Smith College Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Smith College?

Lindsey

Smith students are either lesbians, desperate, and overworked.

Becky

that everyone is really weird and that everyone has homosexual relationships while here.

Bobby

That we're all lesbians.

Alison

That we're all gay and are feminists.

Grace

Lesbians. Hipsters. Vegans. Good food. Ooober liberals. Some of the most intelligent, witty, and creative people you will ever meet. Some not so smarts, but they help balance things out. We breed fame. A boy empty campus.

Caroline

a lot of people consider smith to be the lesbian school. they also think that we get really up in arms about everything. i suppose you could use the five college scooby-doo analogy. smith is velma; mount holyoke is daphne (though smith used to be daphne); amherst is fred; hampshire is shaggy. (umass was never included to my knowledge).

Alyssa

We're all either radical lesbians or preppy girls-in-pearls.

Abbi

gay, crunchy, smart, activist

Abby

That we're all super butch lesbians. Also that we're smart and intimidating. Or else that everyone is the extremely wealthy prep-school type.

Alexandra

Full of lesbians; super liberal; very intense; high academic standards

Nicole

that we are lesbians

Gabriele

Stereotypes include: many/most Smithies are lesbians, man-haters, crazy uber-liberals, obnoxious over-achievers

breana

Everyone is a lesbian or bisexual. Smith girls study all the time and never go out. Smith is a bubble, you will never get off campus. There are certain stereotypes that run with certain houses or organizations as well.

Bronwyn

Gay. Rich. Uptight. Way too overly focused on studies.

Emmerson

That we are all lesbians, that we are all book worms and don't know how to have fun.

sally

awkward studious lesbians

Michelle

uber-liberal, intense/very tightly wound

Andy

That everyone is a lesbian here at smith. Also that everyone is rich.

Rachel

That everyone is a lesbian, that every single is ridiculously smart and wonderfully academic.

Jessica

That all Smith girls are lesbians