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I think minority students are very rare at PC and they tend to stick together for the most part. most students wear jeans and polo shirts or blouses to class. different types of students do interact but there aren't that many different types of students. Four tables of students in the dining hall- girls all wearing pearl earrings or tiffany jewelry with louis vitton type bags and collared shirts with abercrombie jeans. boys wearing abercrombie jeans as well with collared shirts and calling each other "brah". I think it's mostly upper middle class kids. Kids are generally politically aware but not politically active and are predominantly right.

PC is run by the Dominican order, so there is a reliance on religion by some of the faculty, but not all. If you are partial to this, you can avoid taking classes taught by ordained faculty members.

There is very little diversity on our campus. Any people of color are usually associated with the sports teams. It is generally a white students who are admitted to the school and because of this, I think it lacks a lot. Most students wear jeans and a polo shirt or anything that makes them look nice. A lot of students wear sweat pants as well. It kind of depends on the student. Everyone is pretty friend and most of the students know a great deal of people so everyone interacts. If there were four tables of students in the dining hall, one would be a sports team, one would be a group of girls discussing their weekend or any drama that has taken place in the past few days, one would be the same type of table with a group of boys, and then lastly there would be a mixed table of boys and girls figuring out what they are going to do that night or on the weekend. Most students are from the Northeast, many are from Mass, CT, and Long Island. There are a lot of upper middle class students, but it is not strictly this background. Many students are politically aware and active, voicing their opinions at on and off campus debates and activities. There are both left and right wing students. Many students talk about being very successful and earning a very good income

PC's Student Body is not very diverse. I think that may draw many students there in the first place. If you are a white, athletic, suburban, preppy kid from New England, you will feel right at home! The whole campus is very health-conscious and students who smoke are sneered at regularly. The gym is packed 24/7 and students petitioned for better vegetarian options in the dining hall. Emo, straight-edge, or minority students would feel out of place at PC, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't find their own group of friends. There are students who wear sweats or athletic wear to class (some guys wear PJ pants), but even then the girls' clothes match and they have on mascara. J. Crew is the brand of choice for girls, in addition to designer jeans, vera bradley, lily pullitzer, jack roger sandals, AF, AE, etc. Everyone has a longchamp bag, a northface rain coat, a black northflace or patagonia fleece, and uggs. All the guys wear Vineyard Vines during warm weather. Different types of students do not normally interact. It's sad but true that overweight, unnattractive, and minority students have their own groups. Students are definitely politcally aware and tend to be more conservative. Everyone has their own plan for what they'll do when they graduate. Most students plan on graduate school and expect to make as much- or more- than their parents.

Most PC students hail from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey. There are students from other places but probably 85{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the student body comes from these states. Most students come from affluent families and lean towards the conservative side when it comes to politics. However as always, there are many who do not. Most students dress casually for class but not in sweatpants---a button down and jeans for guys is customary as is a skirt or jeans and cute top for girls.

There are two stereotypes, and if you don't fit either you are SOL and JWF (a reference to an act by comedian George Carlin). 1 - Drunk partier. 2 - Prudish Church boy/girl. Social growth is stunted, and most people will “hang out” with the same group for all 4 years - usually a group that involves their freshman year roommates or kids on their hall. Additionally, the sameness of everyone, referred to in other posts, creates a virtual certainty that experiences will not be dynamic. Sex is discouraged by the school bigtime, via parietals, which prohibit opposite sex guests during certain hours. As a result there are the rebels - the partiers who want to drink and hook up, etc., and there are the prudes. Therefore there is no casual dating, only serious long term relationship and what Facebook used to describe as “random play”. Many students grow disillusioned with the place, and either hide their dissatisfaction behind the facade of a happy drunk, or “socialize” less altogether, finding the people they meet unfulfilling.

The school is a Catholic college, so there is a Catholic church on campus. Sometimes you walk by friars or nuns. Most of the students are Irish or Italian Catholics. Most students dress casually to class. Most PC students are from New England or New York and New Jersey. Financially, I believe that the students are diverse. There are some rich and some poor or just middle class. I would think the school is mostly conservative because of the religion.

White, white, white.

Homogeneous. The students are, in general, accepting of alternative lifestyles, but the administration is a different story. Find your group early and be sure they are people worth sticking it out with, because after the first few months they're likely to be your group for the next 4 years. But, everyone has their group, so it works out.

Very conservative. And affluent. And drunk. And New-Englandish. The campus is mostly a-political, with a lot of apathy. Although the faculty is driven by a very responsible intellectual philosophy, the student body is not an intellectual one.