Colby College Top Questions

My classmates are super nice, preppy people with superiority issues.

Diversity is not one of Colby's biggest assets. Racial diversity has risen slightly the past few years but remains low. The majority of students here are from upper middle class or wealthy households, which is easily noticed by the amount of J.Crew/Polo/Vineyard Vines seen across campus. Students are politically aware and rush to rally around causes. The campus is overwhelmingly liberal, which can be a bit much if you don't share those beliefs.

If you go into waterville, you're taking your life in your hands. Everything on campus has very high security, because everything school related is hated by the townsfolk. Kids are okay, lots of preppies, lots of kids from Massachusetts, few minoritites, the handful of granolas.

Colby's student body is becoming more diverse every year, and noticeably so. Less that half of students, contrary to popular belief, come from New England, 8{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} are international, and more and more Colby is becoming more racially diverse as well. Colby students wear anything from a suit to a cape to class. But most settle for a t-shirt and jeans, and bundle in jackets come winter. A lot of students are politically active.

We are thought-inspiring, considerate, sharing of backed opinions, willingness to accept new ideas, caring, compassionate, respectful, and carry strong enthusiasm for learning.

My classmates are extrememly smart, grounded, and well-rounded students who work extremely hard and challenge themselves intellectually; however, they are not overly competitive with one another and do not obnoxiously showcase their intelligence.

colby's student body leaves much to be desired, but it is improving. like its new england contemporaries (middlebury, williams, bates, etc.), racial diversity is severely lacking. however, the college is taking broad steps towards fixing that and definitely recognizes it as a problem. other issues within the student body can be pinpointed in the arenas of a noticeably absent sense of universal political activism (there is an arguably potent portion that does make efforts to raise awareness and make an impact, but they are still only a percentage of the population here), appreciation of the opportunities on campus such as lectures, performances, etc., and the appalling socioeconomic discrepancy among students, which can be traced directly to the fact that colby college does not offer merit-based financial aid (my personal BIGGEST complaint about this school and greatest disappointment in it.)

Colby kids come in all different shapes and sizes but they all have their special somethings if you take the time to look.

Smart, studious, irresponsible

my classmates are kind, competitive, beautiful and active.