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I think everyone would feel comfortable at rider because it is a fun school and everyone will find someone that is just like them. I found that most of the students that go to rider are from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. But I've meet people from California, Massacheuts, Florida and Connecticut

I feel that our student body is very diverse. We tend to have a lot of people from different backgrounds, however because of the living situations everyone for the most part gets along.

If I were to describe the groups in the dining hall. All sports teach group together right as son as you walk into Dalys. On the left its groups of friends everywhere. In the back sits the basketball players and most of the greeks. if ur in a sorority u sit with ur sisters if ur in a frat ur with ur brothers. all the freaks sit around the fire place.

Everyone is kind at Rider University. There are no biases against anyone of a different race or ethnic background. Everyone embraces the diversity at our university.

Our campus is diverse and its great because we get to learn about people who arent like ourselves. I dont think anyone would feel out of placve here. Dress to class is casual for the most part, accept the people who go over the top which I think you would find anywhere. Most Rider students are from Jersey or the tri state area.

Students wear whatever they want to class, I've even seen people wear pajamas. There are many groups/activities at Rider that allow the students to voice their opinions and interact (Student Government Association, etc). I would say the financial background is probably middle-class. All different types of students interact, we even have an "International Dorm" which students can choose to live in and learn about different cultures, etc.

Rider is mostly white with a high concentration of upper class Jewish students, however I do not really think anyone would feel out of place at Rider. There is a mix of everyone and it seems as though everyone gets along pretty well. It's a good school with good people, of course their are the exceptions but they are a small minority.

There are many different types of people at Rider. I think that the student that would feel out of place at Rider is the student that makes themselves feel out of place. At any college there is a group of people that you'll fit in with, you just have to find it. You're not going to make friends sitting in your room and doing nothing, you have to go out, get involved, and talk to people. Most students wear jeans and a t-shirt or a shirt to class. Some wear sweatpants, some wear pajamas. It doesn't really matter what you wear. If you feel comfortable in it then go for it. I would say that most people at Rider do some from money. It is a private institution and that is what you get when you go to a private institution. Most students aren't politically aware. There are a small number of history majors. The students that are politically aware are left winged.

Rider is a mostly white campus with different ethnic groups which help but everyone seems to fit in and find hteir own group of people to be with. Athletes seem to stick together.

There is a variety of races and ethnic backrounds at rider. Ive seen it all. I dont think that anyone would feel uncomfortable attending rider. Mostly everyone dresses similar following the current trends and fashions. I'd say because we are a private school there are a few students with money and who are able to keep up with all of the hottest fashions, but there are also those who cant afford such things, but still dress nicely, its like anywhere you go people have their own styles and tastes. If you walk into Dalys the dining hall and there were four tables of students you would probably see a table of guys and girls, a table of girls, a table of guys and a sports team. people talk about how they will make alot of money or that they will be in debt after college. People are friendly and tend to help you with your school work and studies if need be.

Wouldn't call it very close knit.

Rider is pretty diverse...there's a lot of Asians...like A LOT, and they all ban together. The European students tend to blend in more with the rest of the student body and make a lot of different friends. There is a good amount of gay men and women, but only a small portion go to the Gay-Straight Alliance. The rest prefer to just blend in. A good 70{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the students are probably from New Jersey...but New Jersey, as small as it is, is a very diverse place. My new friends form North Jersey are nothing like my friends from South Jersey...and Central Jersey has a beat all of its own that I've never known of.

Everyone is nice and friendly. It's a diverse group of people but everyone is still together and connected.

The student body is fairly diverse. The fraternities and sororities are very close and have a presence, though they certainly do not run the campus. The athletes also have a great presence on campus and a very tight group extremely supportive of one another. The are also many other groups and organizations on campus, if you want to be involved there is certainly enough to do.

Boring and uninvolved

really small and everybody knows each other

I dont think anyone would feel out of place at rider. The rider student body is made up of many nice people who are open to everything. Everyone interacts even if you aren't the best of friends. I have made friends through clubs and sports and they aren't my typical type of friends but we get along very well and even interact outside of the activities.

The one saving grace in my eyes is the student body. Everyone is accepting (albight a few divas, but what are you going to do?) Everyone's really intelligent and committed, so someone who isn't so may feel overwhelmed. If students live on campus, they roll out of bed in sweatpants and get to class, or if their grad students their in a suit, it's really a big range.

Just about everyone is from New Jersey in Rider, and all live within two hours of the school as well. If there were four tables one would be a group of the athletes, one a frat, another a sorority, and the other an average group of friends. Everyone feels accepted at Rider.

Rider has only several cliques of which I've become aware. There is a definite clique that encompasses the Greek community. There is also a separate clique of Alpha Psi Omega, the theater fraternity at Rider. They have a tendency to be quite ignorant, conceited and unwelcoming. They thrive on their status as "oddballs" as if it were a bad movie stereotype like something I've never encountered in my own life until I came to Rider, and they cherish whatever they can make their own. They try to steal the spotlight at any moment and they try to create competition with Westminster students for the sake of further inflating their egos.