Harvard University Top Questions

Rich, privileged backgrounds, politically and culturally mainstream, guaranteed to be professionally successful.

Brilliant, nerdy, stuck-up, career-oriented, outspoken, overachievers

Harvard students are: snobby, geniuses, rich, white, spoiled, self-entitled

That they are all nerdy and study all the time. That they are awkward and cannot communicate with other "regular" people.

I'd say people probably think we work all of the time and never go out or have fun. also that we're ugly :)

Preppy, stuck in their own world, very little realization about how the real world works.

Harvard has an unlimited endowment, Rich students, and is the number one university in the world. Students are either very smart or rich, and they are typically very arrogant.

Pretentious, Rich, Ugly Girls.

I suppose some stereotypes about Harvard are that Harvard is hard and that Harvard students are rich snobs.

I tend to think that people think all we do is study all day and do like 50 million extracuriculars. We're also supposed to be super smart and know everything and solve every problem in the world. Nerds are probably pretty ugly and so people think a lot of people are unattractive. The Harvard students also never parties and is very rich and full of themselves.

We are all nerds we are really competitive We don't have good parties

That they were polos and blazers and are really rich and snotty. Or the other one that they are crazy hippy liberal.

Everyone is very type-A, has no fun, doesn't go out, big nerds. You get no personal attention, it is really easy to get A's, undergraduates get shafted.

They either want to become I-bankers and make loads of money (they are insensitive) or they are hippies that just want to change the world but don't quite know how.

Harvard students are rich and preppy. Harvard students are really arrogant and exclusive. Harvard students are complete nerds with no social life. Everyone is an intense pre-law or pre-med student.

Some stereotype about Harvard students is that they're all rich, wear expensive clothes, and flaunt this whenever they can. For some reason people also seem to think we have thick Boston accents and say Hahvahd all the time.

Many outsiders seem to be operating under the misconception that Harvard students are cutthroat, calculating, and aloof.

The two main stereotypes that I've heard about Harvard students is that they're a) extremely wealthy and b) extremely intelligent (i.e., genius-quality). I've also heard that Harvard students never stop working or never leave the library, and that they don't know how to have a good time.

Harvard kids are smart and better. Harvard has grade inflation.

we are smart and will make lots of money in the future