Davidson College Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Davidson College?

Catherine

Before I came to Davidson I heard two things about Davidson students 1) They work hard (maybe too hard) 2) they are the rich white children of the doctors and lawyers of the South.

Royce

Preppy, type-A, smart, overachievers, busy, intense

Alex

Small, preppy, narrow-minded, over-achieving, type-A, driven, hardworking, intense, competitive with themselves but not each other, wealthy, sheltered, homogenous

Marybeth

Davidson is viewed as a pretentious, private, and primarily white school. Davidson has an excellent reputation for bestowing an incredible liberal arts education upon its students.

Alex

We enjoy being extremely busy and have nerdy interests

Lindsay

We are all nerds and we work all the time.

Laura

Stereotypes include that we are all too busy to do laundry and that we work really hard.

Sarah

We're all nerds and we're all rich.

Dale

Smart, well-off, motivated, preppy, somewhat conservative (on average). Generally athletic, well rounded students, somewhat overachieving. On a more negative note, davidson kids are sometimes stereotyped as elitist.

Casey

People think we're all preppy and rich. So not true.