University of Denver Top Questions

My classmates are well-off, polite, enthusiastic, and motivated.

Artistic, energenic, creative, and always willing to lend a helping hand.

Students at DU work hard but party harder.

Students at DU are motivated, encouraging and determined to succeed in classes, group projects and the world around them. There is something to learn from every person one gets to know at DU because of different backgrounds, beliefs, interests and personalities.

Outgoing, committed, professional, diverse, driven, intelligent.

Like I mentioned before I basically hate the student body at DU. If your not rich, white and drive a BMW you might as well pack up... As many are all to aware DU lacks ethnicty, and I definitely understand why. No one in their right mind would want to come to this campus if they were of color, you would immediately feel out of place. DU NEEDS TO WORK ON THAT...

I would say DU has a pretty tolerant campus, but it is not diverse. It is 85{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white. But the people who are here all get along, regardless of color, religion, etc. There are definitely a lot of international students. Students are pretty politically active. The numbers say it is a pretty conservative student body, I personally feel more of a liberal presence. Most of the students do come from very wealthy backgrounds though, keep that in mind.

sometimes I feel like lower middle class students might feel a bit out of place. As far as what students wear...girls wear Uggs and guys are usually wearing sports stuff or polos. Definitely higher end clothing; I wear sweatpants, basketball shorts and sometimes pajamas. I'm all about comfort. I think most of DU students are liberal/democrats, and it seems to be sort of an unwritten law that everyone agrees on. I never ran into anyone arguing over political views. Overall, I think a great portion of the kids at DU care about money. It's a really expensive school, so must students have wealthy families where money is very important.

I have experienced relatively no diversity especially in the business school. If you're looking for varrying groups of people with passionate and varrying ideas or different tastes in music or people who enjoy different passtimes, look somewhere else. Most students are supported by their parents, live in dorms or houses in the surrounding neighborhoods. Most listen to popular hip-hop and go to house parties. I am sure that I am overgeneralizing a bit but I've really struggled to find the types of people you expect at a university. Where are the hippies? Where are the political activists? punk rockers? philosophers? The culture here is very one track.

Queer community supported by university but sometimes looked down upon by students. If you are queer, you will want to consider larger, more liberal colleges. This is not to say that the university is religious, students have just lived sheltered lives and are inexperienced in dealing with different types of people.