The dating scene seems to be filled will casual daters. During school hours you won't catch people being affectionate in the halls, this is reserved for after hours. The term casual dating can range from "random hookups" to people that are more than friends.

Some of the common stereotypes of the students at my school is that they are rich, white kids. However, this is NOT an accurate stereotype!!

My academic experience at DU has been incredible. Since freshman year, I have had one class with over 20 kids, and that one only had 90, which is as big as it gets here. Every professor makes a point to get to know you, and they will definitely notice if you are "sick" and not showing up to class. They are upfront and very understanding. As a student, I feel welcome in every class, which is good because most are discussion-based and call for a lot of stimulating in-class participation.

As an English major, learning at DU is a positive experience. Professors are accessible and for the most part ready to work with you. They tend to be very knowledgeable on their respective subjects but don’t flaunt superiority. For about half of my classes the class size tends to be a bit too large for my liking (25-30 students). The other half are a more comfortable size (15-20 students). Since the school runs on a 10 week quarter system classes can be fast paced and sometimes both professors and students can feel that not everything gets covered as it should. The short quarter also makes for some intense weeks especially around mid terms and finals. You have to plan ahead on studying and paper-writing or else you can get behind and have little breathing room to catch up. The upside to all this is that classes rarely ever get boring and after 4 years you’ll have taken a broader range of classes than your peers at any semester school. For some people, the quarter system is simply too stressful and doesn’t work for them, I totally understand. For a majority of my classes, my fellow students are well engaged in the coursework. There is an eagerness in many students to learn and share ideas. This creates some dynamic and challenging class times that I always savor.

Freshmen dorms on campus are really not that great. I did tour one small school in the Midwest where the dorms were narrow and dirty with white cinder block walls and white linoleum floors (it felt more like a haunted insane asylum than a place to actually live), and I have seen dorms that all come with their own balconies, bathrooms, and room service. DU's freshmen dorms are pretty plain, but they could be MUCH worse. I am personally a J-Mac fan (Johnson-Macfarlane Residence Hall), but many people also like Centennial Halls, which house a lot more students.They are really about the same. What I like about J-Mac is that every room has a HUGE window which makes for very bright rooms. Now as for sophomore and upper-classmen dorms, they are NICE. Nelson and Nagel halls are newer buildings that are simply BEAUTIFUL. I am actually looking forward to living in them next year. It is worth noting that all students are required to live on campus TWO years.

The University of Denver has preps, jocks, geeks, nerds, hippies, stoners, international students , non-traditional students (moms, & older people), thespians, red necks, goths, wanna-be gangsters, but the prevalent stereotype seems to be rich spoiled kids. I do admit, out of all the colleges I've visited, heard about from friends, or transferred from DU seems to have the most Frat kids that I'm met, maybe only coming close to CU Boulder's frat population. But I think the rich kids and frat kids are only more visible as they usually live on campus or very near. The international students are probably the next most visible. They are usually based down the street, and many of the students at DU come from Japan, China, Germany, Netherlands, Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, Chile and from all over. There are a bunch of exceptionally bright students too. DU kids love to study abroad and the school is becoming a little more foreigner friendly by having a couple international studies buildings on campus and providing programs like the Conversation Partners.There are rich geeks as well as poor ones, probably due to the many ways you can access grants and scholarships. Mostly, what makes DU's campus so diverse is that a little more than half of the students seem to come from every other place but Colorado. Everyone seems to keep to themselves because they are all at DU to do some serious studying, which sometimes makes it hard to make friends if you live off campus. Overall, I think that having little diversity on our campus and rich spoiled kids are the biggest two untrue stereotypes about DU students.

The University of Denver sports teams have won 27 NCAA Division I national championships. DU was ranked 23rd out of 330 Division 1 sports programs in the country in 2008. To say the least, DU has incredible athletics. Even though we don't have a football team, students are school spirited at games and our teams are talented and perform well. Hockey games provide students with a similar environment to football games. You won't feel like you're missing out on anything, rather the opposite; DU's sports are well worth supporting.

