University of Washington-Seattle Campus Top Questions

UW students come equipped with Northface Jackets, Nalgene bottles, and iPods. UW students are extremely liberal

I haven't herd any.

Asian

Tree hugging hippies, I guess.

It rains a lot.

It rains too much.

The highest profile group of students are the greek-going business admin types. Because they move in mass, they carry much weight at the university. Lower profile, but contributing much more to the academics are the science research, pre-med, computer science types. Unless you're in their program, though, you don't see them much. A smaller percentage of us--and I don't know what the hell we're doing here--are more hippie, organic, traveler, free thinker types.

That everyone wears North Face, that no one uses umbrellas, that the dorms suck, and that everyone is from in-state.

There are a lot stereotypes regarding Asians, really nerdy people and the greek system--especially regarding the rich population.

The wonderful thing about Washington is its weather. It contains all kinds of weather in the earth that everybody can enjoy, such as raining, snowing, sunny,...The weather in washington is variable, but the hard work of students is stable. On the street in any weekday, visitors are able to see washington students who are walking or waiting for the bus to get to school.

Everyone is really smart and we have a lot of asians as well as being very liberal.

1) That UW is a huge party school and that if you go here you are bound to party a lot. This isn't true. The school is big enough that you can find whatever you want. If you want to party, you can party every night for a month. If you don't want to party, there is very little pressure for you to party. 2) Because UW is a big school, it is assumed that everyone has tons of school pride. I am not into wearing tons of purple; I don't really understand fanatical school pride. There are tons of people that wear almost all purple, but most people don't care. Almost everyone has a Washington sweatshirt, but beyond that, i doesn't really matter.

UW students are very smart, because to get accepted, you have to be.

The state of Washington is a diverse state, as I know from having lived on both sides of the mountain. People from the Seattle area, because of its history with Microsoft and Boeing and other rich industries, have a reputation for being elitist coffee-drinkers and being extremely liberal politically. It's always raining, so the clothes people wear are designed more for the weather than for fashion. It also breeds environmental activists, hybrid-car drivers and hiking enthusiasts. Because of UW's size, the campus community is very diverse, but as a whole students tend to have more money and better high-school transcripts than other public schools in the state.

intelligent, very liberal, socialists, high grades, activists

I haven't come across any. I come a very diverse place and i think washington is pretty well rounded.

Pretentious, snobby, rich, white, into indie rock, super nice, too nice, passive-aggressive, techie-obsessed,

There are a lot of asians that go to school here and the school is huge in every respect.

We're a step up from all the other universities in the state in terms of education.

The University of Washington is too laid back. Students are too laid back to really care about achieving. The University of Washington satellite campuses are not as good as the Seattle campus.