Bucknell University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Bucknell University?

Tommy

Bucknell is very frat oriented, lots of drinking and its really really white.

Michael

The students are rich and stuck up. A lot of Bucknell students come from affluent backgrounds, so there is the perception that a lot of them are here on their parents' dime and don't take their education seriously. Bucknell students also generally seem to be apathetic (or ignorant) about a lot of social and political issues.

Meg

People think that Bucknell is a preppy school populated by rich kids.

Devin

That they come from wealthy families, went to private schools, drive nice cars and mostly fit into a sorority girl/ frat boy stereotype. Also that most students very smart, and that the engineers work all the time.

Drake

Bucknell is known to be a gorgeous campus in a rural location with strong academic programs, especially engineering. Stereotypical Bucknell students are into themselves. They dress well and come from wealthy families. They know little about current events and care little about global issues. They're intelligent enough to get by partying and pulling all-nighters. They're driven to succeed and work hard to ensure future success.

Kris

The place isn't called the Bucknell "bubble" for nothing. Sure, there are some people who are aware of the outside world, but they're few among a sea of Ugg-wearing, Vera Bradley bag-toting sorority girls and backwards-baseball-cap-with-a-pencil-on-the-side, still-drunk-from-last frat boys. If you want a "stereotype," here's a good one: that all Bucknellians LOVE Bucknell. WRONG. Many of us are pretty smart, actually, but most are either too afraid to come out of our intellectually-enlightened closets or are too busy getting drunk 3 nights out of the week. Bucknellians, for the most part, are LOADED (house in the Hamptons, Westchester upstate-NY, etc). There's also, apparently, no diversity on the campus (and if there is, you hardly ever have a personal interaction with them unless you have class with them or REALLY seek them out). Oh, and that everyone joins a sorority or fraternity.

Michelle

That we're rich. They say Bucknell is a preppy school filled with rich, white kids who dress the same, act the same, talk the same. I've also heard Bucknell students called "career-oriented" as opposed to "academically oriented." Bucknell is known as "the Bubble" sometimes because people really don't know what's going on in the world. Students are often called apathetic.

Joe

As stated by a Mifflinburg high school kid, we are the rich-kid school. We all drive BMW's that our parents bought us for our sixteenth birthday, and we all wear matching North Face fleeces when the outside temperature is below 60 degrees. We study hard and play hard. Where else can you find a weekend that starts on Wednesday? The amount of time that isn't spent in the library or Dana Engineering is spent on Frat Road or nursing the consequences of the time spent on Frat Road.

Rebecca

study hard, party hard; Nerdy, preppy, rich; caught in the Bucknell Bubble

Quinn

That the people who go here are rich and party hard all of the time.