University of California-Irvine Top Questions

Stereotypes that are common with UCI students include slangs for what "UCI" really means, which include the "University of Chinese and Indians." Although your student population includes a large majority of Asian students, the entire UC Regent system is heavily populated by Asian students. However, during the past 4 years at UCI I have come to appreciate the diversity our campus has to offer and believe it's good to meet people with different backgrounds.

I would have to say that the most common stereotype that I hear about UCI is that we're 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} Asian and a huge commuter school. Apparently we're also anti-semitic and anti-Muslim. Also, I often hear that the students are really apathetic on our campus and that there are never any parties.

I don't know a particular stereotype about UCI in general. However, there are some stereotypes about the types of people that go to UCI. For example, greeks, specific majors, not as good as UCLA. So, for the greeks, they are viewed as people who are well off, dont' care much about the important things in life, etc. For bio or engineering majors they are viewed as the brainier ones, nerds. So

There are many students of Asian decent. UCI has also become the UCLA-Rejects school.

That everyone who goes to school here is asian or socially-retarded. Irvine has no college town and sucks for students. White-bread suburbia. Commuter campus with no night life.