Quinnipiac University Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at your school?

Cassie

We enjoy our Northfaces and Uggs. We are mostly middle to upper class white kids. We love our hockey team and the quad.

Ally

Most people say that Quinnipiac students are wealthy, wear Abercrombie and Hollister all the time, Uggs and a North Face. They're also said to drive very expensive cars (Mercedes, Audi, ect.), but this doesn't say anything about who the students are.

Mike

I feel that most of my friends that do not go to Quinnipiac have a very strong idea of what they picture the students to be like. The main stereotype I hear a lot comes from the fact that the school is 60{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} female. Because of this you hear lots of stereotypes about the girls that attend QU mostly being the fact they all come from rich families and collect UGG boots, North Face Jackets, designer bags and sunglasses. the newest trend at Qu and I bet every middle/upper class college is girls wearing only spandex pants tucked into their UGG boots. I usually get a good laugh at the ugh boots with the ridiculous fur all over them. As if they killed a small dog and tied it to their foot. Also, it seems the girls here usually get labeled as very flirtatious people especially when you hear the stampede of click clacking heels running down dorm road to the New Haven Shuttle so they can go to town on all the guys at Toads or any one of New Haven's fine establishments. But to not give the girls hear a bad rep, because in honesty, most I know are very nice people, I would say there's the fair share of the collar popping preppy rich guys and definitely our fair share of "my new haircut" dudes all over campus. When it comes to the school itself, you can hear stuff about how the university likes to spend its money on crazy unnecessary things, but I see most of it as stuff that in the end is for the benefit of the students.

Amanda

One stereotype about Quinnipiac is that everyone who attends the school is stuck up and rich.

Amanda

A lot of people when i first meet them and say i go to Quinnipiac automatically stereotype me as a rich snob who lives off daddy's money. Also, people seem to think we are a big party school and big on the bar scene.

Erin

I was told when I was leaving for QU that all of the girls look the same, blonde hair, big sunglasses and ( at that time) Abercrombie polos with popped collars. Guys, well, the same.

Hunter

People think this school is filled with girls who get wasted and act like sluts, and that people only come to QU to get wasted and laid

Mike

Everyone is white, rich and preppy. The school is dominated by girls.

Lane

That everyone is stuck up, from wealthy families, and wear the same thing: uggs, northfaces and Hollister

Katie

Rich, Dumb, Ditzy, Partiers, All Play, no work.

Christina

rich, stuck up, heavy drinkers, prodomidantly white, don't care about politics or news, lives in qu bubble, etc.

Mike

Stereotypes about Quinnipiac students vary depending on who you ask. Before I attended the school, I used to spend time at Yale some friends of mine from high school who graduated the year before I did. I remember one time after I was accepted they showed me a white shuttle bus parked on Broadway. "That's the slut bus," they told me. "It's the shuttle back to QPac [Yale's own semi-derogatory codeword for Quinnipiac]. You'll get to know it and all the trashy girls on board." To be totally honest, they were right--flooding off of it were scantily clad, semi-intoxicated females and similar male counterparts, even in the unbearable cold of December. I've heard these girls also referred to as "Quick-in-the-sack Quinnipiac" girls. Other stereotypes include the typical "guido," as in, a Long Island or Jersey guy with an accent so thick it can be cut with a knife and an hour-long pre-club ritual that ends with a shaved forehead, a blowout, and at least one popped collar.

Cameron

A waltz through the catalogs of North Face, J. Crew, L.L.Bean, etc, not just in fashion sense [stand anywhere in the quad at passing times, and you can spot at minimum 2 dozen North Face logos paired with Ugg boots], but also, in their glossy lack of depth. We have a few camps at work. The Business and Accounting types are likely "in-college-because-i-have-to-be/parents-made-me" students, scraping by, getting homework/projects done as need be. I have more than once heard "im just doing this in case my husband needs me to work -i plan on being a housewife". PT,OT,Nursing, health science etc... majors are more focused, class oriented, they dont really have a choice. However, memorizing the enitre human anatomy is mentally taxing, and these people, when not bitching zombies, are shitfaced. The rest of the mix is a hard batch to pin down. Core humanities Majors [English, History, Math] are hard to come by, often looked at with skewed eyes, but usually all the more brazenly attached to Norton and Prentice hall Tombs for it. Drinking is pretty standard, but were isnt it. Big, creative ideas are not, and its obvious.

Sallie

homogeneous.

Danielle

Most of the stereotypes of quinnipiac students is that we are all from wealthy families and that we are white. the stereotypes i have heard about quinnipiac is that all the kids are the same.

Torry

Rich and snobby.

katie

Everyone is white, rich, and from Long Island, NJ, or CT.

Casey

Very wealthy students

jackie

Quinnipiac is all rich white kids there is no diversity quinnipiac is known for attractive girls

Liz

hot girls and lots of money

lauren

They are all white upper middle class preppies from Long Island or Boston.

Jess

That the campus is not very diverse and the students are a bunch or rich kids.

Ryan

1. It is the "Disney World" of colleges because it is always clean. 2. Everyone is wealthy. 3. Quinnipiac thinks it is an Ivy League School. 4. Prospective students can buy their way in. 5. Athletes can get away with anything and everything because they are placed on a pedestal. 6. Everyone is from New York or New Jersey. 7. Quinnipiac in money hungry and will do anything to get an extra dollar out of students.

Andy

There are a lot of stereo types about the fact that all the students who go here are rich and snobby. There is also a stereo type that we are completely apathetica about political and world concerns.

Annie

Rich snobs who's mommy and daddies pay for everything. Yes a lot of wealthy students go here, but a lot are working their way through here out of their own pocket.

Stephanie

Quinnipiac students are upper middle class, from long island, nj, or Massachusetts. They all wear clothes from places like Abercrombie, J Crew, or Hollister. They party too much on the weekends, they don't study enough during the week. Quinnipiac is a country club for spoiled teenagers.

Jennifer

I think that some stereotypes include QU students to be big drinkers and partiers. They take drugs and are promiscuous.

Samantha

We are mostly portrayed (mostly by Yale students) as primarily white, preppy, rich girls from the northeast who party way too much.

Jo

Quinnipiac students are generally thought to be white, preppy, rich kids that lack diversity. Most students come from the tri-state area, CT, NY, NJ, or New England. Quinnipiac is mostly a girl's college with a focus on the health sciences and liberal arts. Male students at Quinnipiac generally study in the schools of Business or Communications.

Steve

There are many negative stereotypes associated to QU and its students. First, the student body is made up of snobby, rich, white kids. QU girl stereotypes include that they are snobby, stup up sluts or easy girls who wear north face and ugg boots. Abercrombie and Fitch models. The school may be stereotyped as a poor mans Yale or a safety school for it. A popular stereotype is that Students that come here are from the Northeast only and were the jocks and cheerleaders of their high school.