Rice University Top Questions

Some common stereotypes of Rice students are that we are smart, anti-social, strange, Asian, and wealthy.

- Geeky workaholics - Immature and obsessed with the "summer camp" aspects of residential college life - All engineers

Rice students are all mega-nerds who would rather work on problem sets than have fun. Rice students' interactions with the opposite sex consist of either acting like you're married or random hookups.

Rice students are always studying and never leave their rooms/library.

People who don't attend Rice sometimes think the school consists of nothing but unattractive students who study 24/7.

The biggest stereotype about Rice is that the students are really nerdy and dorky. I'm just going to list some other stereotypes: The students do nothing but study and therefore are super smart. Rice sports are horrendous. Rice students are ugly.

That we're all nerds and only like to study.

People seem to think of Rice as mostly an engineering school.

Rice students are stereotyped as being bookworms -- you know, people who spend their entire life in the library and don't interact with the real world.

Rice students are nerds that cannot do anything but study - they are awkward and generally cannot function in society. They are socially inept outside of academia.

From what I've heard, Rice students tend to be a lot like most engineering-school students -- focused mostly on academics and extracurriculars that would look good on the resume. Socializing is a lower priority, while dating in particular is dead last.

Well, there are always those "athlete" "pre-med" and "academ or engineer" stereotyping, but stereotypes that are unique to Rice are "smart nerdy kids" and "socially inadequate". On the other hand, we are also perceived sometimes as "snobby and rich", which doesn't quite give an accurate picture of the demographics at Rice.

Nerdy

-"Work Hard, Play Hard" -- Rice students study a lot, but they also like to party. -Really smart, driven, and nerdy -Diverse socially, ethnically -50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} from Texas -Lots of engineers and premeds (there is an entire subtype of premed stereotypes--they're grade-grubbing and anal) -Unattractive, sexually clueless -Socially awkward

Nerdy, ugly, sheltered.

We're a bunch of unattractive, awkward nerds that do nothing but study.

Rice kids are a bunch of nerds.

I've heard Rice students variously (sometimes contradictorily) described as brilliant, socially awkward, nerdy, strange, upper-class, middle-class, ugly, apathetic, prudish, drinkers and secular.

Rice students are extremely nerdy and never come out of their room from studying. They are in the library 24 hours and are mostly social inept.

I think the stereotype of a Rice student is that he/she is ugly, smart, and socially awkward.