College of William and Mary Top Questions

William and Mary students are nerds, avoid fun, are ugly, enjoy musicals, poetry, and hate parties.

Everyone thinks William & Mary students are nerds who lack social skills.

The stereotypes about William and Mary students contend that they are nerdy, unsociable, and unattractive.

1. W&M students are anti-social. 2. W&M students are socially awkward. 3. W&M students are over-achievers. 4. W&M students are politically apathetic.

that we're nerds!!!! study all the time, even on the weekends, don't care much about appearances or parties, socially awkward, high SAT scores, probably humanities or pre-med, always have their nose in a book, all from NoVA, hate UVA, bad atheletics, boring nightlife.

The primary William and Mary stereotype is that it is the suicide capital of the U.S. William and Mary students are also said to be extremely nerdy and not particularly attractive.

That they are overly studious, lacking in social skills, and unable to party properly. (also--suicidal?)

Nerds, gays, kids not good enough for UVA

that they dont like to party that theyre smart that they care about learning

That we commit suicide, we don't have fun, we study all the time, we're nerds/dorks/dweebs.

awesomely socially awkward, manic studiers, extremely anxious about grades, concerned with helping their communities, unattractive

That we study all the time

William and Mary students are extremely involved, hard working, intelligent.

Nerdy, ugly, smart, sons and daughters of diplomats, Northern Virginians, socially awkward.

Typical WM students are said to be nerdy, quirky, socially awkward, and extremely intelligent. They are said to care too much about their grades and not get much sleep. Although we may care a little too much about our grades, the typical WM student is extremely kind and courteous.

William and Mary students are thought to be overworked, unattractive, undersexed, and generally clueless about anything that does not pertain to William and Mary. We are also thought of as the nation's suicide capital.

anti-social, awkward, from Northern Virginia, preppy, wannabe liberals, lazy, self-centered, apathetic

Some stereotypes about the students are that they are only interested in studying and don't really have much fun, that they don't have much free time at all, and that students often depressed. Some stereotypes about William and Mary are that it's a "suicide school" (though I believe this stereotype has gone away a bit in recent years), that it's an "academic bootcamp," that it's really hard to get good grades, and that it's not very good at sports.

Perhaps the most common word used to describe the student body is NERDY. Other schools may say it like an insult, but here at WM, we've embraced it. Our study addiction has turned into a running joke on campus, but also a source of pride. When we recently lost our mascot, most of the suggestions for a replacement involved studying in some way: The William & Mary Dorks, the Fightin' Swemmers (after our library, named Swem), Ye Olde Colonial Nerds, etc...

That our school is boring and full of people that just study all of the time and that students here can't have a good time.

Before coming to WM I expected a school that was South of the Mason-Dixie line--homogenus, conservative, and Christian.

-students are violently introverted, religiously grade-grubbing overachievers, and mentally unstable suicides. -that all the students are conservative in their ideologies -students don't know how to have fun; students are sexually repressed virgins -students are sober as sin, and anti-smoking has become the new smoking.