The University of Alabama Top Questions

I don't truly believe that there are any stereotypes of students at my school. There's just so many of us.

That at least 75{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of this school is made up of Greek. This is absolutely not true. There are roughly only about 28{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of students that are Greek. But, yes you do see a lot of girls with messy hair, XXXL t-shirts, and Nike shorts with bright colored nike tennis shoes on. This is nothing out of the ordinary. It really isn't that bad and you get used to seeing it around quickly.

I guess the biggest stereotype we have at UA is the "southern frat guy". As in many colleges, the UA's greek system is really big and powerful, but differs from all the other greek systems is that we are in the South. This stereotype portrays average students who, along to studying and pursuing their degree, enjoy spending time with their fraternity brothers watching football games, partying, organizing events and mostly drinking cheap beer. Off course not all the fraternity guys are as described by this stereotype, but I have to say that at UA we have many of them.

The stereotype for the University of Alabama is that we are 60{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} greek and 40{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} backwood redneck students from hickville. This stereotype is not accurate, because like 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} is greek and I think there are more out of state students than there are in state.

I feel there are many stereotypes at this university, as well as others. You will always have your fraternatiy and sorority groups that most likely hang around together. Also, there are the older people who have decided to come back to school that stick out from the rest of the crowd. You will also know the atheletes on campus because of their clothing and Bama backpacks. Besides those groups, everybody else just blends in.

Greek is very common, but does not include everyone.

The major stereotype at the University of Alabama is football loving, beer drinking frat boys. There is definitely a degree of truth to that just as there would be at any university, but I wouldn't say that it is 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} accurate. I'd say that stereotype is only fulfilled by about 10-15{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the population here. There is a plethora of other organizations, activities, cultures, and subcultures to get involved with here.

If you are not greek it is kind of hard to have a lot of friends and social life because the majority of the students here are all greek for the most part, I encourage people to go greek! Its so much fun and it keeps you busy with so many fun events and activities. A lot of the girls who are in a sorority dress very casual to class with no makeup, big t shirts and leggings with boots in winter and fall and t shirts and nike shorts in summer. I am from Maryland and I don't wear over sized t shirts and nike shorts but for some reason its so popular at Alabama. For girls who are not Greek they dress up for class and wear makeup. For the frat boys they always dress "fratty" with their polo button downs, sperrys, tucked in shirts, very gentlemen like. And alot of people in greek wear polo caps to class or their sorority letters on it.

We are typically known as the Greek Life kids. The University of Alabama is composed of different sororities and fraternities and pretty much everyone you meet is most likely in or going to be apart of the Greek life. So yes it is completely accurate.