Ohio Wesleyan University Top Questions

Owu students are preppy and mostly from the New England States

The biggest one is probably the stereotype that OWU is made up of rich students that don't really care about their education and are only there to spend money and party

That they are rich east coast kids that weren't able to buy their way into the major league Ivies.

Students are very preppy, some say we are stuck up. Stereotype of OWU, very hard school, known for its academics, very diverse school with lots to offer

Religious, conservatives with little to no diversity and social awareness.

OWU is seperated into about 3 categories overall-- 1) wealthy east coast kid. 2) hippie-like/somewhat normal kid. 3) international student

OWU can be stereotyped as a party school. It is also stereotyped as a school with a lot of science majors.

Some of the stereotypes go along with your chosen major, especially because some majors spend an unusually large amount of their time in their respective department building. For instance, a lot of the science majors spend some long nights in the science center doing labs, and most of the music majors live in Sanborn hall because they take so few classes outside of the music department. I don't feel the stereotypes are particularly prominent or negative, they're mostly about how busy, creative, analytical, etc. a person is.

The stereotype about OWU and smaller schools in general is that you won't receive the same kind of education at a smaller school and being at such a small college would seem too much like high school.

From the outside, OWU is a well-regarded liberal arts school right outside Columbus. From the inside, OWU is surprisingly east-coasty. The student body is basically split between international students, people from Ohio, and people from Connecticut.

Very clicky. Foreign students stay with foreign students, east coasters with themselves, etc.

Only rich, uppity kids can afford to come to OWU so all the kids are snotty.

i really wouldn't know what stereotypes other people hold, but i do know that the college itself would like people to think that the typical owu student is hard working and is constantly being challenged. They also like to think that every student cares about their grades/gpa

Not really sure what the sterotypes are. I havent really heard to much since i'm not from ohio.

a lot of rich snobs, large GBLT populace

1. OWU is half Ohioans w. good grades/half "East Coast" prepsters/dumb private school kids who tend to fail out. 2. OWU = "O.ur W.omen are U.gly"

Very Liberal but also seen as very east coast prepy

They are lazy, that they drink and sleep around a lot. That the girls are ugly. Coke-heads

That we're all a bunch of stuck-up, rich east coasters who only get into the school with their parents money.

I actually have know idea what the stereotypes are. If someone asks me what school I go to, I say "Ohio Wesleyan" and I either get a look like "were's that" or "Oh, that's a good school." I'd like to say that Ohio Wesleyan is simply a stereotypical liberal arts school. It has the parties, the frats, the preps, the nerds--pretty much everything.