Connie
UCSC is stereotyped as a hippie school, and is said to be filled with drugs and alcohol. I have to say that the majority of this university is completely drug free and very school orienteted. People work very hard here, and the departments here are incredible. Some professors are known around the nation, and there is a diverse group of students here that are interesting, and you find yourself meeting people you would have never thought even existed.
Bryan
That UCSC students are stoners, hippies, super liberal, and not incredibly studious. There are also individual stereotypes for each residential college on the campus.
Emily
The words "weed" and "hippies" are synonymous with UC Santa Cruz. Another stereotype is that the students party all the time and were too dumb to get into any another college, or came here for the express purpose of dropping acid and wandering through the woods.
April
Most people think about UCSC students as being druggies, punk rockers, or new-age hippies. When I tell people I go to Santa Cruz, they think I smoke a ton of weed or live in the forest and camp a lot. The most common stereotype is the stoner stereotype, because Santa Cruz does have a huge population of pot smokers.
Lauren
I've heard often that people think UCSC students don't take their grades seriously - that everyone here smokes pot constantly, and everyone wants to be free-thinkers, and that everyone is a total hippie. And then there's the stereotypes within the different colleges - Porter college is for the hippie/druggie crowd, Crown is the nerd college, Merill is for LGBT kids, et cetera.
Tristan
Really laid-back, "hippie" school. Pot smokers.
KJ
stereotypes: we are all stoner hippies that care about the environment and surf
Bobby
Two words: Tree Hugger
Jessica
The main stereotype is that all UCSC students ever do is participate in protests and get stoned.
Willow
Common stereotypes are potheads, partiers, hippies, protesters and white people.
Ciara
A big stereotype is that we're all hippies and massive stoners, oh and also big party people. It is said that UCSC is like a city on the hill and is it's own little environment apart from Santa Cruz.
Katie
That all UCSC students are dirty hippies or surfers who walk around barefoot protesting the removal of trees and/or other environmental causes.
Alex
That we are all slacker pot-head hippies.
Blake
A bunch of liberal crazy hippy stoners
Jesse
stoners, slackers, lazy, rich bros, white.
laura
Its a party school. The academics are not very strong.
Blake
Stereotypes would definetley have to include the "hippie" stereotype, "pothead" stereotype, "party school"
Colin
Everyone thinks its a bunch of hippies who sit around and smoke weed all day and classes are a joke... well guess what, i thought that at first and did't want to come here until after the first week of class i opened my eyes. Classes were aready real serious, most of the people here were regular people, and most people had the same initial stereotypes when getting here.
Casey
UCSC is stereotyped as an artistic school that's not all that hard, full of burnt-out hippies. The stereotype is that the students are all potheads, druggies, artists and hippies. Supposedly we all have dreads, wear hemp clothing, and don't bathe.
Ben
Lots of Weed and active students.