Washington University in St Louis Top Questions

There are many different groups of people on campus. While most are white, there is a large black community and a large international community. There are some very wealthy people on campus, but generally they do not flaunt it. It is always going to be hard when people come together with different financial backgrounds. Sometimes somebody will want to go out to eat while other friends say they cannot afford it. There is a large liberal portion of the student body and that is reflected by the massive amount of campus events including sex week and LGBT week. Students are also politically involved around campus, with a recent large protest surrounding Alberto Gonzales on campus. If I would walk into Bears Den and see four different tables of people, one table would be guys and girls discussing politics, one table would be a group sitting silently with books open, one group would be discussing how wasted they were the night before, and one group would be speaking a foreign language. Remember that scene in Legally Blonde where she goes to Harvard for the first time and meets other students? And they all look at her funny and don’t understand her? Yeah that exact scene would happen at WashU if someone like that came to school here. But the student body is genuinely nice and welcoming, so I am sure that after a couple days, she would feel right at home. No students dress up for classes. Jeans are the usual with lots of layers in the winter, but you can definitely wear whatever is lying on the floor of your room as well.