Gettysburg College Top Questions

Going into my freshman year, I heard many things about the wealth of Gettysburg students as well as the lack of interest in service and a political population leaning very far to the right.

That everyone is white, religious and comes from a wealthy family. People think that we are all very politically conservative, spoiled and materialistic. People also think that every student joins a fraternity or sorority. Greek members don't really hang out with non-Greek members.

Preppy, rich, greek-life oriented

Lots of rich, preppy kids

The rich, preppy, Greek-affiliated students are the main stereotype on campus.

Preppy

Gettysburg students are stereotyped as being very preppy and wealthy. There also seems to be stereotypes regarding the traditional fraternity guy and sorority girl.

A stereotype of Gettysburg is that we are an upper class, white, un-diverse campus with a good academic status but also a high party school status. We are known as a top private school in Pennsylvania, but many of our students fit a white upperclass preppy stereotype.

One thing I didn't realize before I got to Gettysburg was that it is a huge party school, and many of the students are very preppy and well-off.

town- small town, civil war hot spot, tourist town students- preppy, conservative, rich, attractive, white