Vassar College Top Questions

Diverse.

My classmates are extremely diverse, well-rounded, confident, and accepting individuals with a passion for learning and experiencing new things on a daily basis.

Your classmates will be interesting, all of them; everyone is passionate about something so you are constantly learning from them.

The student body is very diverse. The school definitely leans liberal, but there are moderate/conservatives on campus, they just don't make their political beliefs too well known. Vassar students are very accepting of varying genders/sexualities, and people are comfortable in their own skin. There are plenty of international students, but the bulk of the student body comes from the NY area and CA.

Intelligent, engaged, and interesting. Usually outgoing, fun-loving, liberal (mostly) minded individuals.

Virtually everyone is very intelligent, up-to-date with current events, and have intellectual conversations. Vassar's student body is diverse in every sense of the word. This isn't like Williams or Princeton, where the culture is very limited/white/New England. Everyone here is shockingly different. Over 60{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of Vassar students enjoy the college's generous financial aid. Most would say that Vassar is overwhelmingly liberal, but I would say that there are more moderate, conservative students here than many might think. Our Moderate, Independent and Conservative Alliance (MICA) has become increasingly active. I really do think there's a healthy political balance on campus.

Artsy, often hipsters, but rarely snobish or cliquey.

Unclassifiable.

Engaging, lively, talented, and artistic individuals with specific and strong passions.

My classmates are rich and pretentious but also brilliant, good-hearted, and artistic.

Very friendly people who do not hesitate to help and challenge me to go one step further in learning something new and accomplishing new goals.

My classmates are usually as excited as I am to be there.

Crazy.

Friendly, helpful, smart. People are very nice and, for the most part, non-judgmental, although sometimes not tolerant of coservative political views. Students know how to have fun but school work always comes first. Fortunately, everyone is smart and organized enough to parcel out their time effectively such that school work is done on time and you don't miss out on any social activities.

By and large cool people who take themselves way too seriously and conduct their lives like they always have something to prove. Incredibly brilliant but insecure people who by and large really don't know who they are or what they want to be, so they choose to emulate what they see as different and hip, often inadvertently casting themselves as major douchebags.

snobby, hipster

There is such a variety of students at Vassar: creed, color, economic background, sexual orientation. There is a place for everyone at Vassar, and the community is very accepting to all students.

Open minded, well spoken, smart, funny,

Hipsters and hippies.

Most Vassar students are white, upper-middle class, liberal suburban kids. Many don't act like it and everyone is very open, but it's a fairly homogeneous population. I'd imagine it would be fairly difficult to be a conservative on campus (although there are a few, and those few can back it up like none of the liberals I've ever talked to). Most students are at least socially liberal.