University of Wisconsin-Madison Top Questions

Stereotypes. Wisconsin students and lewd, crude and uncontrollable. We party hard and all the time, but somehow find the time to study. We all come from farms and are crazy liberals.

There's definitely a stereotype of Wisconsin students being rowdy alcoholics. I would also say there's a stereotype about the large number of Asian Americans who attend school here.

Very liberal, very white, that the students are all from rural areas .

Most of the stereotypes revolve around how we party pretty hard.

Liberal, smart, partyers. There student population of too diverse to really have that many stereotypes - there's coasties, farmers from Wisconsin, students from Illinois and Minnesota.

That there is a division between public dorm "sconnies" and private dorm "coasties". also that we're huge partiers.

There's a large divide between "coasties" and "sconnies" - the coasties are rich, stuck-up and conceited - whereas the "sconnies" are hopelessly naive, overweight and territorial.

That they are all white. That the people who come from out of state are rich, stuck up, "coasties." That the people who come from in-state are farmers/hicks "sconnies."

Stereotypes about UW students from the East or West coast is they are rich, dumb, and obnoxious.

they like to study hard and party harder