Nicholas
Many people associate a preppy, elitist, spoiled, and conservative student body with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Like many stereotypes, this one holds some truth. Most UVa students come from the privileged suburbs of Washington D.C. and seem to have an endless flow of money from their parents. This sort of privilege translates as naivete and immaturity. Additionally, the UVa student body is primarily homogenous: many students dress similarly or listen to the same music or do the same things on the weekend. These interests and preferences all tend to be preppy, elitist, or conservative. However, many UVa students absolutely do not fit this mold. UVa is a large enough school that one can find any type of student. Perhaps if you are less conventional a bit more work will go into "finding your niche," but if you are willing to seek creative, interesting, and even bizarre people, you will surely find them. Most importantly, many people at UVa are smart, open-minded, and have a broad array of interests. So, to a large extent, the stereotypes are accurate, but there are many exceptions.
Taylor
The stereotype of the students at the University of Virginia is that all of the students are snobby, rich kids who join sororities and fraternities and party all of the time. This stereotype is not completely accurate. One of the surprising things when coming to UVA was how smart everyone here is. The students here work very hard, and are committed to excellence in the classroom. While there are a lot of sororities and fraternities, the portion of people involved in greek life is not overwhelming. Everyone here is actually very friendly, so the stereotype that holds the least truth is definitely the snobby aspect.
Marelle
When I was searching for colleges, I knew that the University of Virginia had a less than sterling reputation for its student population. From almost every college search book, I understood that my future college-to-be was full of preppy, rich, white kids, whose extra-curricular activities include driving BMWs, Greek life, and more Greek life. What did I find out? Well, Greek life is a big deal, and some students do have a pretty nice set of wheels. But athletics are a big deal. And so is music, art, and drama. And so is engineering, astronomy, and ultimate frisbee. And let me tell you, WAY more students drive 2002 Honda Accords than BMWs. I have never met someone at this university that "only" fit the stereotype, and had nothing else interesting to talk to me about (because I'm not big on Greek life). Once you are in the classroom, making new friends and hearing how broad-minded and imaginative your classmates are, you will immediately realize that there is way more to people than the threat of their "stereotype." I mean, we even have an organization on grounds that makes t-shirts reading "Stereotype Me," where every student is encouraged to write their own slogan or label, to break the bad habit of judging people for what others see on the surface.
Marelle
When I was searching for colleges, I knew that the University of Virginia had a less than sterling reputation for its student population. From almost every college search book, I understood that my future college-to-be was full of preppy, rich, white kids, whose extra-curricular activities include driving BMWs, Greek life, and more Greek life. What did I find out? Well, Greek life is a big deal, and some students do have a pretty nice set of wheels. But athletics are a big deal. And so is music, art, and drama. And so is engineering, astronomy, and ultimate frisbee. And let me tell you, WAY more students drive 2002 Honda Accords than BMWs. I have never met someone at this university that "only" fit the stereotype, and had nothing else interesting to talk to me about (because I'm not big on Greek life). Once you are in the classroom, making new friends and hearing how broad-minded and imaginative your classmates are, you will immediately realize that there is way more to people than the threat of their "stereotype." I mean, we even have an organization on grounds that makes t-shirts reading "Stereotype Me," where every student is encouraged to write their own slogan or label, to break the bad habit of judging people for what others see on the surface.
Taylor
The stereotype of the students at the University of Virginia is that all of the students are snobby, rich kids who join sororities and fraternities and party all of the time. This stereotype is not completely accurate. One of the surprising things when coming to UVA was how smart everyone here is. The students here work very hard, and are committed to excellence in the classroom. While there are a lot of sororities and fraternities, the portion of people involved in greek life is not overwhelming. Everyone here is actually very friendly, so the stereotype that holds the least truth is definitely the snobby aspect.
Marelle
When I was searching for colleges, I knew that the University of Virginia had a less than sterling reputation for its student population. From almost every college search book, I understood that my future college-to-be was full of preppy, rich, white kids, whose extra-curricular activities include driving BMWs, Greek life, and more Greek life. What did I find out? Well, Greek life is a big deal, and some students do have a pretty nice set of wheels. But athletics are a big deal. And so is music, art, and drama. And so is engineering, astronomy, and ultimate frisbee. And let me tell you, WAY more students drive 2002 Honda Accords than BMWs. I have never met someone at this university that "only" fit the stereotype, and had nothing else interesting to talk to me about (because I'm not big on Greek life). Once you are in the classroom, making new friends and hearing how broad-minded and imaginative your classmates are, you will immediately realize that there is way more to people than the threat of their "stereotype." I mean, we even have an organization on grounds that makes t-shirts reading "Stereotype Me," where every student is encouraged to write their own slogan or label, to break the bad habit of judging people for what others see on the surface.
Jesse
Fratty and Sratty, pretty southern and progressive. Some believe in "popped collars" though they don't really exist on grounds anywhere. People think UVa is preppy, when really the only preppy kids are the rich fratstars. The girls are hot and we party pretty damn hard, so most of the stereotypes are true
Ajamu
Stereotypes of students: Frat culture, Preppy, Intellectual, well diverse
Joel
The stereotype of students at my school is that they are very preppy. This is an accurate stereotype.
Juliana
That people are every prepy and hat it is mostly an all-american, all white school. This is not true UVA is very diverse. I am international student and have many international friends thanks to the University of Virginia.