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Wouldn't call it very close knit.

Rider is pretty diverse...there's a lot of Asians...like A LOT, and they all ban together. The European students tend to blend in more with the rest of the student body and make a lot of different friends. There is a good amount of gay men and women, but only a small portion go to the Gay-Straight Alliance. The rest prefer to just blend in. A good 70{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the students are probably from New Jersey...but New Jersey, as small as it is, is a very diverse place. My new friends form North Jersey are nothing like my friends from South Jersey...and Central Jersey has a beat all of its own that I've never known of.

Everyone is nice and friendly. It's a diverse group of people but everyone is still together and connected.

The student body is fairly diverse. The fraternities and sororities are very close and have a presence, though they certainly do not run the campus. The athletes also have a great presence on campus and a very tight group extremely supportive of one another. The are also many other groups and organizations on campus, if you want to be involved there is certainly enough to do.

Boring and uninvolved

really small and everybody knows each other

I dont think anyone would feel out of place at rider. The rider student body is made up of many nice people who are open to everything. Everyone interacts even if you aren't the best of friends. I have made friends through clubs and sports and they aren't my typical type of friends but we get along very well and even interact outside of the activities.

The one saving grace in my eyes is the student body. Everyone is accepting (albight a few divas, but what are you going to do?) Everyone's really intelligent and committed, so someone who isn't so may feel overwhelmed. If students live on campus, they roll out of bed in sweatpants and get to class, or if their grad students their in a suit, it's really a big range.

Just about everyone is from New Jersey in Rider, and all live within two hours of the school as well. If there were four tables one would be a group of the athletes, one a frat, another a sorority, and the other an average group of friends. Everyone feels accepted at Rider.

Rider has only several cliques of which I've become aware. There is a definite clique that encompasses the Greek community. There is also a separate clique of Alpha Psi Omega, the theater fraternity at Rider. They have a tendency to be quite ignorant, conceited and unwelcoming. They thrive on their status as "oddballs" as if it were a bad movie stereotype like something I've never encountered in my own life until I came to Rider, and they cherish whatever they can make their own. They try to steal the spotlight at any moment and they try to create competition with Westminster students for the sake of further inflating their egos.

Rider's student body is very diverse. There are all kinds of people with all sorts of personalities. Your roommate is generally the first person you get to know, from there once you get involved in your classes & clubs - you'll meet more and more people. College is all about the friendships, if you like someone GREAT if not, MOVE ON! When you eat, you sit where you want, usually you go to dinner with friends. Most students that go to Rider are from the surrounding states, New Jersey New York Penn. ect. How to dress for class? Thats up to you. In an 8AM your not likely to see someone all dolled up. Its really your own decision, some kids don't bother with what they look like, so if you wake up late, roll out of bed and go to class - you won't feel out of place. Your friends will be the people you can relate to, you'll have the same things to talk about.