Swarthmore College Top Questions

The stereotype is that Swarthmore students are ugly, awkward nerds who spend all day in the library and never party or have fun. We are supposedly extremely (and very loudly) superleft-wing; they call it the Kremlin on the Crum or the People's Republic of Swarthmore.

They're awkward, dorky, quirky, intense.

I think the biggest stereotype about Swarthmore and Swarthmore students is that it is so academically intense that no one ever has fun and is always in the library.

One of the biggest stereotypes about "Swatties" is that we are always working. Another is that we are total hippies--a friend of my mom actually warned her against sending me to Swarthmore, because I would turn into a hippie.

Swarthmore students are nerds, over analytical, and critical.

Take the fun out of college, very studious, funny looking - because of the ratio (more women to men) I have heard people say the following, "The odds are good - but the goods are odd" sometimes that is used for Bryn Mawr as well. We also talk about Swoggles - swat goggles. We are known for the beautiful campus, and our sports aren't known to be victorious

Swat students are thought of to be over-extended and very ambitious. the school is very difficult with no time for a social life.

smart, intellectual, studious; overcommitted, overachieving; awkward, geeky; stressed out; idealistic, leftist

That all we do is study, That athletics are a joke, That we are all tree hugging liberals,

A lot of people think that Swarthmore students are nerdy, socially awkward, ugly, overachievers.

People sometimes think that Swarthmore students work all of the time, that they don't have any fun, and that they are constantly complaining about all the work that they must do.

Swarthmore is claimed to be far more intensive than other liberal arts and ivy league colleges in the amount of work you have to do.

They say we have too much work; they say we are unattractive; they say we are geeks.

Extremely nerdy, socially awkward

Uber-liberal weird school with weird students, lots of activism

Everyone here is thought to be very smart and from the top of their class.

A common stereotype about Swarthmore students is that we are awkward in social situations.

Swarthmore is the home for nerds and socially inept individuals. Swarthmore students are all very motivated and socially aware.

We work too hard.

That we all like to write long papers. That we are all liberal and that we are all into politics.