Lewis & Clark College Top Questions

Is the stereotype of students at Lewis & Clark College accurate?

Dylan

on a pretty general level, yes, there is alot of pot and most people are not in any real financial trouble

Lindsay

Not all students are hippies and there is less drug use than is thought. There are very few students who actually do drugs and do them on a regular basis. Student-athletes do NOT get preferential treatment. If anything, professors are much harder on student-athletes and aren't as forgiving. There is no promise of a good job right out of college.

Madeline

1. True 2. False

Kelsey

To an extent. It definitely has a more liberal, hippie vibe but not to the extreme that people think. There is a nice variety and I really like it.

Casey

Not at all. I do not consider myself a hippie in any way. Most of the people at LC are not hippies either.

Ava

Unfortunately, LC is about 60{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white. But, LC gives great financial aid, I know first hand.

Madison

Alarmingly so. In recent years the school has lost its real hippy atmosphere and has been replaced. We still smoke a lot of pot but i wouldn't want to get high with any of these underclassmen because they are way lame.

Royce

it's definitely an authentic extreme that exists on campus, and if that bothers you a great deal, come check it out. maybe you'll dig it. at first that sort of disgusted me--that people could walk around living in such a major haze and not do anything about it. sometimes that still bothers me--the greater amount of lc students are not DOers. but they are also not what we'd call big USers.

Craig

to an extent...it is a liberal arts school in Portland (which is a liberal city) so LC is bound to attract a certain type of student, but I think the stereotype is fairly overblown as the majority of kids at LC are pretty normal college kids, there is just an outspoken few that get more noticed and therefore people think that is how all LC students are

Alex

I would say this is not true at all. In my four years at LC I have hardly been exposed to pot and I had lots more friends in high school who smoked all the time in comparison to my friends here. As far as being a bunch of hippies, I think that we do have a large population of hippies, but by no means is our school all hippies. I think we have a pretty good mix of different kinds of people.