Sarah Lawrence College Top Questions

Everyone is gay, artsy, moody, a hipster, etc. That Sarah Lawrence is a hippie school where people sit under trees and smoke a ton of weed.

They are all rich, bleeding-heart liberal hipsters, or hippies, or some combination of the two.

That they wouldn't have fit in at any other school.

- Hipster, 'weird,' artsy, antisocial, awkward.

All touchy feely. That we don't do or have math/sci courses.

Drama, students are known for individual thoughts, lack of sports, and drama.

There is the stereotype that we are rich, white, drugged out, excessively liberal but do nothing productive about it.

Everyone here is gay.

liberal, mostly white, mostly rich, north east people, mostly women

That we're all crazy partiers, we're all on drugs, we're all crazy feminists, we're all lesbians.

On the whole, Sarah Lawrence students are assumed to be gay hipster trust fund babies who enjoy arguing about real life problems they will never have to face. Stereotype says that SLC kids are alternative for the sake of being "different", but they are all "different" in the exact same way. Pierced, tattooed, and politically liberal, the stereotypical Sarah Lawrence student is usually in the middle of writing a novel, acting in a play, starting a band, or some other equally bourgeois endeavor.

Pretentious, "different," everyone's a lesbian.

"queer in a year or your money back", that it's an all girls school, that it's all lesbian, that all the men who go here are gay, that there are virtually no men here, that everyone stays holed up in the winter...

Generally, the stereotype of the typical SLC female is either lesbian or an angry feminist. The male stereotype is gay and/or sensitive. Other stereotypes for the student body are extreme liberalism, a tendency towards smoking, and a typical WASPy suburban upbringing. Oh, also, that we're weird.

That everyone is queer/gay. This is not true at all. Though the college is incredibly supportive of alternative sexual identities (which is wonderful) that's not all there is to the school. A lot of people think that that's all Sarah Lawrence stands for. There's really a lot more to it than just our sexualities.

That they are gay, rich, white, ultra-liberal, rude, and smart.

Homosexual rich liberal atheist hippies, 'bout sums it all up right there.

"Queer in a year or your money back" is our supposed motto.

The prevailing stereotype is the Sarah Lawrence students, by and large, spend their time smoking cloves, eating seed bars as a meat replacement, and protesting various insignificant things.

The stereotypical SLC student is said to be the coked-out, artsy hipster-type. It's really unfortunate. We're also supposed to be a bunch of angry lesbians.

That they are wealthy snotty artsey girls. Unfriendly people.

1) There are no pre-meds. 2) Everyone is depressed. 3) Everyone is wealthy. 4) Everyone is an artist. 5) It is an all-girls school.

Sarah Lawrence students are very liberal. Sarah Lawrence as a college has a large LGBT population.

Some stereotypes about Sarah Lawrence and its students? That it's an all-girls school (well, that's a misconception really, and not much of a stereotype), it's the "gay" school, it's a hippie school, it's crazy liberal, all the students are hipsters, all the students chain-smoke, everyone smokes pot, the school has no structure, everyone goes around thinking they're better than everyone else, the students there were all freaks in high school, nothing offends Sarah Lawrence students and everything offends Sarah Lawrence students at the same time, it's a sexually promiscuous school, everyone there is gay or lesbian, etc.

Extremely liberal, hipster, freethinking, unorganized, druggies, hippies,

Hipsters, hipsters, hipsters. - Granola lesbians - "the odds are good but the goods are odd" - everybody is weird - there are more queers than heteros. - everybody is rich

I think people generally perceive SLC and SLC students as extremely liberal and fairly wealthy group of people. Or that we're all gay.

everyone is gay, everyone is rich, everyone is liberal, everyone is a hipster, everyone wants to work for an NGO, everyone is a creative arts student, everyone is an idealist

people outside of sarah lawrence think the typical SLC is the black sheep of a rich family (the one they ship off to go do what they please while the older sibling follows in the parents footsteps or whatever) SLC students love to think that they are different.

There are so many stereotypes about SLC students out there. For instance, the hipsters, that everyone that goes to SLC is gay, that the college only prepares you to live in a cardboard box in Brooklyn, that alums have no money and are starving artists, that everyone is weird.