One of the best things about the University of Denver is the relationships formed between the students and professors. Most of my classes that I've taken during my time at the University have had a very low student to professor ratio making it extremely easy to connect with the professor. Even in larger lecture classes if I needed help or had questions I found it very easy and was comfortable emailing my professor or going in during office hours for help. All the professors are extremely flexible and work hard to help you succeed. The professors at the University of Denver work with you with your best interests at heart. If you work hard and use all resources available it is a very rewarding and positive learning environment here at DU.

Alpine club is one of most popular student group, where the group plans various outdoor activities every month. Thursday night movies are also a highlight were the DU programs board screens a relatively new movie in our largest auditorium before the movie is out on DVD. Hockey games are always sold out. About 18% of the student population are part of the greek system and it's been increasing every year.

The DU Programming Board (DUPB) does a great deal for the student population. Every Thursday (since most people don't have Friday classes) they have a free movie playing, and it's almost always something you'd want to see. Your residence hall your first year will basically become your family (unless you join one of the 8 fraternities or 5 sororities), as RAs are great about encouraging open door policy. Especially if you live in a living and learning communities (LLC) like the Pioneer Leadership Program, or the Sustainability LLC, the people you live with will most likely be the people that you hang out with the rest of your college experience.

THEYRE GREAT!

the main events are sorority and fraternities parties and exhnages, and philanthropic events usually doors in any place of residence are open people date, but most people are in a relation ship long term, or single 2 am on a tuesday, watching a movie with girl friends, maybe on a special occasion out downtown most traditions are sorority or fraternity events people go out thurs and saturday mainly, but other days as well the people in fraternities and sororities plan most events, either within their organization, or as a part of another organization last weekend, a concert and a baseball game on saturday not drinking hanging out going to dinner, watching movies, going to a sporting event off campus go up to the mountians, or outside in general, especially parks, also to the cherry creek shopping district

It is a very business oriented school, which is great if you are a business major. However, not many of the school's resources go into the other departments.

I have experienced relatively no diversity especially in the business school. If you're looking for varrying groups of people with passionate and varrying ideas or different tastes in music or people who enjoy different passtimes, look somewhere else. Most students are supported by their parents, live in dorms or houses in the surrounding neighborhoods. Most listen to popular hip-hop and go to house parties. I am sure that I am overgeneralizing a bit but I've really struggled to find the types of people you expect at a university. Where are the hippies? Where are the political activists? punk rockers? philosophers? The culture here is very one track.

The friends you meet freshman year, you'll most likely be friends with for the rest of college. The dorm experience freshman year is imperative. Greek life is great, do it. Most of my friends party 3 nights a week, Thursday's are the big nights. But really you can party as much or as little as you'd like.

The bar across from campus allows more underage drinking than a high school field party. Most of the people living in the dorms will manage to get themselves a fake ID very quickly. The school has a pretty decent sport programs, hockey and skiing are the strong points, and the school gives season tickets out to hockey for $60 to students.

The class sizes are just right, intimate enough to create a valuable learning experience every day. The faculty are great; there have been very few instances when you solely deal with TAs for class. The professors are affable and approachable, always available to help.

DU is awesome. I really can't see myself anywhere else. No matter what, I always feel at home and I can't wait until the summer is over so I can go back!

I only have 2 professors that know my name because they are very small classes. A lot of the general classes are big, but never huge. Class participation is great. There are geniuses in some of my classes. The students can be quite competitive, but there are also those who don't care or have the money to pay someone to do homework for them. There are some really cool unique classes, like next quarter I am taking "paranormal phenomena" and "international mobsters". The international studies department is great. People in this dept tend to be much more open minded and less conservative than the other departments. I have spent time outside of class with one professor.

For the most part. There are always exceptions to the rules, but stereotypes are given for a reason: that aspect of DU is the most obvious to anybody who looks in on it.