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Good lookin ladies Party hard the cops here suck everyone is from iowa or chicago area many students are "bro" douchebags Iowa Tailgate

There are the rich kids from Chicago who use their parents' money to drink themselves stupid at the bars every night of the week. There are the honors students who take school seriously and are involved in tons of activities. There are the foreign kids who are studying at the library constantly. There are the grad students who are aspiring writers, med students and law students who you'll find hanging out in all the coffee shops (and you wish they would leave so you can find somewhere to sit).

I'll give you a combination of my own stereotypes of Iowa and ones that came up when I Google searched "Iowa Stereotypes". For some reason, when everyone thinks of Iowa, they think of a giant, flat field of corn where everyone drives their tractors to school. or horses. Oh, and apparently we're drunk. All the time. Because of Football. And we don't do anything except watch our flat fields of corn grow. It's also a stereotype that all of the people that didn't get in at University of Illinois comes to University of Iowa. And for some reason, despite the supposed perpetual drunken state we're all in, The UI community is thought to be extremely conservative.

Many people have the preconceived notion that there is nothing to do in Iowa - that all of the students sit around in a corn field and watch grass grow.

That Iowa is only a party school.

That it is a complete party school and bar scene and hard to get work done and do good in class.

Drinking school. Friendly Iowans.

We party a lot, lots of bars, most people drink

They're all drunks.

Well, The major ones are that everybody is from Illinois, and it does seem that way sometimes. Another is that people from Iowa wear jean shorts, or as we call them, "Jorts." The worst one, by far, is that Iowa is a school that takes University of Illinois rejects

IDK-all from chicago lol I haven't heard any that stick seriously

Iowa is usually thought of as the state that's full of corn and hicks. However, people that are more familiar with Iowa, especially The University of Iowa, view our school as one of the top party schools in America.

That Iowa is a party school and Iowa students are rich and preppy

Iowa is boring/there is nothing to do. Everyone is a farmer/goober. The football team takes precedence over academics. The student body is stupid and drunk.

People think Iowa is a big party school. The bars here are 19 and extremely easy to get into. People also believe that the girls are easy and the boys are fine!

Rich brats from Chicago and farm kids from rural Iowa-it's mostly true. All white-also true Lots of good looking (and loose) girls

I think the biggest stereotype Iowa has is the drinking and the partying that the Iowa students do here.

parties, lots of bars downtown, athletic due to football team, basketball, tennis, rowing, etc. , lots of sororities and fraternities

Big Partiers

Lots of people think we all grew up on farms, that we are studying farming/corn, that we all know a lot about corn, and some people still think we grow potatoes. There are also people who think all Iowa has is a bunch of corn. People think we are all just a bunch of white kids and that there is no diversity on campus.