Emerson College Top Questions

I mean, all stereotypes come from somewhere. I'd say they're about 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} accurate, and 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} inaccurate.

Absolutely not. There is such a wide range of creativity at Emerson. But there are a great mix of people here who are athletes, journalists, marketing majors, and people who have their focus on law school or marketing firms and not broadway. Emerson has the best campus in New England, in my opinion. We are on the corner of the Boston Common where the real estate is not cheap. I have heard so many students from other schools complain that there is never anything to do at their school because the campus is segregated from the rest of the world. That is impossible at Emerson. You can walk out your door and be in the center of a major city. Boston is a safe place to walk around too, which is a bonus.

Yes.

It depends. Many times not though.

Somewhat but there are a lot of hard working passionate students.

There are always people who are going to fit into those categories, but for the most part as Emerson has expanded its student population, this has changed. There are more straight males at Emerson (mostly in marketing, film and journalism), theater kids are a little crazy but mostly just loud, and the film students are really into their art, which isn't such a bad thing.

A lot of people wear tight pants; no one likes the pretentious people because they are pretentious, and I don't smoke nor did I audition for NYU. There are various groups but we all intermingle. And there are tons of hipsters.

Pink hair not so much, but the other ones sure. Again, these students are the most visible to the public, since they are the ones hanging outside the buildings

Of course there is no stereotype that is universally accurate. However, I'd say most Emerson students are guilty of at least one of the above stereotypes, and maybe 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} are guilty of all of them.

Most of them are pretty accurate.

Are they true? Well, I like to think that for the most part we are all unqiue. The thing about emerson students is they embrass liberal ideas but are not open minded enough to take in other ideas that exist outside their own. Not all of them are like this, but for the most part they are liberal because of their ideals and not their excuteion of considering ideals. Emerson is most definitely a non-party school. Some students atempt it, but the school is strict and they definitely get caught. Many of the new students have moved off campus for this reason. The fact it they never party during the week, weekends only. And I do not know how in the world they do it. The semetser is so damanding that maybe I'll go out to have a drink with a friend once a month (I am 22 and am old enough to do so). The students here are hard working individuals. An emersonain is more likely to be a canabus smoker than a heavy drinker. And no one in the WLP has time for either.

Well, not everybody is gay... and most of the pretentious kids have the knowledge to back up their attitude.

No. Some people do have money but not everyone. A lot of people think that the parents are buying their kids education, but thats not true. Also, not everyone is gay... and there are some trendy people. People also think taht the kids that "didn't have friends in hs" go here...not true. there are no freaks or geeks here. We're just liberal and thats the way we work...we are open to everyone.

Yes

All of these stereotypes are accurate, but there are many students who don't fit these stereotypes also.

Sometimes, other times it turns out you actually ARE one.

There are a lot of persons here whose dress could accurately be described in that fashion, yes. As for the other, sometimes unpleasant, connotations of these words, I don't know.

Not all of us are gay! Not all of us smoke! Many of us graduate and become successful! So what if we're not too good at math? We are willing to push the limits and we are creative and artistic!

The majority of students fit this stereotype but, of course, there are exceptions. However, there's more diversity in sexual orientation at Emerson than people think. When I first came to Emerson, I thought there would be absolutely no straight guys, and that's not true.

yeah pretty much.