Brown University Top Questions

As a result of our open-minded academic philosophy, one unfortunate stereotype is that Brown students don't take their education as seriously as students at other schools. For example, people take note of our option to take any class S/NC, and then say things like "Brown doesn't have grades."

Ivy League aka hard academics very liberal free-thinking we're lazy because we get to pick our own classes

very liberal, laid back atmosphere, hippies

very different, weird, unconventional, a lot of homosexuals

Hippies, druggies, VERY liberal

The stereotype is that Brown students are all hippies.

That we're all cushy sandal wearing intellectual liberals who smoke weed, make our own clothes and talk about literature all the time.

chill but very smart, driven, hard-working, multi-talented. you're always finding out something that they're good at. open to talking about a lot, even spiritual matters. non-conformist, like everyone else at brown liberal into community service creative

Brown students are often stereotyped as left-wing radicals that enjoy smoking far too much weed and are not as career-oriented as students at other Ivy League schools.

Crunchy, granola-y type kids who smoke a lot of weed and don't study