College of Charleston Top Questions

We are stereotyped as all hippies, surfers, and laid back cats. All the girls are beautiful and the guys are at a minimum.

That we are a huge party school. I came here because I liked the campus and the city and it was close to home, it wasn't until later that someone told my mom it was one of the top party schools on the east coast.

That it's a big party school is the only stereotype I remember..

big time partier - beach bums

That it's a party school and that is all that we do in Charleston. The sororities are known to be snobby.

Mostly girls, a party school...

I think the stereotype is that CofC students go out and party all of the time, since we go to school in such a urban setting. I think people assume that students who are involved in any kind of fraternity or sorority get trashed all the time and don't really work that hard in school. I feel that the stereotypes vary according to the age of the person holding those stereotypes, like a younger person (middle or high school) would probably hold relatively positive stereotypes about the students here, but older people would not think about the students here in any kind of really flatteriing way.

3:1 ratio of females to males

we are laid back

There is a female majority at CofC and most of these females come from rich families. The always present rich, snobby, STD ridden female at CofC is a huge stereotype. Also the Greeks, no matter how lame or normal they are as people, need you to know how important they are to the school. Another stereotype is the lazy, pothead, surfer who comes into class late with a hangover and skips later classes to "hit the beach".