Colgate University Top Questions

Preppy, Smart, Conservative

All students are severely chronic alcoholics and party-goers. Hooking up is Easy at Colgate... partially because there's nothing else to do.

Rich preppy new england prep school kids

I think Colgate is seen as a fairly conservative, small school for rich, preppy kids. I'm sure there are other stereotypes about other aspects of Colgate life, but that one sums it up pretty well.

People consider Colgate to be a predominately white upperclass, preppy student body who work really hard but also love to party. People think that we are in the middle of nowhere with nothing else to do besides drink and that everyone knows each other which makes it sort of like a high school.

Rich, white & preppy. Ostensibly true as a large portion of the student body does fit these criterion. Other sterotypes include everyones favorites "dumb jocks", nerdy theater kids, degenerate frat-stars, and of course the sizable jap scene.

Rich, good-looking, J.Crew-wearing, noses-high preps was the stereotype I had heard and was terrified of. Also that there is not a lot of diversity and nothing to do if you don't drink.

That Colgate is a preppy school for rich white kids.

There are some very strong stereotypes about Colgate students that they are rich, white and mostly spoiled.

Prepry partiers. We work hard and party hard, yet school is the priority.