Wesleyan University Top Questions

That they are mostly gay and lesbian hippies or hipsters driving around in fancy cars their parents bought for them. And that the rest are African-Americans who are interested in nothing but their race. Favorite class: Queer Minority Gender Studies

They call us everything from "hippies", "slackers", "rich-kids", "pretentious", "marijuana-sated", "party-mongers" to "where is Wesleyan? You mean Wellesley?"

Wesleyan kids are often portrayed as political activists, hipsters, hippies, or ultra-liberals.

A lot of people think Wesleyan students are pretentious artsy kids who listen to bad alternative music and wear skinny jeans. Another stereotype is that Wesleyan students are the Brown rejects.

hippies, hipsters

That they are "alternative" in pretty much any/every sense of the word.

There are a few stereotypical images that come to mind when one thinks of Wesleyan students: a dedicated vegan holding a handmade banner protesting animal abuse, an unkempt semi-intellectual positing insightful observations one of every three hand-raises, well-off econ major getting ready for Goldman Sachs after graduation, or a classic shirt-and-tie intellectual reading the entire list of recommended reading plus some for each and every assigned text. One might also envision a burned out, private school drug user, taking advantage of a supposedly ultra-liberal collegiate atmosphere. Not true, not untrue, it is indeed an interesting melting pot of what Wesleyan so endearingly--though possibly against their 'emphasis' on political correctness-- terms 'diversity.'

Hippies and hipsters; politically active

hipster, potheads, extreme liberal activists

Liberal, Active, Independent