Brown University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Brown University?

Jenna

That Brown is a "super-duper" liberal campus and most people are gay. Also, a stereotype is that a lot of the students are "hippies" and smoke pot 24/7.

Victoria

I am not aware of any.

Brett

Many students at Brown are stereotyped as being elitist and hyper-liberal, so much so that they resemble the closed-mindedness of the hyper-conservative.

Reese

We're pompus assholes. We're all hispters. We're all Harvard rejects.

Jerry

Liberal. Overly liberal. The only Ivy where kids are cool. Where homosexuality is somewhat common. Party Ivy.

Emily

we are hippies and all liberal

Caitlin

Quirky and awkward. I think there are about 5 different "I'm awkard" facebook groups. There's also I think a perception of kids here being very alternative, whether they're hipsters or granola-crunching hippies.

Eliza

People that don't attend Brown will say one of three things regarding student stereotypes. 1- Aren't there lots of hippies? 2- Isn't everyone just stoned all of the time? 3- Man, that school must be full of nerds.

Kyle

smart, but relaxed, free thinkers, hard workers, not as stuffy as the other ivies.

Rory

that we're the fun and more laid back ivy league students

Ben

Overly liberal. Hippie. Gay and gay-friendly. Laid-back. Down-to-earth.

Michael

Stereotype: everyone's a really chilled-out hippie Harvard reject who smokes pot and never does any homework unless they bought their way in, in which case they're probably really rich, famous, or mean. Either way, they still go to the crazy sex parties.

Gabi

That we are the cool/hippy ivy. There is an abundance of weed on campus.

Tate

Less uptight than the rest of the Ivies. Liberals. Stoners. WASPs.

Gregory

People say that Brown students are super liberal and out-there. Brown is often thought of as the joke of the Ivys becuase other Ivy Leauge students tend to be pretensious or stuck up. People think that anything goes at Brown.

Tessie

I've always heard that Brown was a rich kid's party school. It is also supposedly ridiculously liberal, pot included.

Maria

Many people think that Brown students are pot-smoking, tree-hugging, liberals who where Birkenstocks and stage protests all the time.

alex

Hippies and hipsters

Natasha

The generally held stereotype is that Brown students are all tree-hugging, pot-smoking, Brikenstock-wearing hippie liberals who take all their classes S/NC and frolic all day.

Royce

hippies, potheads, hipsters, very laid back