University of California-Santa Barbara Top Questions

party school, hottest UC

Everyone thinks we party too hard, don't get any work done, and drink too much.

People think of UCSB as the smart party school. The students know how to work hard and play hard. Students are stereotyped as being party-crazy, drunks, beach bums, or blonde bimbos.

That we drink too much.

Many stereotypes about UCSB are that is it just a big party school and that is it. Also, that students here are unintelligent and unfocused. When a parent asked me as a senior where i was going and responded with UCSB, they said "you're too smart for that." People seem to look at UCSB as a joke in some ways.

That they know how to study hard and play hard. They are also stereotyped as attractive and unfortunately not diverse.

We seem to be labeled as primarily blonde surfing beach bunnies who love to party.

partying, drugs, beautiful people, wealthy and white, promiscuous

Some stereotypes are that all we do is party and lay out in the sun. I mean at least people are half right. What bothers me though is that people don't realize that the majority of the people attending UCSB are really intelligent and are also dedicated about academics.

Pretty, superficial, slutty, party school, do a lot of drugs, binge drink way too much, dirty and have a lot of STDs.