Gettysburg College Top Questions

This school is very clique-y and elite. Students are close-minded and arrogant. The faculty tries to promote inclusion and diversity, but for the most part, it fails completely. Students are upper class white kids with wealthy families. Students are jocks/preppy kids, hipsters, foreign exchange students and everyone else. Most students are from the Northeast.

My classmates are young, immature, and would rather play games than truly learn something new about themselves, the world, or even about other people. They want to have fun. Some of my classmates see this, too, and want more out of their college experience, and I admire their strength amid such dreary, uninterested college kids.

Some are very smart. Some are very dumb. There's really no in-between.

My classmates at Gordon College, are very nice, respectful, and are fun to be around.

They were dedicated learners.

Typically classmates are friendly and engaging and tend to work and study together for assignments and projects.

my classmates are energentic and willing to learn from the teachers and peer through many different interactions both inside the classroom and outside in many activities

Drunk, preppy, and conservative

Most of my classmates are intelligent. Most of them are a lot wealthier than I am. And, most of them act like they are a lot wealthier than I am.

Work hard, play hard.

Most students are white, upper middle class, intelligent, career driven individuals who work hard and play hard.

Gettysburg students are intelligent, quick-witted, friendly and driven, although they believe they have a right to party and indulge during the weekends.

My classmates are motivated, driven students who know what they want and how to go about getting it.

Gettysburg classmates are practical, quick-thinking, energetic, and always engaged.

They are all friendly people, but many students come from similar backgrounds and have had similar life experiences.

On the same wave length yet still diverge from the norm

Most students look very pulled together for class. they wear preppy, expensive clothes. On the occasional day that I wear sweatpants, I feel very out of place. Students definately do not dress down for class.

Most Gettysburg students are white, priviledged students who come from nice families who live very comfortably. More than half went to private/boarding school. Most are from Maine to Virginia with a large chunk from New England. You may think you are hanging out with the kids on The O.C. sometimes, but you will meet people you never thought you'd like and do. People do dress nicely though, so if you want to go to a-sweats-everyday school, you may want to skip Gettysburg on your decision list. If your friends don't go to a school like Gettysburg though, you get bragging rights on your friends from school.

On campus, there are a wide variety of students. You will find students of different races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. I don't feel that many students of any kind would feel out of place at Gettysburg because there is a variety, and even if it is only a small variety, people are not closed to staying within a certain clique. Anyone can find a group of friends on campus. Students wear anything they want to classes. You can find in one classroom a student wearing sweats and another wearing a dress. I would say that you can probably find the majority of students wearing a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt because it does tend to get windy and cold at Gettysburg.

As much as a love Gettysburg, and while I'm sure it's doing it's best, it is not a super diverse school. Most students here are pretty financially well off, although interestingly, most of my friends were not super concerned with their immediate earnings after college. There is a lot of community service here. I wouldn't use the phrase "rich white kids" to describe it, but...you get the picture. I could count on one hand the number of people from other backgrounds that I knew in my four years. Also, continuing in that theme, this is not a school where people wear sweatpants to class. I don't know that I would say preppy, but...yeah.