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The student body of Clemson can simply be described as friendly. Everyone is unified by our atheletics and the desire to learn. The freshman experience at Clemson is very unique in that it is not difficult to meet people. For an institution with more than 14 thousand undergraduate students the student body is suprisingly close-nit.

C-L-E-M-S-O-N! The students are happy, honest and hardworking. We work hard, party harder. The general population is preppy and well off, but there are some exceptions. For the most part students dress decently for class. Sweats are okay but girl sometimes dress nicer like a sundress and rainbows. Students are involved in EVERYTHING. Can't find something you like in the 300+ organizations we have? It is so easy to make your own! If there were four tables in the dining hall there would be... the jocks, the greeks, the future presidents with the MRS degree girls (maybe 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the girls at Clemson, most are really motivated and driven though) and then the pre-med/engineering who study all the time and can only eat and run back to the library! Even though we may have those 4 tables, there would be a TON of more tables (hopefully at Harcombe breakfast because it is AMAZING) and you would see a lot of interaction between those tables.

I'm really glad with the amount of Christian organizations on campus b/c I'm a Christian. There's so many to choose from and they are all good. I do Campus Crusade and love it. But there are so many other organizations as well. I am an RA and love telling incoming freshmen how many awesome and rare choices they have to choose from- we even have a high five club. I do wish that people of different races mixed more. There does still seem to be a division b/w black and white and that can be clear in the dining hall. People wear different things to class- some get showered and dressed even for 8:00 AM classes, others stay in their sweat pants and sweatshirts all day. Whatever you please. I think there's all financial backgrounds and people do not usually discuss this. I think there's more talk politically now which I like, especially with the elections. I think Clemson is predominitaly more conservative b/c of it's location but there's definitely liberals as well. I wish there were more manifestations but I think that's something missing in young people all over the United States.

Any student that doesn't fit into the mainstream culture would feel out of place at Clemson. I often feel out of place and I consider myself fairly up to date with things. Most students are white, southern, republicans and let you know how they feel about things.

For the most part the student body at Clemson wears polos and khakis. Most of the people dress real southern and conservative. Most people are always dressed casual but occasionally you will walk by someone looking spiffy. Again you have just about every group of people at Clemson so the students dont all look the same. From my experiences my freshman year I feel that everyone at Clemson seems to get along and most people are real friendly. Alot of people are from Charleston and these people seem to be the only ones that feel they are better than everybody else lol.

The Clemson students are from all over the country. In my dorm freshman year, there were people from Georgia, Texas, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and many other places. I was a bit surprised that there were as few South Carolina natives as there were, but it was a good surprise. Having people from all over the nation means that you can learn a lot from your friends, and if you feel like it, go visit them in the summer and see a new part of the country!

Involved, focused, intelligent, etc.

Like any large university, there are many types of students, many that defy classification. But there are many groups of like minded people, whether its politically motivated, religiously oriented or intellectually coherent, that draw distinct groups together. Though interaction between students is some what limited to who your hallmates are and what class you have, at least during meal time. You see a slew of economic levels here, from less affulent families having a first generation college student to more fiscally stable families who hold a long tradition of Clemson graduates in the family. And it has come up as to how much we will make, depending on whether we go to grad school or not and how the economy will get better or worse for the college educated.

The student body on Clemson is a little disjointed. The races at Clemson don't mix much or often. It is disappointing to think that people of all races can only come together when they are forced to.

Like I said Clemson has a really southern (conservative) student body. The stats about the percentage of out of state students are very misleading because a lot of kids are from like Georgia or Tennessee which is basically the same place as SC. Kids from the "North" are really kind of on their own. Never in my life had I been called a Yankee until I went to Clemson. The civil war is almost a daily topic of discussion, there's a lot of confederate flags around, and there are a lot of racists. I've lived in Maryland my whole life and I experienced some pretty big culture shock when I moved down there. The southern kids wear khakis and polos to class everyday, while the girls wear sun dresses most of the time. Again, if you're from a "northern" state you will be separated, but so will everyone else thats not southern, so it will be easy making friends with those kids. If you're looking for a school where it is all one big family Clemson is not the school for you. There is definitely a lot of separation between people from different backgrounds. The girls are hot though.