Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at your school?

Laryssa

I guess the stereotype is a tech-savvy, heavy-backpack toting, science minded person. As a stereotype, most students work hard and play hard, by which they consume a surprising amount of alcohol on the weekends (only weekends for engineers-maybe Management majors drink during the week).

Alex

Guys are nerds, girls arent as smart, guys are desperate, fraternities have a bad name (animal house image)

Katie

They are nerdy and geeks who never come out of their rooms. Also, that there are no girls at RPI.

Matt

Everyone at RPI is a nerd

David

There is a large population of "nerdy" students, and the ratio between male and female is heavily unbalanced with about 3 guys to each girl.

Kevin

1."RPI is full of geeks" 2. "The ratio of men to women is very heavy on the side of the men"

Ben

Dorky, NO Girls, NO Fun, Lame school in the middle of nowhere...

Kristin

That all the students that go there are really big nerds and have no social lives.

Gabrielle

RPI students are stereotyped as nerds who never come out of their room and spend all day and night either studying, or playing video games. RPI males are said to be explained by the saying: "the odds are good but the goods are odd"

Zac

RPI students are really geeky. The members of both sexes are unattractive.

Christie

nerds, dont do anything on the weekends

Jon

Nerdy WoW players, calculator toting geeks, bunch of engineers

Mel

You know ... nerdy engineer-types: google-vest-wearing, pocket-protector, heavy-backpack-schlepping types. Also there's some rumor going around that RPI student's don't know how to party. The ratio of male to female used to be about 70-30, but it's starting to even out a bit more.... it might be around 63-37 now, but I'm not entirely sure. In general RPI students are very bright and really hardworking - this stereotype is 97.6{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} true (my mathematic major friend said he calculated this percentage).

Vick

Troy is an unsafe city. There are no girls at RPI. Everyone at RPI is a geek.

Dylan

RPI is a "nerd school." Everyone there is really smart and many are socially awkward. There aren't many girls, and the ones that are at RPI tend to become full of themselves because there are so many more guys - they develop "RIBS". Also, there is nothing to do at RPI.

Rina

Many people feel that RPI is full of nerds and geeks that stay in their room all day long and don't know how to party. Before coming to RPI, everyone complains of the male-female ratio.

Blake

RPI students are typically stereotyped one of two ways, Nerds or Athletes.

Kendall

Here are the two biggest stereotypes...1) The university is full of only "nerds" and "geeks" and 2) The male to female ratio is so extreme and the selection of girls is so poor that any male who attends this institution will not get a girlfriend.

Courtney

People are nerdy and stay in their rooms all day.

Mike

We are all guys and nerds. There are no athletic people or girls.

Heather

RPI students are stereotyped as nerds, with little no social life.

Kate

the biggest one is that there are no girls here, and the girls that are here are very weird and/or bitchy. another stereotype about rpi is that everyone here is a nerd/geek/loser/dork/etc.

Jason

Stereotypes tend to be that we are "Nerdy" and generally not fun.

Pat

Students are nerdy. There are no girls.

Julian

nerds, geeks, anti-social people (which is true of most of the school), stuck up, weird, gamers

Rob

RPI students are stereotyped as being overly intelligent and socially awkward.

Jesse

Nerds, bitches

Isaac

some stereotypes: there are no females, we're all nerds, Troy is a shady place

Dylan

Nerds, Asians, Nerdy Asians, RIBS (Rensselaer or Ratio Induced Bitch Syndrome), Fags, Pussys, Geeks, Computer Nerds.

Casey

RPI is full of nerds, and the very few amount of girls here have "R.I.B.S" (ration induced bitch syndrome)

mikey

A lot of RPI students have no lives, they sit in their rooms and play on their computers and with video games all the time. Also because of the ratio of women to men, the possibility of finding dates and/or girlfriends is a difficult challenge to overcome.

Sarah

Antisocial, overly academic, unfriendly

maureen

nerdy

Jacob

nerds, all guys, nothing to do

Carl

Very Geeky, Bad guy/girl ratio, girls have RIBS- *Ratio Induced Bitch Syndrome* , bad social life.

Whitney

Nerdy, nice and willing to help, geeky, smart

Danielle

nerds, weird, play video games, computer geeks, mostly guys

Matt

RIBS - Ratio Induced Bitch Syndrome - There are 3 guys for every one girl, so RPI girls are stereotyped as being snotty It's stereotyped as being a geek fest, very nerdy, many awkward guys Very good hockey team

Jillian

Nerdy white boy computer geeks.

Kristin

nerds, don't get out of rooms much, snobs, no party life, no girls

Tony

RPI is a nerdy school: yes it is. The girls there all develop RIBS (Ratio induced bitch syndrome), they believe they are God's gift to the world but that is only because there are so few girls here that they all get a whole lot of attention they are not used to. Greek life helps life a lot better as well as the motivation to make something of yourself.

Kelly

The stereotypes about RPI is that we are all nerds and all we do is study study study. RPI looks down on the town of Troy or it doesn't do enough to integrate the people of troy with its campus.

Steve

Very Nerdy, too much WoW Way too few girls, and the ones we have are ugly bitches

Jordan

The main stereotypes you will find on campus is the extremely awkward nerd, or the conservative reserved type. A favorite guy stereotype is for a girl with what they call RIBS (ratio induced bitch syndrome). Lastly, athletes (generally the hockey players) are stereotyped as dumb.. usually management majors.. and extremely pompous.

david

I don't many other then RPI students are predominantly male. I am in two of the smaller majors on campus, so I guess I could entail that RPI Students are often thought to be engineers and the sciences are often forgotten.

Torry

All asian, all nerds

Tanya

That we're all giant socially inept nerds.

Michael

The guys are nerdy, and socially awkward. The girls are nerdy unattractive, socially awkward, and neurotic.

KJ

Everyone thinks RPI students always play video games.

Dan

That it's all males. The students are huge nerds.