Bates College Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Bates College?

Doug

Bates students are stereotypically crunchy and hippie-esque, love the outdoors, liberal political causes, and anything else that sends out the perception of being more socially conscious than the average college student.

Erin

Friendly, too close, smart but not necessarily competitive.

Caroline

Liberal school with many hyppies. Crunchy kids with a large focus on the outdoors. Strong academics but very liberal.

Alex

That they live in a "Bates bubble," that they're all rich.

Ryan

Crunchy

Marie

Mostly white kids from New England prep schools that weren't interesting enough for Wesleyan and didn't have the grades/athletics for the Ivy League.

Royce

Students are upper class whites from New England boarding schools. They are either ultra preppy or granola crunchy.

Sam

We're hippies, we party a lot for a school of our size, we're freindly

Sarah

Big drinking scene, rigorous academics, close knit student body, tight student-faculty interactions

Sarah

They are hippies, down to earth and friendly.