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I think IUP has a very diverse student body. There are plenty of churches and other religious groups available to students to be a participant in. I do notice though that students who are from similar backgrounds or races tend to stick together. It is not very often that I see many blacks and whites interacting together outside of the classroom. Students do dress similarly in the sense that most girls I see are wearing "Pink" sweatpants and tank tops to class and guys wear polo shirts or Abercrombie t-shirts. When I first came to IUP I felt very self-conscious about the way I dressed, but now that I have more self-confidence about my style I tend to not pay attention to the stares. I think coming from a poorer financial background it is hard to say whether or not there are more people with a stable financial situation then others. I always tend to think there are more people who come from a better financial situation then me, but this could just be my own personal bias. I do know that students seem politically active. The recent presidential primary had many organizations on campus setting up booths and tables trying to get students to vote. It's hard to say what particular affiliation the campus on a whole would relate to, as I've met many people who are left, right, and center when it comes to politics. I discuss my potential earnings with close friends, but not ever really with someone I barely know.

I attended Campus Crusade for christ for the first 2 years of college. It was a pretty good time but once I became very busy with my major and missed some meetings and bible studies, people soon became very judgemental of me and my priorities. With these people's hypocrital judgements of me, I soon stopped going to it. But there are many other good religious organizations on campus offered to students. I am involved with my music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota and I really love that closeness of myself and that other sisters in the fraternity. Students predominantly wear comfy clothes/ jean/ sweatpants. There are a good deal of people who I see dressed up (including myself) for classes and such. some people wear PJs to their morning classes. Most IUP students are from PA but there are people from all over the country there. I am from Virginia and I know a handful who are from there too. I think, politically, students are active. The PA democrat primaries went on recently and there were a lot of students who showed support for their favorite canidate. I think that the campus is a pretty good balance between democrat and republicans. I've never really payed attention much to it.

There are a massive variety of students. Students with disabilities, students of different race, ethnicity, and religious views everyone has class together and everyone has a different perspective. This is what I love about this school. Everyone gets along and no one is prejudice. Mostly students clique with their group of people, but I have never seen anyone push out someone for being different.

Everyone is really nice and helpful. You can tell who are the freshman are on the first couple of days cause they all look lost, but the upper classman have no problem helping out the freshman finding there classes.

I think that IUP's student body is great. There isn't a lot of racial conflicts and everyone basically gets along with everyone.

IUP like any other big college has a diverse group of people attending. ALOT of people from Pittsburgh and Pilly, makes for some interesting events and always a good time when teams from those towns come together. Sports teams are all pretty chill unless you fuck with someone on the team then expect to have the whole team in rage, but thats how it should be. Alot of the black people hang out in certain parts of the caf., not to be racist but you can always tell when they are in the Caf because they are always screaming and singing and just being annoying at times, but im sure thats everywhere.

I'm a very stalwart Christian, conservative, and Republican. The IUP campus is incredibly liberal and - in the face of the coming election - very, very democratic. There's a very strong anti-Christian bias that is pervasive in every area of the academics, even in the Political Science, History, and Philosophy classes I've taken. This is the kind of student that, when stepping onto this campus, will feel like they've stepped into another world. Most students are very casual when coming to class, but if you want to get on a professor's good side, it's usually better to dress up a little. Not a suit or even a sports jacket, or business heels, but just...nicer than sweats, jeans, and low-cut shirts. Unfortunately, there is still slight racial tension on campus. After talking to students and seeing how they interact, there's still some resentment on both sides of the argument, even for foreign students. I was never a victim, but a few have claimed they are...

Most kids are from PA

my greatest experiences and some of the best relationships i have are with the people that lived in my dorm freshman year.

We have a very large student body. There are over 14,000 students. There is also a lot of diversity, which I think is a good thing. It helps us learn to interact with other groups, which prepares us for the real world later.