Davidson College Top Questions

These stereotypes are incorrect. There are lots of students at Davidson who go out and have fun, and who aren't obsessed with work and grades. The eating house stereotypes are very wrong, there are all kinds of different people in each eating house.

Absolutely not, there is some truth that you do need to be a good student, however, people go out and party, they don't work all the time. Also while there are some conservative people there are also many liberal individuals.

While they're certainly are students who devote a lot of time to studying, most people like to go out and have fun, too.

people are driven but not cut-throat and its very much a work hard play hard type of place.

There are definately a good amount of students who are awkward and unsociable, but there is also a fun group of students who are academically responsible and still like to go out and have fun. And yes, A's are extremely rare.

to some extent, but not really. Davidson's student body is split fairly evenly between the number of southern students it has and students from other regions of the country and even world. It is true that it lacks diversity and the bulk of the student body is caucasian. The political climate of the campus is split fairly evenly between Republicans, Democrats, and Independents- there is not one overwhelming partisanship amongst students. Davidson's student body is fairly wealthy, and given the academic rigor of the Davidson curriculum, most students are type-A or over-acheivers before they even come here.

yes and no. Definately a preppy feel but people really come from a fairly broad backgrounds and have different perspectives

Some of the time yes

yes, except for not everyone is wealthy

I don't think so, but I'm sure there are some people who fit the stereotype.