University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Top Questions

That we're all jocks, super intellectuals, or rich.

"They are snobby, rude city students."

That we're all mediocre, of average intelligence, and spend most of our time doing hard drugs and going to lame frat parties.

not sure

Overall, Pitt students are viewed as far superior to Penn State students.

They party a lot The frats rape girls, especially SAE

I'm not really sure I have actually heard any stereotypes that pertain to Pitt students. Pitt is probably one of the fewer school's that actually aren't frowned upon (to my knowledge) in the state of Pennsylvania.

None that I know of

Since Carnegie Mellon University is so near, there is a tendency to think that students at Pitt are dumb, because they are at Pitt instead of CMU...there is a similar tendency to think that since none of the branch campuses are far away, the only reason a student would go to them is that s/he could not get into the main campus.

Some say that Pitt is a party school...it is.

The opinion of the other city colleges of Pitt students is that of (mostly) highly intelligent students who enjoy the social aspect of college more than for example, Carnegie Mellon students.

That compared to Carnegie Mellon we're all dumb.

It is a city campus. It is too far away from home (Central and Eastern PA kids).

The frat boys are lame. research professors could care less about students. there is ALWAYS stuff to do in Oakland/Pittsburgh. if you get too drunk and lost, just look up to the horizon and follow the Cathedral of Learning, i.e. the "Drunken Compass." Living is South Oakland sucks, the houses there are straight up broke.

Idiotic frat boys and sorostitutes.

A lot of people believe that Pitt is full of either athletes or people who couldn't make it into Carnegie Mellon.

A lot of smart and talented high school students look at Pitt as a "safety school" and only want to enroll if their top-choice ivys don't accept them.

A lot of people think that Pitt is a concrete jungle, a bunch of buildings tossed in the middle of downtown. Fresh air, what? "Pitt's campus doesn't really exist." And because it's in a city, there's nothing to do on their so-called campus.

Small campus, intimate setting

That we aren't as smart as our CMU counterparts and that we are better partiers than our Duquesne neighbors.