Carnegie Mellon University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Carnegie Mellon University?

Andrey

Nerdy, Geeky, and extremely uncommunicative. Also, physically unattractive.

Allison

A lot of people think CMU is full of nerds and that all we do is work.

Cassandra

1. We are all nerds who do nothing but study 2. There are no good looking people here 3. Life is boring (i.e. no parties) 4. Pittsburgh sucks because its always bad weather and there's nothing to do

Andy

Everyone assumes that all the students are nerdy, not that attractive, and don't go out and do fun things.

Nick

CMU students are nerds, don't go out, don't have fun

Amanda

We're all nerds who dont know how to have fun. All we do is study study study. Its not true.

Damian

Simply put, CMU students work way too hard.

Kelly

They are: Ugly, nerdy, workaholics and antisocial. This is mainly for technical/science majors.

Paige

CMU students are typically characterized as individuals without social ambitions, solely focused on and academics.

Cara

I think a big stereotype is the lack of social scene at CMU. Also, I think we are thought of as a big engineering and computer science school.