Mount Holyoke College Top Questions

over-stressed, stuck up, hypersensitive about political correctness

People are in one of three catogroies, Gay, Rich or of Color

That we party all the time and aren't as serious as Amherst or Smith with our studies. And that because we're an all girl school the majority of people on campus are lesbians.

That this is a community of intense gay pride, GPA paranoia, diffcult classes and multilingual speakers. Essentially sort of daunting socially.

Most people are under the impression that Mount Holyoke is a college full of very "butch" man-hating feminists. This stereotype seems to hold for any all-women's college and Mount Holyoke does not escape this broad generalization.

That we love kissing girls all the time always

Only horse riders go to Mt Holyoke

girls are too snobby

Everyone is queer or a homosexual.

Mt. Holyoke women were considered to be very preppy?

some think mt. holyoke has many mean girls.

People actually believe that Mt. Holyoke is a big diverse place.

The big stereotype about Mount Holyoke students is that everyone here is a lesbian, curious, or questioning her sexuality, because we all chose to come to a women's college.

they say we are drunkards. it's not true.

That we're all sexually repressed, homely lushes.

Everyone's gay

Work obsessed, diversity loving, PC-nazis.

We are all gay!! Yes we are!

All Moho's Are Lesbians and obsessed with studying and getting A's they are overachievers

I dont think there are any but if I had to point one out it would probably be that everyone thinks Mount Holyoke women are stuck up.

There is a stereotype that all Mount Holyoke students are living on their daddy's money and they're all rich snobs.

all students are queer ofcourse...cannot have mount holyoke without its gayness

typical women's college with smart women. a place where there's nothing to do.

angry rugby playing lesbians, wasps that couldn't get into any of the other sevem sisters

We don't know how to have fun. There are never any men around campus.

Straight girls who are too lazy or socially inept to go to another school and find a boyfriend, so they awkwardly hang around Mt. Holyoke parties trying to pick up girls.

competition for "who has the most work to do"

it's a school for lesbians It's boring

Either they're super ditzy party girls or hard-ass rugby lesbians.

Hard-working, gay, serious, high strung, drama queens, competitive

There is the obvious stereotype that everyone that goes to Mt. Holyoke is a lesbian and even if you don't like girls when you come here, by the time you graduate you'll probably have chopped off all of your hair and become some butch lesbian.

according to what i've heard, mt holyoke students are considered outspoken, cordial and thoughtful but i don't classify them as stereotypes. i am really not sure. what i've also heard that almost 2/3 of the population here is gay.

Many people are under the impression that all the women that go to Mount Holyoke are queer.

There's a stereotype about how gay/straight our student population is. I honestly don't have any idea was the actual percentages are, but I also don't really care. There's also a stereotype that we work hard all the time, but I think we also play really hard. The hardest part about being able to play hard is that most of the time we have to go off campus because our campus has been tightening its policies on partying recently.

I saw a Simpsons show that describes a typical MHC student as one who is drunk and parties all the time. I have also heard of us being very smart and hard working, mainly from people around the area or alums that really know about MHC.

Stereotypes? I think people feel that Mount Holyoke students are smart, overworked, stressed out, oblivious, and unaware of what goes on in the world, but that we try to solve everything. In the five college area, I think we're supposed to be the pretty ones. I've heard someone say that we're just a bunch of girls trying to find husbands.

Majority here are lesbians

Stereotypes about Mt Holyoke range from 'no one is straight', to 'everyone is an overachiever', to 'they still burn their bras.'

everyone is a lesbian, we are all liberal, we party a lot