Emerson College Top Questions

Yes

For the most part. The forget to mention how hardworking and passionate Emerson College students are about their career choice. The school really facilicitates time to pursue creative goals and allows students to work only as hard as they want to.

Pretty much, yeah (the last one of those is 50/50 for positive...and trendy is NOT a compliment, FYI).

To an extent.

I don't fall into either category, and while I have friends who do, I also have plenty of friends who do not. There are a lot of kids just playing around with daddy's money who don't seem to be connected to the real world, but you'll get that at BU, BC, etc. as well.

In SO many cases, yes. But the school is beginning to market now to a more generalized crowd.

Many Emerson kids were unpopular or different in high school, and it takes time for them to find their niche. Eventually they can understand individuality and that they aren't the only ones that want to be artsy people.

These stereotypes are true to a point, but honestly, there are plenty of straight guys here (even though we have our share of gay guys as well). Also, though it may seem that everyone smokes, there definitely is a large population of Emerson students who don't.

there are some of these stereotypes represented but there are other people too.

There are a lot of hipsters, and a lot of gay guys, but we aren't all

Well, sort of. lol. The concentration of men who happen to be homosexual is greater, and definitely more accepted in the community, but there are a lot of straight men here too. As far as the eccentric, yes, that's true. The majority of the kids that end up attending Emerson are the kids that were displaced or otherwise out-casted in high school. Those that don't fall into that category, are definitely more mature and self aware than most graduating seniors. The concentration of creative minds is absolutely greater, and I think that lends itself to a community rich in social diversity, but also eccentricities.

Perhaps there is a bit of truth that often Emerson students think they are the next creative genius in the world of film making (can you see me rolling my eyes). Maybe that's why i decided to switch to doing Media Studies. Now I don't have to listen to the how in denial most students are about their future after Emerson.

Of course, stereotypes come from somewhere, and you will meet some of these people. But it's also really easy to find people who completely break these stereotypes, and people who realize fitting into any stereotype is lame.

Yes, but those people are actually pretty rare.

For the most part, yes!

For the most part, yes, although it is easy to find pockets of people who you fit in with, even though you don't get along with some of the other groups. For example, most gay students tend to be musical theatre majors, and most potsmokers and drinkers tend to party off-campus and on the weekends.

Not in a negative way. If anything, the expressiveness I've witnessed in most Emerson Students is due to their creativity and the volume of which they express themselves is due to age and the freedom of being on their own without parents in a city.

Not at all. Although there is probably a higher percentage of gay students than at a typical school, I'm sure that the gay population is less than 25{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}. Also, not everyone is the starving artist type, although many students have interesting artistic ideas.

Many students are gay and both pot and cigarettes are extremely prevalent. However, many of the students are actually really nice and collaboration is encouraged. There are many stuck up artists.

Most of them, there is a huge gay and smoker community. And We are all pretentious.

I mean, all stereotypes come from somewhere. I'd say they're about 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} accurate, and 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} inaccurate.

Absolutely not. There is such a wide range of creativity at Emerson. But there are a great mix of people here who are athletes, journalists, marketing majors, and people who have their focus on law school or marketing firms and not broadway. Emerson has the best campus in New England, in my opinion. We are on the corner of the Boston Common where the real estate is not cheap. I have heard so many students from other schools complain that there is never anything to do at their school because the campus is segregated from the rest of the world. That is impossible at Emerson. You can walk out your door and be in the center of a major city. Boston is a safe place to walk around too, which is a bonus.

Yes.

It depends. Many times not though.

Somewhat but there are a lot of hard working passionate students.

There are always people who are going to fit into those categories, but for the most part as Emerson has expanded its student population, this has changed. There are more straight males at Emerson (mostly in marketing, film and journalism), theater kids are a little crazy but mostly just loud, and the film students are really into their art, which isn't such a bad thing.

A lot of people wear tight pants; no one likes the pretentious people because they are pretentious, and I don't smoke nor did I audition for NYU. There are various groups but we all intermingle. And there are tons of hipsters.

Pink hair not so much, but the other ones sure. Again, these students are the most visible to the public, since they are the ones hanging outside the buildings

Of course there is no stereotype that is universally accurate. However, I'd say most Emerson students are guilty of at least one of the above stereotypes, and maybe 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} are guilty of all of them.

Most of them are pretty accurate.

Are they true? Well, I like to think that for the most part we are all unqiue. The thing about emerson students is they embrass liberal ideas but are not open minded enough to take in other ideas that exist outside their own. Not all of them are like this, but for the most part they are liberal because of their ideals and not their excuteion of considering ideals. Emerson is most definitely a non-party school. Some students atempt it, but the school is strict and they definitely get caught. Many of the new students have moved off campus for this reason. The fact it they never party during the week, weekends only. And I do not know how in the world they do it. The semetser is so damanding that maybe I'll go out to have a drink with a friend once a month (I am 22 and am old enough to do so). The students here are hard working individuals. An emersonain is more likely to be a canabus smoker than a heavy drinker. And no one in the WLP has time for either.

Well, not everybody is gay... and most of the pretentious kids have the knowledge to back up their attitude.

No. Some people do have money but not everyone. A lot of people think that the parents are buying their kids education, but thats not true. Also, not everyone is gay... and there are some trendy people. People also think taht the kids that "didn't have friends in hs" go here...not true. there are no freaks or geeks here. We're just liberal and thats the way we work...we are open to everyone.

Yes

All of these stereotypes are accurate, but there are many students who don't fit these stereotypes also.

Sometimes, other times it turns out you actually ARE one.

There are a lot of persons here whose dress could accurately be described in that fashion, yes. As for the other, sometimes unpleasant, connotations of these words, I don't know.

Not all of us are gay! Not all of us smoke! Many of us graduate and become successful! So what if we're not too good at math? We are willing to push the limits and we are creative and artistic!

The majority of students fit this stereotype but, of course, there are exceptions. However, there's more diversity in sexual orientation at Emerson than people think. When I first came to Emerson, I thought there would be absolutely no straight guys, and that's not true.

yeah pretty much.

They are true but definitely not everyone is like that, you can definitely find a variety of others.

We do have a lot of artistic people and are very open-minded, but we're most definitely not freaks. Some people dress funky, others dress drab, the truth is that we are just accepting of all types. The students and teachers at Emerson tend not to judge based on looks, and that is one of Emerson's strong points.

a lot of the time yes, but that doesn't change the fact that they are all really nice, expressive, and creative people

There is a large gay population, and many of them act like gay stereotypes. We have a good theater program, but there are plenty of kids who aren't into theater, too.

Yes, for the most part. Though, when you're in this environment you don't realize how much it is a very overwhelmingly different place. Until, of course, you leave and everyone reminds you. The students also seem lazy until inspired. In that, they'll work hours beyond a normal student if they're passionate. Otherwise, it's lazy time for drinks. There's no time or effort for boredom.

well, not all emerson students smoke cigarettes or anything because they are in the theatre programs. also, we do have sports and i think we made a good turn out this year. but there is a very low number of available guys to my standards.

Mostly

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Haha, yeah. But in a mostly endearing way.

artsy, yea. I mean it is a liberal arts college. Some students can seem elitist or snobby (the stereotypical long island brats) but its very easy to find a crowd to fit in with. there is a lot of gay but if its not your thing it is not prominent enough to bother you, unless you're in theatre. Stoners... well it depends on the group. Living across from the common, pot is very easy to get but again, if its not your thing, you dont have to deal with it.