Princeton University Top Questions

Stereotypes about Princeton students include being rich, spoiled, pretentious, and overly exclusive (especially pertaining to our eating club system).

White, conservative campus of health-conscious, well-dressed people. Nice but boring people...not too many strong personalities, unless they're pretentious assholes. Oh, and of course the elitism and ingrained sense of social hierarchy offered by the eating club system.

snobby, rich, smart

I think people see Princeton students as preppy and perhaps a bit snooty.

In his novel This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald called Princeton "the pleasantest country club in America." A certain stereotype of preppiness, exclusivity, and conservatism endures.

The stereotypical Princeton student wears a lot of popped collars and loafers. Princeton has a reputation as an elitist center for nerds and preps, and sometimes preppy nerds.

Princeton students are often stereotyped as the "work hard / play hard" type. Also, there are two things that you can garauntee about every Princeton student - 1) they have a ridiculously interesting talent that you may or may not know about (and if you know about one, they probably have another one), and 2) they are generally very easy to get along with, though perhaps difficult to become deep friends with.

Everyone is extremely preppy, snobby, weathly and competitive.

I think Princeton students tend to be stereotyped as well-to-do, preppy academics.

preppy, nerdy, conservative...