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Some people here (researchers, Pre-med, Honors) are better influences than others (tri-weekly drinkers).

UMD is composed of a diverse student body. Students come from all over the world and are of various racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Many students stay within their own race/ ethnic group, instead of branching out and interacting with people from other diverse backgrounds. However, we have various groups on campus, such as Multiracial/ Biracial Student Association and Community Roots, who work actively to expose and combat these and other issues. The majority of students are White. However there is a large Asian population and a significant number of other minority groups due to the large student population overall. Students are politically aware and very active in human rights, social change, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. UMD students are openminded, green, and supportive of the LGBT community.

I don't even need to leave a long answer for this question - UMD is full of all types of people! There are student groups for every possible race, religion, sexual affiliation, ethnicity, and interest. Even within my fairly small major, Animal Science, which you might think would be a bunch of conservative farmer types, I have classes with men, women, lesbians, gays, and a variety of races. There is no discrimination, everyone treats everyone else equally. I have NEVER seen a student berate or discriminate against another based on any of those factors. There are also students from a wide variety of economic backgrounds. Even in my closest group of friends there are people who could not get a job and live off of their parents wealth for the next three generations and there are others who work three jobs just to be able to pay rent, student loans, and eat at the end of each week. As for political affiliations, I would say there are more liberals here than conservatives, although like I said before, there is a group for everything and if you look you will find people that you have things in common with! And even if you don't look, chances are they will find you! On a typical day, there is no telling what students will wear to class. Some people dress up for class every single day, although I will say I have only seen a handful of folks that wear suits/heels to class every day. Most students wear jeans and whatever and some come to class in their PJs every day. For me, it all depends on how much I oversleep! If I hit snooze one too many times I will be at class in sweats, if not its usually jeans and a hoodie because no one wants to sit through a 75 minute lecture on the nutritional requirements of a lactating dairy cow without being comfy!

My classmates are all hardworking and helpful.

my classmates are very friendly and helpful.

Classmates were friendly, willing to help, somewhat cliquish but not extensively, and very diverse.

My classmates are very driven individuals who set high life expectations for themselves.

Truely a melting pot, or rather a salad bowl.

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You will meet all sorts of people.