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I WAS NOT AWARE THERE WERE STEREOTYPES, MY COLLEGE IS NOT A HIGH SCHOOL

The stereotype of Ohio State students is being very intelligent and i believe that stereotype is accurate.

The stereotype is that we party hard and study hard. This stereotype is true.

At The Ohio state University the only stereotype I can think to apply to the majority of students would be that we're all Bucks! We bleed scarlet baby! Every single day you meet someone with a different lifestyle ranging from sorority girls to business students to even ukulele or quidditch players. With over 60,000 students in attendance it is virtually impossible to lump everyone into a stereotype, with the exception of the idea that we are all school spirited!

If there is a stereotype about OSU students (which, considering how diverse the school is, there may not be), it is that we tend to be "Bros." Perhaps it is because I am this way myself (an ex-high school athlete and a frequent gym-goer/weight lifter) that I consider the general perception of Ohio State students to be that we are frat-boy meat-heads, however I have found that such a large school with such a diverse population allows for its students to be labelled anything from "nerdy engineering kids, to "sweaty gorilla-armed morons" (or, you know, anything in between and probably a little bit nicer).

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I don't know if there is a common stereotype at OSU. With over 40,000 students its hard to define us. The best way I can describe us is that we are what movies portray college as. There are the frats with the preppy boys and girls, stoners and gamers that never leave their bedrooms. There are definitely jocks. But the one thing I've found interesting is that no one goes to the extreme, everyone has a little quirk. Some people may see it as people being posers but I think its just part of the campus charm.

At my school, the student body is beyond stereotypes such as these. While you still have natural "cliqueing" of students who share common experiences and even looks sometimes, it's a relatively diverse and homogenous community. There certainly is not a delineation by stereotypes such as jocks and frat kids.

Everyone associates Ohio State with partying. It's true, there are a lot of people out there who are very much into partying, but not everyone is constantly drinking. There are people out there who abstain, too.

Us students at the Ohio State University are sometimes stereotyped as Jocks, or crazed sport fans. Though, we are known as some of the most energetic fans, we also hold our educations very high.