Grinnell College Top Questions

The students are "nerds." The students on South are artsy and the students on North are jocks.

Grinnell is known as the "granola" school, where the students worry less about fashion and personal hygiene and more about their academic and extra-curric work. We seem to be mostly liberal, activists, and very interested in personal expression and originality. Students are very friendly, open, and accepting.

I've heard us called a "hate free" campus and I've heard us called the "Harvard of the midwest." We're pretty diverse, and I've met a lot of different ethnicities who I will consider my friends for years to come.

White, Nerdy, Pretentious, Socially Awkward, Midwestern, Hippies.

Grinnell women are ugly, everybody's REALLY liberal

that they are kind of dorky, quirky, smart and engaged in their classes. that they work hard but that they play hard too.

That we are sketchy.

They study all the time, they are extremely liberal, and they are hippie/"granola"

that there are no cute girls, that classes are extremely difficult, that there is nothing to do in Grinnell, that Grinnell students are only braniacs and don't know how to have fun

About students: that they are nice, that they are a little awkward, that they are considerate.