Northwestern University Top Questions

Nerds, pre-professional, not fun

Nerdy, wish they were in ivy league, work way too hard, stressed out, boring

People at Northwestern are Nerds. There are more hot girls than there are hot guys. Greek life is life at Northwestern. If your a guy in theater your gay. If you don't go to the Keg on mondays and the Deuce on thursdays your a loser and have no life (in other words, you need to go out or you suck).

I don't know many local area stereotypes, but back home, if a person actually knew what Northwestern was, they would just assume I was very smart and possibly snobby.

Northwestern is stereotyped as the place where people who didn't get in to Ivies go. Either that, or it is the "Ivy of the Midwest".

smart, pretentious, wealthy, privileged, snobby, materialistic

Nerdy, Rich, White

They're well endowed.

Smart, competitive, motivated, socially awkward

a lot of people think we're a bunch of nerdy kids who stay in all the time and do homework because we're the only public school in the big 10 and we suck at sports.

Smart, dorky, preppy, classy Study hard, party hard North campus is science people, south is artsy

We are socially awkward but somehow make up for our lack of people skills and connect with each other with our smarts. We are very motivated to succeed.

no social life, nerdy, socially inept, rich snobs

nerdy, type A, rich, ugly

"Northwestern students don't go out", "nerds", and "career oriented" are typical stereotypes one might hear about Northwestern students.

The two main, and most observable, stereotypes are that Northwestern students constantly flaunt their intelligence and that Northwestern's female students are uglier, on average, than the female students at other Universities.

rich, white, smart, focused on bussiness

Some stereotypes about Northwestern are that the students are excessively bookish and at least slightly awkward. Also, there is the stereotype that peope here are ugly.

People think NU students are a bit dorky as we spend ridiculous amounts of time at the library. We're also seen as the laughingstock of the Big Ten in sports (whether it's true or not).

All we do is study, and the campus is generally full of mediocre-looking people.

Northwestern students are portrayed most often being studious, awkward, and generally unattractive. There (of course) are people in all parts of Northwestern that conform to these stereotypes, but Northwestern students are also the ones observing these, so most people are actually not.

A stereotypical Northwestern student will have a North Face fleece and will generally wear his or her parents' money on their sleeves at all times. This kid will talk a lot of game about skipping classes and being for the most part a rebel, but will probably be lying. Additionally, this kid will mock Northwestern's Asian students, presuming that they are all engineers who hole themselves up in their single-bed dormrooms instead of going out to the fantastic frat parties they probably wouldn't be allowed into anyway.

That we are nerdy and rich.

A lot of Northwestern students are the high school kids that weren't the smartest, but worked really hard, studied a lot, and got good grades. These kids were also pretty lame. Then, they get to Northwestern, and in the power vacuum of lame-ness, some seem to believe that they are cool. These kids go on to join fraternities and haze underclassmen in the future. Because they're cool.

Conservative, rich, not as intellectual as other ivy's

Northwestern students study too much, they don't go out, they're nerdy.

I think a common stereotype about Northwestern students is that we are all highly motivated overachievers who did everything possible in high school.

I believe that the average student here views the population as rather homogeneous, centering around white/upper-middle class. However, I did not have that perception coming into the school. Nevertheless, there is a very perceptive cultural divide on campus, most likely stemming from the ascendancy of the Greek system, which tends to maintain preexisting cultural barriers by its very nature. With that being said, we are also very intelligent, and for the most part, driven individuals that strive for success in all we do. A stereotype that I believe is inaccurate, is that we do not like to have fun.

The common one is a combinations of a nerd, workaholic, perfectionist who spends too much time doing homework

Northface wearing, ugg stepping, longchamp clutching spoiled rich kids. Not smart or unique enough to get into an ivy, but still intellectually snobby enough to look down on anyone at a state school or...god forbid...community college.

That we are all insanely ridiculously smart and do nothing but study

that they are awkward. girls think the guys are unattractive and vice versa. they're smart.

-wealthy -overachievers -apathetic

1. we don't date: see this article http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/marapr/farm/news/england.html 2. we study too much 3. we're very apathetic 4. we're not politically motivated 5. we're a bunch of ivy-league re-jects

Stereotypes are that the parties suck, there's nothing fun to do, everyone, especially the girls are ugly, and that everyone is really smart but have no social skills. Also, Northwestern students are snobby.

there seems to be two stereotypes. one side thinks of northwestern students as the "cooler" school in the chicagoland area that also has good academics. the other camp thinks, in comparison to the big 10 i think, that we also have some pretty dorky, always studying, fiercely competitive students. another stereotype i can think of is the work hard, play hard student. mostly students enjoy being super involved in extracurriculars, as well as dedicated to their academics. there is also a decent grasp of social life here, so not everyone is in the library all the time.

Northwestern students are said to be really nerdy snobs from Connecticut who get all their money from their mommy and daddy. They are thought to be very competitive/ cut-throat with each other and only study all the time.

ugly, dorky

Northwestern is an elite academic institution in the coldest place on the planet. Northwestern students work hard and play hard.

Nerdy

They all study, don't have any good movies, and are all nerds and geeks.

The school - second tier to the Ivies. The students - smart, competitive, ugly.

Preppy, rich, jewish, Nerdy, No Good guys,

Smart, Ivy League Rejects,

Nerdy, talented, upset that they didn't get into an Ivy League, not very school spirited/don't support athletic teams

We're socially awkward, sexually repressed nerds trying to make up for what we weren't in high school. You know, like, overcompensating. Which is true of some people. Also that there are a lot of really jappy, rich, stuck-up people. Oh, and overachieving Asians.

"Nerdwestern"

Northwestern students like doing lots of different activities and they occasionally overcommit themselves.

the weather is too cold and the students study too hard

Many people think of Northwestern as a school for nerds and geeks, who do nothing but study for their math and physics midterms. Many also think that Northwestern Students don't know how to party.