Rider University Top Questions

NO!

For the most part, but there are always exceptions.

Many students do go home on the weekends and the campus is significantly empty on the weekends. Rider, like any college, is as fun as you make it. The campus shutting down fraternities and making it more risky to party on campus has reduced the overt partying at Rider, making it appear to be less fun, but if you have found your own group of friends you can make your own fun.

No

Yes and no!! Yes because there is an enormous amount of money within the student population at Rider, as well as it is very cliquey. Although you do get a select group of students that attend Rider because they get very generous financial aid packages and they are great students who don't care about the Greek focus and are a true value to Rider.

Yes and no. Rider IS expensive, but in no way is it like taking classes at the Ritz. Yes- it's hard to go to an expensive private school unless your wealthy..or really really poor that the school gives you obnoxious amounts of financial aid. Rider can be considered a suitcase school if you want it to be because most of the people who attend don't live too far, but in general there's always a lot of people here - even in the summer.

yes....and yes.

I'd say half the students are probably smart and the other half don't care much about school work. And it was only the past year we had alot of people kickin the bucket. The ones due to drugs and alocohol were the ignorant, stupid kids that go way past being drunk.

It is true for some students but I have met many nice and friendly students like myself.

Nope not at all. Everyone on campus is different but we all pretty much get along.