Bryn Mawr College Top Questions

The stereotypes are numerous and disheartening. They all showcase the college at its perceived worst. Some stereotypes are: Everyone's a Lesbian. By proxy, everyone hates men. We're all Feminazis that go around unshaven. Either that, or everyone's a rich snob. Everyone's catty because it's a woman's college. Those are all the primary ones.

That Bryn Mawr is filled with a large number of gay and bisexual students and has a pretty terrible social scene.

That we are all lesbians or socially awkward anime freaks or uptight, type A, homework nazis.

Some positive stereotypes are that Bryn Mawr students are passionate, independent and and intelligent women with a deep desire to make an impact on the world. Some negative stereotypes are that Bryn Mawr is an unwelcoming place that hates men. People think that all of the students are desperate for male attention and have no social lives, and lack social skills.

It is a strongly feminist school with many gay students. Bryn Mawr is a place where students are serious about academics. The school is like a cult because there are unique traditions, including a form of "freshwoman hazing" and the wearing of long black robes while singing with colored lanterns. Bryn Mawr women are strong, independent, and confident.

The most pervasive stereotype about Bryn Mawr students is that we are all lesbians. Bryn Mawr College as a whole is known to be academically rigorous.

Intellectual, empowering women, full of lesbians, strong-willed students, very actively liberal, dedicated to improving the world

bi and large, bryn mawr girls are bi and large. the odds are good but the goods are odd. we study all the time.

Within the Tri-Co, some of the guys think Bryn Mawr students are promiscuous and/or lesbians. Most, but not all of the Havergirls and Swat girls are territorial and feel as if we're infringing on their limited resources of males.

Well, some stereotypes about us are that we are completely feminists (as in man haters lol, ...and other things), no social life, one that I actually like is that we are 'go getters'!

A lot of surrounding schools think that Bryn Mawr is a school full of freaks. I don't think that 'freaks' is necessarily the right term to use. There are a lot of very individual women here--I think that as a strong womens' college, part of the appeal is that you can be as unique as you'd like to be. It's obnoxious when people from Haverford or Swarthmore automatically peg you as that weird Bryn Mawr girl who runs around with a cape on. Not all of us are like that. However, within the school's boundaries, you can definitely see a lot of stereotypes. You have the rugby girls, who are more often than not are partiers that date at least two of their teammates. You have the capies, who play Quidditch and spend their meals discussing anime. There are a lot of groups, and, for me at least, it's hard to really relate to any of them.

That we are all liberal lesbians.

I think there's a stereotype here of work hard, play hard, and the idea that we're all incredibly driven women. There's also this (relatively unfounded) stereotype that women at Bryn Mawr are here because they dislike men; totally untrue!