College of Charleston Top Questions

Rich party animals, Emo's/Hippies, Slutty girls, and Lots of drugs

I have heard the following: everyone is needs to be in a frat/sorority to have fun everyone is country-club-like everyone is a laid-back, hippie surfer everyone drinks all the time everyone does not care about academics

CofC students are all one extreme or the other- either stuck up rich kids or hippie kids.

That everybody is either a preppy, fratty, popped-collars-and-pearls kinda person or a hippie

We are an All white campus. We are a Party school. C of C students are all from rich family's. We are so laid back if we were anymore laid back we would fall over. CofC has no school spirit.

That we like to party and drink a lot, we have little to no school spirit.

The most common stereotype is that all the students are huge partiers, we have a huge gay population, and that the school is easy.

The Southern frat boys who where pastel pants and look like they all went to the same barber and the Southern Sorority girls who are usually cute but love them frat boys too much. The overall middle-class white school kids, many from Ohio.

Upper Middle Class to Upper Class students (easy come, easy go)...college isn't at all what I thought it was going to be...ridiculously expensive. C of C is definitely a party school that has your typical "all-nighter types"

No school spirit. Like cliques.

People in and around the Charleston area know what to expect from C of C students. C of C upholds great education in a spectacular city. C of C is definitely a "frat" school. There are many ways to get involved in the school and community, great people, great places, great times.

All of the people who go here are girls who wear pearls. We go to the beach all the time.

Party people

The Princeton Review said that if CofC students were any more laid back, they would fall over. CofC is a liberal arts school that attracts an array of personalities. One of the biggest stereotypes of our school is that we are full of stoners, surfers, and sorority girls.

We party all the time

It is a party school Everyone smokes pot It has a high level of STDs

partiers. southern bells. preppy. laid back.

Hippie-ish kind of kids with a desperate need for boys

1. The girls are straight out of a Seventeen photo shoot: tall, thin, perfect, sorority blonds 2. Guys will be in college heaven because there are so many girls that they will be tripping over their Jack Rodgers to hook up with them. 3. C of C is a huge party school which requires no work. In fact the teachers have complete sympathy for students who are hung over, and give them an A just for getting out on the social scene.

That the College of Charleston is where the rich kids go to school.