Emerson College Top Questions

Emerson is very theater driven - and unless you want to become an actor its not for you. Everyone at Emerson is a freak. Emerson doesn't have a campus.

Emerson students seem to think that other Emersonians are weird, depressed, angsty, artsy individuals who don't really fit in anywhere else. People who don't go to Emerson who I have spoken with associate Emerson students with trust funds, rich kids who wanted to go to an expensive arts school with no real arts classes to speak of.

That the film people are all stuck up artsy liberals and that all the guys in the theatre department are gay.

Emerson is known for it's awesome hands on approach to film and tv production as well as the best radio station and highly specialized theater program. Students are stereotyped as rich kids and high maintenance.

Only Gay men go to Emerson. Film kids are only into their art. Theater kids are all either gay, crazy, or both. Journalism kids are stuck up. Writing, Lit. and Publishing majors just don't know what they want to do in life.

They all wear tight pants and are mostly pretentious. Everyone smokes cigarettes and none of us got into NYU. There are various groups like the hipsters and the techies.

People think all kids at emerson have pink hair and/or look like a walking Urban Outfitters ad. Oh, also smokers. Can't really blame them for the last one...the smokers at our school LOVE taking over Boylston St. between classes. Dramatic. "Artsy". Emo.

According to the general public, Emerson students are all gay or bi, wear tight, emo clothes and messenger bags, hold a latte in one hand and a cigarette in the other, have dyed hair and thick-rimmed glasses, and suck at sports.

Some stereotypes of Emerson are that we're all hipsters. We're weird. We're all hippies.

Emerson students are considered the werid art students. I was actually told once , "you mean you want to go to that school where all the werid kids go?" I say Yeah, why wouldn't i? but none the less, there is this sterotype. At the same time they are considered smart hardworking students. It is considered the anti-party school.