostly true. 5. Everyone in BU is from New Jersey. It is seriously frightening how many people from BU are from New Jersey. 6. Fashion conscious. BU tries to spread the myth that BU students are really hip and like fashion. It is probably true, but it got a lot of BU students rather riled up. 7. Tons of foreign students. They wear even more expensive clothes than BU students and smoke more cigarettes, typically Marlboro Lights.

That they are rich and apathetic