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Some students are politically active, probably more than on the majority of college campuses, but there are plently that have no interest in politics. Yes, there are a lot more girls than guys but it's not as noticable as I thought it would be.

All of these are accurate.

No, though greek life isn't as GW's.

With a tuition of $40,000 a year, there are some wealthy kids here, but many people I know are on scholarship, so I don't feel like you need to be a member of the country club to fit in here. We are something like 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white, but there's not much prejudice and we have a large percentage of abroad students here, so I don't feel like it's a problem.

can't say it's entirely false, but it doesn't represent THAT large of a demographic

Some of the stereotypes -- like American students coming here because of financial aid, American students getting involved in politics -- are true. But American isn't everyone's last choice (it certainly wasn't mine), and there are tons of intelligent, hardworking, committed students here.

relatively

No, there are a good mix of students, but there is a large female to male ratio.

A noticeable amount of the guys are gay.

No