Swarthmore College Top Questions

They are nerdy, a bit (or sometimes very) anti-social, they were probably never popular in high school, they're very smart (the smart one in the class), they're very liberal and hippy-ish.

From the inside, it's that we are nerdy but embrace it, that we're ugly, that we don't party, and that we're weird. From the outside, I guess it's pretty much the same.

That they are all ugly and nerdy and just work all the time.

Swarthmore has the stereotype of being a place where the students have to work really hard. Swatties are stereotyped as awkward, unattractive nerds.

an all girls college in upstate New York; very liberal; students only do work and never have fun

Super smart, liberal, activist

Swarthmore students are neurotic, nerdy, hard-working, intellectually engaged, leftist, smart, uninterested in partying, no fun.

We are intense, nerdy, and liberal.

One big stereotype is that we are all really nerdy or weird. Another is that we are all ugly. Another is that the work is too hard and that there is an impossible amount.

Some people think that all Swarthmore students do is study. They think we don't go out on the weekends or hang out with friends- basically that we spend all our time in the library. Swarthmore students are also seen as elitist and as having a chip on their shoulders because they are at a good liberal arts school instead of an Ivy.