University of Colorado Boulder Top Questions

I am on the diversity board, work with many LGBT students, and have come across people of all socio-econ levels, as well as working with many student groups and I think they all struggle in different ways on our campus, but thrive in other ways. I think that the lack of diversity can be isolating for minority students, but that has created very strong support organizations like non-traditional greek houses student groups that help counter that. students wear jeans and t-shirts, lots of uggs and snow boots or flip flops in the summer. There are so many groups and types of students on campus that they overlap all the time and so there is a lot of interaction across schools, groups etc. at the dinning hall there is a group of highly involved student group and political people, a table of greek people, a table of party people and a table of hippie people but they sit more by dorm building than by type of person. There are a lot of students from colorado, second from CA and third probably from texas, after that it is a good mix of places. I think that student at CU are often very wealthy, but that there is a large group of students that rely on loans as well, and in most situations it doesn't separate them, I have only really seen that in the greek system and even then its certainly not everywhere or all the houses. Students are very politically aware and active, with groups like New Era colorado that work to get young people in politics and several other groups that are very large and visible on campus. I would say that boulder is mostly left but not what people would expect, Boulder Campus itself is really more left in the way that college students tend to be these days - more socially liberal. I have only noticed about people talking about what they expect to learn when I am in business classes, everyone else is just excited to be finding what they enjoy studying.

Boulder is the most accepting place possible to find. besides the lack of racial diversity represented at the school, everyone is very accpeting of whatever anyone is into. the general thought here is "if it doesn't effect me, then you can do whatever you want." and all thoughts and walks of life are accepted here.