Northwestern University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Northwestern University?

Alex

nerds, all we do is study

Madison

Awkward, dorky, rich, stuck-up (these are all negative of course, as most stereotypes are)

Justin

Nerds, theater geeks, Asians, hipsters... Anyone who could score high enough on their SATs to get into a top school, but for whatever reason picked a (more) laid-back college experience than Yale, or other schools like that.

Katherine

Boring, very smart, socially awkward

Carrie

A lot of people say that Northwestern students are socially awkward Ivy League rejects, and also that there's no dating scene at Northwestern.

Natalie

Nerdy/little social life.

Adrian

That we're pretentious, think too highly of ourselves. That we're a bunch of rich kids.

Gabriel

NERDwestern. Second-choice school.

Dylan

Study a lot.

Reese

well-off and well-rounded