joanne
students wear a variety of things to class-- from sweatpants to t-shirts and jeans, to designer duds (especially Uggs), and lots of leggings (unforunately).
Melissa
despite the stereotypes, hofstra's quite diverse. i feel like there's a little spot for everyone. there are a lot of commuters, though, which i think may take away from a larger sense of community that you may see on other campuses. students mostly don't seem politically knowledgeable and are generally upper-middle class and wealthy.
Dawson
everyone here is for the most part very open to different views and personal life styles. it does get click-y with greek life, but no one is purposely ostracized because they arent in a certain group.
Tina
There are definitely different parts of the student body. I don't interact with greek life or stereotypical long island kids at all because I can't relate to them in any way. I do however have a great variety of friends of what I consider normal students who all have different interests and are on different teams.
Ryan
Student body is incredibly diverse; unfortunately you do not really get to experience the diversity because almost every ethnic group stays in its own little clique. There are lots of rich Long Islanders, and then lots of students in tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Most of the students are from the Tristate area, the East Coast in general, Pennsylvania, and California.
there are some extremely active students who are incredibly driven, but the majority do not care. Professors are overall very liberal; Students are mixed between liberal and too caught up in themselves to care.
Whitney
There are all sorts of groups for everyone, even frats and sororities. It's a pretty casual campus that everyone can find something to do and somewhere to belong. Students are fairly aware politically and usually more left leaning.
Sarah
Pretty diverse, much more so then I thought it would be. Upper class income kids are still the most common, but that probably has to do with the price of tuition
Shawn
Lots of groups including frats and sororities. Mostly left leaning school.
Mike
Certainly diverse. I don't think anyone would feel out of place here
Jacob
the student body seems separated into some cliques like H.S. but there is no racial, sexual, anything else issues i dont think...it has good diversity and students from all over.... its big for a private school but its a good size for me.