Washington and Lee University Top Questions

W&L is commonly known as rich, white, and Southern. students are stereotyped as overprivileged, wealthy snobs sometimes. the campus is vastly white and known for being homogenous. people don't generally expect to find unique or different individuals here. W&L is also rumored to be full of heavy drinkers and drug users, perhaps thanks to the huge fraternity/soroity scene that W&L is also known for.

Students are rich, white, southern, conservative, Greek.

W&L students are typically affluent, preppy, and Southern, to be kind. Although to W&L's credit, the amount of diversity on campus is increasing. In general, everyone's exceptionally smart, but our social scene is pretty hard-core. Alcohol can be obtained quite easily on and off campus, if one desires.

Rich, pretty, stuck up, smart, crazy, drug abusers

a southern school with an emphasis on the greek life. Also famous for speaking tradition and intimate community/tightly knit, student faculty relationships

everyone is obscenely rich, preppy, and obnoxious. everyone gets drunk constantly. students are conservative, unaccepting, and racist

good-natured / posess the desire to suceed in life / friendly / most are of the same mold and background

That W&L students are rich southern white republicans that are very spoiled and are used to getting everything handed to them.

not accepting of gays, drink a lot, really smart. a lot of people see us as a rich country club that worships Robert E. Lee.

The main Stereotype is that we are a bunch of rich, preppy, private school kids who think we are better than everyone else. There is also the stereotype that we are a party school and very Greek oriented.