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People think that all Richmond students are rich and preppy.

everyone is preppy, rich, snobby

Everytime I see the movie Pleasantville, I think of the students that go here. Everyone here has grown up in rich, Brady Bunch families and have no idea what it's like to live a middle class life where their parents don't provide them with the Gucci shoes that they absolutely MUST have despite the poverty in this country. It's even more ironic that half the campus pretends to work towards the good of others raising money for their fraternity's or sorority's philanthropy when in reality all it is is a huge competition to see which frat or sorority is better than the other. To wrap it up... shallow, self-centered, competitive, rich preppy students whose main concerns are themselves, their money, the way others perceive them, and oh yea.. themselves.

There are a lot. To name a few, homogeneous (white, rich, preppy, New England in the South), ambitious, extremely involved, international, strong oncampus community, Greek, beautiful campus

Richmond is a beautiful school with a huge endowment. The administrators and professors are highly concerned with the student's success, resulting in close relationships. There is usually the stereotype that richmond students are rich, stuck-up overachievers, but there are a lot of people that break that stereotype.

The stereotype of Richmond is that it lacks Diversity. It can be clearly seen with the steretypical Richmond student too; White, Upper-Class, and mostly from the North Eastern States.

preppy, affluent, white, live in a 'bubble'

Wealthy, preppy, snobby

The the University of Richmond student body is homgeneous in nature comprised of afluent white Notherners. Richmond also is plagued by an "ivory tower" image.

preppy, rich, athletic.

Some basic stereotypes about Richmond students are that everyone is rich, preppy, fratty, business majors, and white.

There is this belief that all Richmond students are rich, northern, preppy kids. We're too busy studying to have fun, they say.

The major stereotype is that Richmond students are very preppy, and have basically stepped out of a J. Crew catalog, as well as that students are very wealthy, and that everyone is involved in Greek life and from New Jersey.

Richmond students are thought of as Type-A personalities who are often Northern and preppy. This stereotype has changed some though since I was a freshman and is not as apparent anymore. The Type-A part is still relatively true because students are so competitive and want to do well in their classes. Often, academic sacrifices take away from other things. Students here are also over-committed because they want to be involved in so many things. We would probably benefit from cutting back and chilling out a little bit. The preppiness is fading though and as the years have gone on I have met more diverse students.

Richmond students only care about academics. Richmond students are super preppy. Richmond students live in a bubble. Richmond is lacking in diversity.

All richmond students are wealthy and most are from the northeast

Being from California I did not know any stereotypes before I attended. But I've heard that Richmond students supposedly walked right out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.

Some stereotypes are that everyone here is really rich and snobby and that we all wear designer clothes everyday.

I once was on a scavenger hunt, and one of the things we had to find was a person wearing a pink shirt with a popped collar. Suffice it to say that it was not the hardest item on the list to find. The stereotypical Richmond student is either upper-middle class or wealthier, drives a Mini, wears designer clothing, and either plays a sport or is in a fraternity/sorority.

Richmond students are definitely stereotyped as all being rich, preppy, white kids, and some will even say that we're all stuck up.