Bryn Mawr College Top Questions

People here are incredibly diverse in every way possible. Practically anyone can fit in at Bryn Mawr. The only people who wouldn't fit in are complete slackers who only care about grades or incredibly vocal conservatives.

Diverse, Confident, funny, audacious, friendly, supportive...you name it. Even though students are characterized with a wide range of characters, the students here are mostly sane.Therefore, you will expect little crazy scenes here on campus.

Bryn Mawr is an international community, and welcomes LGBT students with open-arms. We are conscious of all kinds of gender constructs and are constantly trying to educate ourselves and each other on issues of diversity. I come from a lower middle class family in New Mexico, and although I think a lot of Mawrters don't realize their economic privilege, I've never felt left out of anything because I don't have as much money. I met my closest friends during work-study as a freshman.

The women here are either very intelligent or make up abstract themes about a reading we are going over in class.

My classmates are kind, considerate, academically-oriented, liberal, feminist, open, intelligent, and honest.

quircky ecentric strong willed not afraid to dress or act how they want

It really is the people that make Bryn Mawr. For the most part, everyone is incredibly nice. People will literally go out of their way to help you, say, carry a box to your room or something. I also like that although we can pretty intense, everyone will totally wear sweatpants or pajamas to class. The social honor code means for the most part, people will respect each other's stuff and each other (although we are also known to be passive aggressive). One of the best things about Bryn Mawr is the Customs Program. Although dorms are all mixed (with all classes living together, which I really like), the freshman on a hall are grouped together with two Customs people, generally sophomores, who sort of guide them not just through the first week but through the whole year. I think of my Customs group as a family of sorts- like family some people will be your best friends and some people you won't necessarily get along with- but you are all kind of going through the same thing together. I love the community at Bryn Mawr, since everyone pretty much lives on campus all four years, I've made very close friends that I think my friends who attend other colleges or unis where the students live off campus missed out on.

They were the awkward one's in high school who came to Bryn Mawr College to succeed. Some are surprisingly dumb and some are extremely smart. Some really love this school and some really hate it. Most love it in the end because it has to do with psychology where you put a lot of input into something and you convince yourself you really like it. Honestly, I don't really mesh with the people at Bryn Mawr. I actually had to "change" myself to adjust to their personalities...not be myself.

Bryn Mawr is SOO accepting of sexuality and race! I've stumbled to class in pyjamas more times than i wish to recall... ok, im exxagerating... some people dress REALLY well. but for the most of it clean, comfortable jeans and pretty shirts/ sweaters. if all else fails, the bryn sweatshirt and jeans.

The student body is beautifully diverse, a real mosaic in everything but gender. All colors, all beliefs, all socio-economic levels are welcome on campus. If you are not open minded, this is not your school. If you want to learn from others and thrive in a diverse environment, you can hardly do better than Bryn Mawr. Students are politically aware, many are politically active, and there is a definite leaning to the left. The students I interact with the most, as a political science major but also as an athlete, are far more interested in the contributing to the greater good than how many digits their salaries will be one day. Mawrters are incurable humanists. This doesn't mean they all wear hemp and Birkenstock's; those are there, but right alongside J. Crew blazers and Banana Republic jeans. It's diverse, it's all diverse.