Colby College Top Questions

Rich partying preppies, some granola hippies

Homogeneous, preppy, athletic, drink a lot, preprofessional, etc.

Preppy white kids from Boston who work hard and play harder.

blonde, preppy, hyper-athletic, happy

crunchy pseudo hippies

The Colby classroom education is one of the best in the country. It is a predominatly jock and white school. Most kids are from 20 mins outside of Boston. The majority of kids who attend colby are rich and spoilt.

colby students are all white kids from outside of boston

That they are rich, pampered and ignorant.

Colby students have raided the Freeport outlets, managing to gracefully mix Mexicali Blues with J.Crew finds. The typical student is preppy, with flamming liberal tendencies, and enjoys spending time outdoors.

A stereotype of Colby is that everyone is a jock, and that everyone is preppy.

That we're all either preppy kids from outside of Boston or hippies who frollick outdoors all the time.

Friendly, kind, intelligent, fun-loving, energetic, preppy, upper-class, accepting

J Crew models from New England who were rejected by Middlebury, and hard core granola crunchers who want to save the world. We all party hard and are capable of winning the Ironman triathlon.

Everyone thinks that students at Colby drink a lot because there is nothing better to do on the weekends in Waterville, Maine.

Of the many characterizations of Colby, I think that one college guide summarized our image the best as "A JCrew catalog with a hangover." Aside from that I think that Colby brings with it the usual small liberal arts college stigma: a small, academically strong school largely inhabited with white kids who all live ten minutes outside of Boston.

Colby Stereotypes: Preppy Rich WASP bad Waterville relations

Rich. Privileged. Outdoorsy

Work hard, play hard[er]! Most people are from either twenty minutes outside of Boston or halfway around the world; Colby has drinking teams with sports problems; you're either preppy or crunchy; you carry a Nalgene and wear a North Face fleece and/or jacket...

i think that really depends on who you're asking. my friends from home seem to think that we're all mainers, that we have a lousy sense of style (which i have to admit that is relatively true), that we're all outrageously environmentally aware. i think that if you were to ask waterville residents that live near colby students, they'd call us loud or perhaps a bit rude while intoxicated. if you were to ask waterville residents that don't live near colby students, i think they'd call them kind hearted and relatively informed.

That it is extremely homogeneous (ie white, upper-middle class new englanders).