Vassar College Top Questions

Vassar students are known for being brilliant, outside-the-box thinkers who tackle large and thorny problems in surprising ways. They're athletic, ambitious, and competitive -- but in a friendly way.

Some people associate Vassar with snobby girls who wear pearls; others, with politically correct hippies. Most stereotypes involve the students being rich kids.

When I thought of Vassar as a high school student, I thought of them as being extremely motivated to succeed. They are also known for holding multiple interests and studying many varied subjects—the Pre-Med guy with a minor in English, the Economics student with a double major in Urban Studies. Vassar students are definitely known for pursuing many academic and extracurricular activities, and giving each one their all.

Hipsters, hipsters, hipsters. "The music I listen to is so new it hasn't even been recorded yet. But it will be. Next year. In the lead singer's cousin's garage. And it will be the best thing ever created." All of the guys on campus are either gay, taken, or assholes.

Common stereotypes about Vassar students.

Common Vassar Stereotypes

Common Vassar stereotypes

Common Vassar stereotypes

Common Vassar stereotypes

A student explains the common stereotypes about Vassar.

1. still an all girls' school 2. very liberal 3. not very religious

Vassar students are all liberal, rich, socialists and gay/lesbian. Vassar students are idealistic Vassar is still an all women's school Vassar is not a good place to study science Vassar students all use drugs

Hippies, gay, extremely liberal

Hard-worker, Fun-loving, Big Homosexual Population, Artsy Fartsy, Too Many Hipsters, Small, Intelligent, Potheads, Werid, Not as weird as you think--people just come to have/witness a weird college experience without themselves being weird, Caring Professors, The Vassar Bubble-removed, Lots of FOBs

That everyone is gay/lesbian. That we are a bunch of drugged up hippies OR that the only style at Vassar is hipster.

A Vassar student is that mysterious shadow lurking in the corner, smoking behind a neon pair of Wayfarers. A Vassar student will lecture you on underground trip hop, expound on the advantages of freeganism, and explain to you why your mom is a social construct at the drop of a cigarette butt. They will write poetry from your dog's perspective in free verse. On the whole, Vassar students are pretentious, artistically tortured, awkward, and obnoxious as hell.

Hipsters, pretentious, gay, artsy, uber-liberal. words like heteronormative are common.

"different", homosexual, crazy, artsy

Stereotypes of Vassar kids are that they are all super liberal, artsy hipsters. I think that the stereotype of Vassar as a stuck-up girls school also survives among some people.

Well I guess we sort of stereotype ourselves as a mix of hipsters and hippies, of which almost everyone is slightly weirder than the average person in the outside world. And also that we're all liberals.