Brandeis University Top Questions

The girls look great! The campus is ugly.

To an extent; there is a very high population of Jewish students here and it is overall a relatively quiet campus.

Not completely true. Yes, there are tons of Jewish people. However, you won't see or really hang out with many of the really Jewish students (orthodox, very conservative, etc) because they'll be busy hanging out with each other, not partying (in the traditional college manner), celebrating Shabbat, and going to temple. So, most of the people that you will hang out with are either mildly Jewish or not at all and enjoy partying, being social, etc. There are hot people here, just fewer. You have a better chance of finding hot people in the international population, which is good because that is a Brandeis strength (# of internationals). I personally think that the girls are better looking than the guys, but I'm a straight girl so I might be wrong.

No. While the school is 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} Jewish, there are still many people here who aren't Jewish. Also, while there are also a lot of people who are Jewish, most are not very active in Jewish activities.

Yes but no more so than for other schools; no, but we're also not a hollywood movie set; and sometimes, but it's pretty funny.

For the most part

Some of it is, sure. There are plenty of Jews, we aren't a big party school, and I know plenty of kids who study waaaay too much. But there are those of us who party, you just need to look around a little more. And not everyone is insane about the academics.

Like the answer to all the toughest questions in life: it depends. There are a lot of Brandeis students who go out of their way to connect, communicate, branch out, and have fun. But there are also many students who fit the stereotypes to a tee, so to speak. It's hard to say who holds the majority, but one stereotype that is true is that everyone is way too busy here.

I have a different word I like to use to describe Brandeis & Brandeis students: quirky. Brandeis is a quirky place, and Brandeis students are quirky people. I don't view quirky as good or bad, and it's a very open-ended word. The socially-awkward, overly-smart, or even "normal" students are all, together, quirky.

Everyone knows that Jewish girls are barely ever average and are either very hot or very not. It's true we have a lot of ugly's, but we also have a sizable population of good looking girls. A very, very small percent of the student body is actually religious Jews. You are not surrounded by religious Jews, do not 'worry'. The nice benefit is that we have crazy holidays that nobody normally celebrates where the religious Jews throw huge parties...and they drink more than everyone else, amazingly. It's wayyyy better than people talk about it being. We have fraternities and sororities, we have parties from wednesday to sunday.