Lafayette College Top Questions

Lafayette College is a largely upper-middle class and predominantly Caucasian school. You'll find no shortage of boat shoes and Longchamp purses on any given weeknight at the library. We do have an International Students' Association that works diligently to promote diversity on campus, but international students only make up about 5{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the general student body. For the most part, LC doesn't get a lot of students outside of the tri-state area and New England; nor does it draw as many inner-city, lower-income students to add a great deal of socioeconomic diversity to the campus. One initiative that has recently picked up momentum is the Office of Intercultural Development, which works to promote gender equality and religious/racial/LGTBQ awareness, and that is definitely a great step in the right direction.

I love my classmates.

Students at Lafayette have a work hard play hard mentality. Academics are very important to students here, but at the same time they like to have fun. It is very easy to find a group of kids you get along with

Students at Lafayette have a work hard play hard mentality. Academics are very important to students here, but at the same time they like to have fun. It is very easy to find a group of kids you get along with

Eager and willing to learn and help others. They are friendly and fun but also focused on their academics.

My engineering classmates are conservative, detail-oriented, and analytical; my classmates are focused on binge drinking and their careers, sometimes in that order, sometimes not.

White, upper class. Not snobby though. I like most of the people here. But, students who want to have a ton of fun and go to football games and have a lot to do should NOT come to Lafayette. I repeat, DO NOT COME HERE if you want to have fun. Also, there is absolutely no school spirit. There also isn't a community; or to put it in other words, you don't feel like you are a part of anything at Lafayette. There is no common thing that everyone connects to. People wear anything to class. Some get dressed up, others wear pajamas and don't give a damn. I love going to the library at night and wearing my pajamas, all homeless looking, to see what looks I get. It's this kind of stuff that I have to resort to to keep myself sane at this place. Most students are from Pennsylvania or New Jersey. There is no diversity. 85{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white. Four tables at the dining hall include a lacrosse table, a soccer table, a group of friends from a dorm, and then another group of friends. There are TONS of varsity athletes at the school, it is Division I, and they are somewhat segregated from the rest of the school i.e. sit at the same table, go to the same parties, and the like. So, there isn't much interaction between them and the rest of the student body outside of class and during the day. It's not that they are arrogant or anything, I think that's just how it happens everywhere.

Lafayette's student body isn't that of a typical liberal arts college. However, it does have a wide variety of people.

Approximately, eight out of ten are white here, but it doesn't really matter since most of the students are open-minded.

Plenty of students from the tristate area, but plenty out of the area as well.