Denison University Top Questions

There is the 'preppy' stereotype, and a perception that greek life dominates the social scene.

Rich, Snoppy, Elite, White, Preppy kids

rich white kids who have everything handed to them on a silver platter, bros, lacrosse players who think they're gods gift to the world, homogeneity

Denison is know as a preppy party school filled with trustfunds and popped collars, short skirts and Ugg boots, etc.

Preppy, Rich, and Snobby

Denison students are stereotyped as White, wealthy, preppy, conservative, party animals, self-absorbed and obsessed with their sports and fraternities/ sororities.

That all of them are rich and selfish snobs.

Denison students are rich and spoilt.

Rich, white kids that only party

Mostly upper crust, white, and liberal. Students are from many nations, but most are from the U.S. East Coast.

That the African American students only hang out with other African American students and minorities. The there is nothing but rich, preppy people at Denison. That if you are a minority and not in Posse that you are rich.

Rich, Snobby, Disconnected, Priviledged

They do a lot of Cocaine. They do a lot of LSD. They Party Hard. They have a lot of sex. The school cares more about alumni money than students. The Grateful Dead loved DU. The dorms have mold and fungus. Security and the school will narc on you since the students are forced to live on campus and, in turn, have no rights.

Denison is known as the rich kid school, where students party a lot and wear expensive clothes. Denison is very small but likes to draw students from a wide array of ethnicities. However, these ethnicities oftentimes group together and produce segregated social groups, which kind of gives an atmosphere very similar to high school. Denison is also known as the school for kids who couldn't make it to Harvard.

Rich Preppy White Students that aare very SMART

Although it's made a better name for itself in academics, Denison is still known as something of a school for the snobby rich kids from the East Coast who weren't able to get into the Ivys. The social scene is purportedly dominated by the frats and sororities. It's also been characterized, particularly in recent months, as lacking in (primarily racial) diversity.

Rich Preppy kids from the east coast. Good looking student body, mainly athletic and many play sports. Overall priveliged kids who are smart but not smart enough for a big time ivy league school or a top liberal arts school such as swarthmore. Kids like to have a good time but study hard as well, party four nights a week.

People in New York told me that Denison University should not be my first choice for college because they had heard that the academics were not very strong and that the people were superficial.

Preppy, snobby, rich

Affluent, east coast, prep school, ribbon wearing, popped collar.