Carnegie Mellon University Top Questions

The girls are unattractive and tthe students have no social life.

About boys: the odds are good, but the goods are odd. We are all trapped behind books. The girls are a D+ Sex kills, coem to CMU and live forever

We are total geeks. We enjoy the company of computers to that of large crowds. Our parties are more likely to by LAN parties than keg parties.

Nerd, computer oriented, intelligent

That we're all a bunch of nerds that sit in dark rooms in front of our computer and play Counter Strike or WoW all day and night. That we're all really good students that study when we can tear ourselves away from the computer.

That CMU students are all CS majors without girlfriends and who never shower.

Everyone is Asian, ugly, smelly, and anti-social. All we do is study, there are no parties, and everyone is boring.

The stereotypes are that CMU is such a difficult school that students do not ever have a social life. CMU students are classified as nerds who just sit in there rooms and study all the time.

Nerdy, unwashed, insular virgins. Also, Korean students smoke a lot.

CMU students are supposedly geeky and antisocial. Many people think that there is no social scene at CMU and think that there are no parties or anything like that.

"CMU hot. That's like Pitt smart." CMU students are awkward socially and can't get girlfriends to save their lives.

That they're really competitive, not-fun, sit in their rooms all day and work, constantly stressed and don't sleep often because they have so much work. Drama majors are loud, CS majors are reclusive

Ugly girls, impossible academics, all asian student body, no partying or partiers, social hell

The biggest stereotype about CMU would be that we're all a bunch of nerds...even Bill Cosby told us that when he was the keynote speaker for Graduation in 2007. Another common stereotype is that CMU is known for requiring a lot out of its students when it comes to academics.

CMU is often stereotyped as extremely academically challenging and the students are thought of as nerdy and socially awkward introverts.

students are nerdy

incredibly nerdy and antisocial, cant hold a conversation with anyone but a computer

That they're antisocial, awkward, and all-around dorky.

Intelligent Diverse Nerdy

No social lives, weird, unattractive