Gettysburg College Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Gettysburg College?

robin

That everyone is rich. It's very clique oriented.

Amanda

That we're all rich and snobby and daddy pays our way into school.

Alex

Gettysburg students are rich, spoiled and preppy. Girls are "stuck-up" and the guys are fraternity assholes

Andy

That everyone is a rich brat. Frat boys are assholes. Sorority girls are sluts/do coke. Everyone is interested in the Civil War. It's all white kids.

Quinn

Rich, high-class, intelligent Christian white people. Maybe even "perfect", but that word is so skewed that I don't think I can really use that.

tim

Gettysburg students are said to be snobby stuck up if your a girl and the boys are rich sailor boys that wear buckle hats, wooden boat shoes, and tight small colorful shorts.

Robin

-rich, privelidged, bitchy, all the same,

Sean

Lack of diversity

Emilie

A bunch of preppy rich kids that drink too much

Brynn

We are really really preppy. I've seen preppier and of course there are those who aren't, but overall we are a very preppy campus.

Claire

its a rich school with many republican snobby students who spend all of daddys money on alcohol and drugs.

Andy

One stereotype is that Gettysburg students are all rich. Another stereotype is that all of Gettysburg's students went to private high schools.

Michelle

Gettysburg students are upper-middle class, preppy individuals.

Megan

Although we emphasize diversity, students make jokes about this. They say, in more crude terms, that we have very little diversity. We also have a stereotype of having rich, stuffy students who only like to drink and socialize instead of go to college for what it is intended.

Caitlyn

There is definitely the stereotype that everyone here is a rich, white and from New Jersey. We are known as J. Crew U because of the prepiness of the students.

Charlie

I haven't really heard any stereotypes, we're a very diverse school.

Lexy

Very preppy and wealthy.

Nick

Rich snobs.

Julie

Some people stereotype Gettysburg students as being wealthy, preppy students who get by on their parents' money without having to work hard to achieve success. Gettysburg is also seen as somewhat of a party school.

KJ

Preppy and rich students