College of William and Mary Top Questions

The stereotype of students at William and Mary is typically overly studious kids from suburbia Virginia, but all sorts of students can be seen running around the campus: jocks, fraternity and sorority members, nerds, and seemingly "wallpaper" people that you might never remember. Needless to say, regardless of what kind of student you are, William and Mary definitely has a place for you. For additional information, see the question labeled "What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate?" (Note: seems sort of redundant to have the same question twice, doesn't it?)

The stereotype is that we are nerds who study all the time. On campus, we call these types of people TWAMPs, or, a Typical William and Mary Person. It's a term of endearment, though!

That we're all super nerdy and do not party.

This is one section we can agree on. William & Mary students are stereotyped as bookish and awkward.

Is it true that William and Mary has absolutely no social scene? Tim gives his take on the stereotype.

Patrick dispels a few William and Mary stereotypes.

Dave discusses the "academic bootcamp" stereotype of William and Mary.

Andrew tells us about some of the stereotypes of W&M students.

Geeky, awkward, lame, suicidal, unattractive, unsocial

The main stereotypes about William & Mary students are that we study all the time and don't know how to have fun. People also claim that we are socially awkward.

That because this is an old institution that it is stuck in the past and stodgy. That the students are stuck-up or nerds with no time for anything but studying.

They are typically portrayed as socially awkward academics.

Some common stereotypes about William and Mary students is that we work too hard, that our suicide rate is higher than anywhere else, or that we don't know how to have fun. However, it's really the in-state kids that know these stereotypes; coming from Chicago, I hadn't heard any of them until I got here-- and I laughed.

A lot of students still think they're big fish, even though the pond is no longer high school size. Fortunately, there are enough down to earth kids to make the ones that go around playing "professional leader" look like a caricature. Some outsiders think that there is a shortage of attractive females, and having been to southern schools, there may be a grain of truth to that.

Nerdy, smart, quiet, history geek, awkward

Nerdy, work hard, don't party too much, caring

1. Socially Awkward 2. Nerdy 3. Ugly 4. Liberal

Simply put: we spend all our time in the library and after a long day of studying, we sometimes go kill ourselves.

They only study, they are suicidal , they are all nerds.

We're completely wrapped up in our studies. Everyone wants to be an IR major or pre-med. We don't know how to party. We're always competing with UVA. W&M is 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} dedicated to service.