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Most classrooms are small enough settings to get to know the people you are sitting around, and the Professor will most likely know your name by the end of the semester.

Some of them are vacuous, others are worthwhile...you must try to find the good ones.

studetns wear sweats and tshirts to class- bussiness people wear nicer clothes than arts and sciences- just saying.... sometimes you have those one or two people who always dress up for class----absolutley no collar popping if you do like to pop a collar occasionally do it at Miami not here

UD tends to have a mostly homogenous community. There is a decent amount of rcial and religious diversity but overall its a catholic caucasian college. Since UD is a private school and therefore very expensive there are also people who are pretty well off here. Still, you have no idea who has money around here until you get to know them. People are not flashy and do not flaunt wealth around here. For me, getting dressed up for class is wearing jeans and not sweatpants and everybody else is pretty much the same way. My typical attire is shorts and a t shirt, nothing fancy. If you are dressed up people think you have a presentation for class. No one cares what kind of clothes you wear and what kind of car you drive. I do not think anyone would feel out of place here. There is a place for everyone. As at any school people tend to hang out with the people they most identify with but no one is ever shunned or made to feel unwelcome to any group of people. If there were four tables in the dining hall one would be athletes, one would be more of the intellectual type, another would be more of the partying type, and another would be more of a mix of everything. Most UD students are from the midwest but there are also students from all over the world here. Students are somewhat politically aware and through classes are made more aware of the world around them. Students sometimes talk about how much they will earn someday but its usually the people who are getting a degree in something that isn't going to make very much and know that.

Diverse populations might feel out of place, as currently UD is mostly a Midwestern caucasian campus, although this is improving. Typical students are from St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Indianapolis. Most groups are given a good deal of freedom to move around campus, however recently Amnesty International's campus chapter was forced to rename itself following the change in Amnesty's change in posistion towards abortion. This caused a minor uproar on campus. UD students are a t-shirt and jean kind of college. North Face jackets are common as well, but collared shirts are only worn on weekends.