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It is a school for rich snobs.

Since it is a wet campus everyone drinks.

The biggest stereotype is that Rider is a suitcase school.

1. Rider is a suitcase school 2. There is nothing to do around Rider

The students are rich and don't care about spending money. No one goes to class until right before finals.

It's a suitcase school. And it really is. Most of the people who go are from New Jersey, so, naturally, they go home on weekends. Sure, that means there isn't much to do on campus. The surrounding area makes up for it though. Every shop you could ever imagine is within 10 minutes, it's perfect. People wise, everyone is differant. There are those people who are still stuck in high school and just do not like you if you aren't like them. Then there are those who are friendly and open to meeting new people. You really have to make an effort and stick yourself out there. There are great people there, it's just a bit of work to find them.

Depends on what you mean. Schools like TCNJ and Princeton think we're probably stupid, lesser educated students. Then again, when I tell certain people where I go to school, they say Rider is a smart school with a great business program. And after a couple years of being here another stereotype is that the students here are either smart kids or they are athletes.

I think students tend to drink more, including underage drinking but do it more 'stealthily' because of the strict alcohol policy. The strict alcohol policy is due to the death of this one kid, but then again, it was the kid's fault for binge drinking in the first place- i think that everyone is out to break the alcohol policy. We are not all rich brats.

Our school is stereotyped to be an expensive institution where there is absolutely nothing to do on the weekends, and the all of the students tend to go home rather than stay on campus.