Carnegie Mellon University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at your school?

Andrey

Nerdy, Geeky, and extremely uncommunicative. Also, physically unattractive.

Allison

A lot of people think CMU is full of nerds and that all we do is work.

Cassandra

1. We are all nerds who do nothing but study 2. There are no good looking people here 3. Life is boring (i.e. no parties) 4. Pittsburgh sucks because its always bad weather and there's nothing to do

Andy

Everyone assumes that all the students are nerdy, not that attractive, and don't go out and do fun things.

Nick

CMU students are nerds, don't go out, don't have fun

Amanda

We're all nerds who dont know how to have fun. All we do is study study study. Its not true.

Damian

Simply put, CMU students work way too hard.

Kelly

They are: Ugly, nerdy, workaholics and antisocial. This is mainly for technical/science majors.

Paige

CMU students are typically characterized as individuals without social ambitions, solely focused on and academics.

Cara

I think a big stereotype is the lack of social scene at CMU. Also, I think we are thought of as a big engineering and computer science school.

Julianne

The unfortunate CMU stereotype is that we are all ugly nerds. People who go to neighboring universities sweat that there is a CMU student "lool", and that they can tell who CMU students on sight.

Charlie

Its full of East-Asians. There are few female students.

Andre

Most of the time if someone hears that you go to CMU their first instinct is to ask whether you're doing engineering or computer programming. There are no cute girls, there are no cute guys. if you're going to college to meet attractive people CMU is not for you. No one has sex. If you do have sex you're either gay or having sex with someone you don't find attractive. Everyone studies all the time and no one likes to have fun.

Ryan

Everyone here is a foreign nerd.

Bob

They're whack and socially retarded

Blake

no sex, everyone is a dork, no fun and all work.

James

CMU kids are extremely nerdy, they spend most of their time studying. Tepper kids are backstabbers, and CFA kids are all better looking. In addition, none of the students tend to give a damn about things outside of the classroom or textbooks.

Mike

A stereotype about CMU students are that they are all ugly and nerdy.

Sharon

That everyone here loves video games and programming more than going out. That students are really smart and hardworking and can't do anything else. That this school is really challenging and makes you work really really hard. oh and that we dont sleep here

Anna

Haha, where should I start? Perhaps the most pervasive stereotype is that everyone at CMU is a huge nerd. We all wear pocket protectors, interact much better via AIM and rarely leave our rooms because we are too busy playing World of Warcraft. Quite honestly, CMU students also have a reputation for being ugly. Students in the College of Fine Arts are supposed to be the only attractive people on campus. Drama students are supposed to be completely insane.

Andrew

The most common stereotype about CMU is that it is a dorky school for workaholics with no social lives. People also think the students here are all Asian engineers and weird drama people. Plus I heard somewhere that in a survey the girls at our school were voted the ugliest in the country.

Alan

The main stereotype about CMU students is that they all stay in their rooms and play video games all day.

Rob

CMU has a stereotype of being an incredibly nerdy school with a very limited social scene. It is try that most of the students are generally nerdy engineering and computer science people but as far as the social atmosphere - if you know where to go it can actually be pretty good.