University of Nebraska-Lincoln Top Questions

Big university = big party school Life revolves around Husker football.

The Greek system is for spolied kids that pay for their friends!

A lot of farm boys and girls from small towns, everyone is a huge Husker fan, we hang out in cornfields

Everybody loves Husker Football. The students weren't smart enough to get into schools on the coasts. Lincoln is a farming community and all the students are in agriculture studies.

The two most common stereotypes are that UNL is a party school and that it's student body are football nuts.

The big one that I think of is that in order to "be" someone you have to be in a fraternity or sorority.

red necks, boring, very nice, conservative

The main stereotype i hear is that we're all cornfed hillbillys. I think we're also known for our Nebraska football tradition.

I can only derive from some sports articles that UNL is only concerned with Football and that the University is full of right-wing rednecks.

One stereotype of UNL that I heard about before I came here is that it is not a very diverse campus of students in regards to ethnicity.

All we have here is corn and football!

That it's full of farmers because it's corn country. Coming here I thought there would be nothing but the University and corn fields for days. There were both, but the city of Lincoln is quite big and definitely accommodates the college atmosphere very well!

its in a corn field, we ride horses everywhere still

That they are hicks and small town kids.

People tend to think that because students attend a college in Nebraska, they are not as well educated as schools on the coasts. People seem to think that everyone in Nebraska lives on a farm, is a farmer, or is uneducated.

I dont know any for sure. But I would imagine people think UNL and its students are hics.

Crazy football fans.

We are all hicks and cowboys.

One major stereotype about UNL is that every one on campus drinks or does drugs or does both.

hicks, football freaks, smart