The University of Texas at Austin Top Questions

binge drinkers, partiers, could have gone to a better college but decided to go to UT for cheaper tuition and friends

They're all football fanatics.

the students always party and the usual "Texan" stereotypes

That we are all liberal, smart kids that party all the time.

Having gone to a very conservative, Christian high school, I was always told that UT was a school comprised primarily of crazy liberals and "hippies", with few "normal" kids.

Hmm....I have heard it say many times that the campus is so big it takes and hour to walk to class. Also that everyone that goes to UT are smart

Being one of the largest universities in the United States, UT has one of the most diverse campus's. There are stereotypes ranging from smart Asians to stupid sorority girls to the athletic black people.

Diverse and liberal

Students that go to other universities, especially other schools in Texas, seem to think that UT's students are stuck up, especially when it comes to athletics (which may explain why so many people think it's cute to throw down the Horns.)

The majority of the state of Texas is quite conservative. However, the lovely town of Austin remains the sole haven for those with leftist leanings, so naturally everyone, or at least everyone in Texas, assumes that the majority of UT students are liberal pot-smoking hippies. There is an overwhelming fear among adults that their good conservative Christian kids will do a complete 180, becoming radical anarchists, environmentalists, homosexuals, atheists, or a number of other dangerous classifications. A mother, father, or high school counselor might semi-jokingly warn a UT-bound student, "Now, just make sure you don't turn into a liberal atheist or something crazy like that!"