University of Richmond Top Questions

Richmond is a place where every student has a different story, and if you look past the surface, you'll find interesting backgrounds and lots of different kinds of people.

Only rich kids can go there.

Extremely rich. Rediculously preppy.

There is a stereotype that most of UR's population consists of rich snobby white kids.

We are extremely preppy, fratty, etc.

Everybody is rich and snobby. URichmond is a southern school so everyone dresses up to classes, football games, etc.

Richmond I think is stereotyped as a school with a lot of wealthy/preppy students. Richmond is also stereotyped as a school with not a lot of school spirit.

The biggest stereotype about Richmond students is that they are wealthy white kids from New England, New Jersey, and New York.

There is the predominant stereotype that everyone here is rich, preppy, and snobby.

That everyone is preppy and rich

It consists of a wealthy student body that leads a very preppy lifestyle. A lot of white kids that are supposedly intellectual and ambitiously career-oriented.

when i was looking at schools, everything about richmond called it the university of rich men. i heard that it was extremely preppy and extremely conservative on the whole.

Preppy, Heavily Influenced by Northeasterners, Wealthy, Low Racial Diversity

very rich, well dressed, preppy, cliquish

That most are snobby or either stuck up.

Some steriotypes about Richmond are that it is an incredibly homogeneous student body, the students lack the ability to think analytically and creatively, and that it is a school for the very wealthy.

It's hard for me to pick out stereotypes because I never knew any, and then once I got here I made my own decisions. But considering the lofty tuition, I'd say its a generalization that all UR students are rich and snobby. Also people might think they are very socially exclusive.

Snobby, rich, attractive, smart

That we're all rich, snobby and clique-y, that our lives revolve around being and going Greek, and that we're all preppy white kids.

ALL WHITE AND RICH AND SNOBBY