University of California-Santa Cruz Top Questions

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.

That UCSC students are stoners, hippies, super liberal, and not incredibly studious. There are also individual stereotypes for each residential college on the campus.

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.

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.

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.

Really laid-back, "hippie" school. Pot smokers.

stereotypes: we are all stoner hippies that care about the environment and surf

Two words: Tree Hugger

The main stereotype is that all UCSC students ever do is participate in protests and get stoned.

Common stereotypes are potheads, partiers, hippies, protesters and white people.