Emerson College Top Questions

Very, very liberal-minded.

My classmates tend to be Bohemian artistis looking to do what they love, but are typically over stretched with all they've committed to, leading to lack of sleep and drinking.

Friendly,

My classmates tend to be freethinkers and respectful debators; there are people repreresenting a great variety of opinions, but everyone is overwhelming gracious in their acceptance of others. The degree to which this is true even surprised me. It is very easy to speak your mind in a discussion without the fear of unfair judgement or ridicule. All ideas are welcome from people of whatever background- regardless of race, sexual orientation, sex, religion, or anything else.

My classmates are very outspoken thinkers, unafraid to argue with other classmates or the professor when in class; and they are outgoing and vivacious outside of class. Optimism and energy permeates the student body as a whole, and they like to express their frustrations, concerns, and complaints, often working together to study and solve their problems with a class or an aspect of the school.

My classmates at Emerson are passionate, determined, creative, fun, unique, dedicated, eccentric, hard-working, driven, and opinionated.

Driven, although lacking in cultural awareness.

They are hard-working and motivated.

My classmates are extremely dedicated to their work at Emerson; they come in knowing which major best suits them and they tenaciously get involved in extracurricular activities which relate to their major program, either within the communications or the arts.

The students at Emerson are trying to change the world through artistic communications.

Emerson College students are bright , overachieving, talents and highly motivated.

An eclectic cacophony of liberals.

Crazy, fun, weel-informed, extremly smart, childish, adorable, talented.

We are driven, motivated, smart and talented

My classmates are motivated, enthusastic, and involved.

Creative and outgoing.

My classesmates are not only my friends, they are also my competators and the very reason why I push myself to my very limits.

Fairly homogenous, white community with a strong LGBT community. Two economic classes: those with enough money and those who couldn't get financial aid and have to find a way to pay for school. Very, very liberal student and faculty body. Student body discusses deep issues and can get obsessive about film, music et al. Everyone seems to know everyone because it is a small school. Not a big party community but lots of small house parties. Social groups center on extra curricular activities: Actors, Technicians, TV, Film students etc. You know who you work with the best.

There is a freaking HUGE gay population at the school. I know at least as far as boys are concerned, the statistics I've heard are that for every 60 girls, there are 40 guys, and that 70{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the guys are gay (that leaves pretty awful odds for us straight girls, and unfortunately, venturing out into the city ISN'T going to help--just prepare to lower your standards A LOT or to not get any all year). Almost EVERYONE you meet will be really wealthy--whether they're wearing the latest Abercrombie and Fitch, or some "artsy," "unique" outfit, it's going to be really expensive (and if it's the later of those two ensembles, probably from Urban Outfitters). People will brag about being down with the real world and into punk rock music or an urban, gritty lifestyle, and then proceed to tell you how they went to a really expensive private high school, how mommy and daddy won't send them anymore money, or how when they seem someone homeless chilling on the side of the street, it freaks them out. People are completely politically apathetic. They talk about how we have to stop global warming, but NONE of them actually do anything about it, and if a small group tries to organize something eco-friendly on campus, the rest of the idiot population bitches about how its an inconvenience. Or people will be like, "help children in Africa!" and wear these "Save Darfur" t-shirts, but like hell if they know where the Sudan is or who the Janjaweed are. Everybody is all about the image of appearing like activists, but very few people actually are activists. There are so many complete and total idiots at the school, I can't even begin to explain it to you--maybe it's all their "indie" hair dye leaching into their brains. Oh, and by the way--almost everyone is white. And a lot of people are really racially ignorant. Have fun with that.

The student body is so bizarre, very clique-y. And these cliques can often be intimidating and unimpenetrable because it seems they're mostly decided by major. For as different as everyone wants to be, people seem really similar. I think a lot of the kids tend to be from wealthy backgrounds and that definitely comes across.