Virginia Commonwealth University Top Questions

Its a diverse group of students

-Richmond is dangerous -ghetto -people aren't very smart -VCU accepts everyone

We are not all medical student and we art students. We have one of the most diverse campuses around and we have a lot to offer. VCU isn't also just a commuter school. We actually had the largest incoming class of Freshmen last year who lived on campus.

Scenesters are abundant

Ultra-diverse, self-absorbed, Fuzzy, Mega

Living on an urban campus, most VCU students are preemptively assumed to fit the Richmond hipster stereotype. This stereotype includes the following physical characteristics: tight/fitted clothing, cut-off jeans, dyed hair, piercings/tattoos, aviator sunglasses, converse sneakers. Personality-wise, the stereotypical hipster smokes cigarettes, bikes everywhere, and has a generally apathetic outlook on life. The university itself is renowned for it's arts departments, and this creates the stigma that VCU is completely liberal-arts oriented. Because of this liberal-arts perception, VCU is also sometimes looked down upon by some of the more academically-oriented schools.

That all students are art students who have strange hair and wear strange clothes. Also, that they are rich white kids from the west end (a suburb of Richmond)

Always loud,know how to have fun but still manage the 3.5 GPA and always helpful. We do smile a lot also :-) VCU is an urban university,always energetic.It is a university where diversity is the main component.

I don't really pay attention to any stereotypes

They're underachievers.

Apparently we aren't that smart? I hear it's pretty easy to get into VCU but we do occasionally work hard. We just prefer to play first.

VCU is full of overly artsy students and emo dorks.

Liberals, Art Students

that it is an easy school. and that there are a wide range of people here.

I guess some of the most common stereotypes about VCU students are that we are always partying and that we are pretty dumb, as far as college students go.

That VCU kids aren't that smart since it's easy to get accepted and that we're all punk, liberal, artsy kids.

VCU is ghetto. Students come here because they couldn't get in anywhere else.

I think that a lot of people see VCU as "ghetto" because we are so integrated into the city and our campus is not really separate from like the community area surrounding it. I've heard that people think anyone can get into VCU as well.

All students are poor. VCU students are crazy art kids who run around with pink hair. There are no real student activities.

That they're rejected from other schools and come to VCU out of desperation