We asked Andy...
Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
Often enough for the stereotypes to be unsurprising. We have more students from Mass. than from Maine, it's true, and between us and our sister schools (Bowdoin and Bates), we have the biggest international population. It's also true that many Colby teams hold beer dear, but no more so than at any other college. And yeah, pretty much every day on the General Announcement e-mails, someone's lost a Nalgene or a North Face. But I, at least, own neither. Some people are preppy, some people are crunchy, some fall in between, but a decent chunk fall outside the box, too.
All of which is to say that the stereotypes work from a distance, but as with anything else, the truth is a little more complicated and a lot more interesting.