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I'm sure many surveyors have commented on the incredibly diversity at Swarthmore, and I completely agree. To emphasize this fact, there are, to my knowledge, 5 distinct LGBT groups on our small, 1500-person campus: Swarthmore Queer Union, Queer Straight Alliance, COLORS (Group for Queer Minorities), QAS (Queer Asians at Swarthmore, and a group for omni- and pan-sexual identifying students.

The student body here is so varied, it's impossible to make many generalizations. There are certainly some identifiable groups, but it's hard to ever pick out any "loners." Whether you're a political maniac or a sports nut, you'll find a circle of friends.

The student body is mostly very accepting of the differences between themselves and other people. A preppy, party-hard student would feel very out of place here. Most students look like bums when they go to class. A lot of people look like they got dressed in the dark. Sometimes different types of students interact. Four tables of students include: jock/jock-wannabees; loud people; quiet people; other. Most Swarthmore students are from PA, NJ, NY, CA, and OH. They come from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds. We are predominantly left.

Everybody has a strong opinion about their group, and even strong opinions for those outside their own group. A certain few swatties will jump down your throat for an egregiously ignorant slip and put themselves on a self-righteous pedestal for being a corrective agent in making the world a more accepting place. What kind of student would feel out of place at swat?......A student that doesn't like to work, doesn't expect pressure, refuses to open up to new opinions and discuss them, expects to party it up at college without anymore parental supervision, patronizes the "harcore frat" scene....these kinds of students would feel out of place. there isn't really a way to describe what "most students wear to class". it ranges from ghetto fabolous to out of boarding school prep and all the flavors among them. There really are no "tables" at swarthmore. just the "frat table" for DU, which doesnt' really count... Most swatties are from the east coast? I'm not sure on that one though. there are a fair number from california and the midwest and the south. a fair number of international students (many of whom overwhelmingly come from south korea....? i do not know why) Students are generally very aware socially and also quite active (at least in theory and from their mouth) Most swatties tend to be fairly well off, but there are plenty who receive financial aid.

I personally find Swarthmore very diverse because my group of friends is very diverse, racially, religiously, and economically. I count myself very lucky that I am at a school where this is not only possible but not unusual. At the same time, there are plenty of tables in Sharples with just athletes, just white people, etc. There are only two kinds of students who would feel out of place at Swarthmore: a student who didn't take academics very seriously or a student who was conservative politically or socially. In addition, I think that while there are plenty of people who are politically apathetic by Swat standards, they are still better informed about politics than your average person. Most Swatties are from the East or West Coasts and upper middle class backgrounds. A good number of students are first generation American. I receive financial aid, and while 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of Swatties receive financial aid, there are times within my group of friends when I am made very conscious of the fact that my family is merely middle class and not upper "middle" class.

Swarthmore is super cognizant of racial, religious, LGBT, and socio-economic issues on campus. There are a million groups that look at the disenfranchisement and discrimination of these groups in the U.S. and the world. There are tons of activities, discussions, meetings, lectures, etc. about these issues. It really shows how tolerance and acceptance can be fruitfully realized in a community. I doubt any student would feel out of place at Swarthmore. There's always a niche to be found due to the diversity that Swarthmore provides. Unless you are a huge asshole or not interested at all in anything remotely intellectual, then you probably wouldn't fit in. That or if you were a zebra, then you would be pretty out of place. People wear all kinds of things to class, there's really no set dress because of the variety of people here. Style is unique, conformity is bland and Swat has got style for sure. Don't want to wear clothes? There's a Naked Club on campus. Different types of students interact all the time. Each student is a different type on his or her own, really. Tables of students in the dining hall: There are lot of groups on campus that will organize meals together to discuss intellectual issues or practice a foreign language. Sports team often eat together as well. Besides that, eat with your friends-that's what meals are for. Students are predominantly left but there is space for those who are right as well. There's no discrimination against any political inclination. People are very politically active, discussing political issues, organizing groups, and campaigning for Obama or Hillary.

It's easy to take for granted the value of the students around whom I live every day. I'm confident that I'll never find myself in such smart, aware, and artistic company ever again (that may yet be a good thing; being around so much intelligence and talent can be smothering). We're exceptionally diverse, but several things tie us together: political leftism, intellectual curiosity, a love of irony and a loathing of the mainstream that can both become tiresome. In general, Swatties care about too many things to be efficacious about any of them, but occasionally you'll find someone with one passion who works hard and explores his or her dream, and there I believe is a product Swarthmore can be proud of. Everyone can find a place at Swarthmore. It's not hard. But moving between niches gives me a feeling of the diversity of this place, and that's the trick.

I can't imagine any kind of student feeling out of place at Swarthmore. Unless a student has no motivation to learn, then I feel they'd find their place here. When it is cold, students wear many layers. When it is warm, students wear shorts, flip flops and a t-shirt. I've been to UPenn many times and seen what the students there wear to class. I think it's pretty ridiculous how much they dress up and it makes me appreciate Swarthmore that much more. You'll go to a random table in Sharples (the dining hall) and it'll resemble Model UN. Of these, many tend to be students that participate in the same student activities, e.g. sports teams, because many eat together after their activity. Students from the upper-middle class is most prevalent. Students are from all over the world, increasingly so with each incoming class. I've maybe run into one or two students who talk about their future income, but most people I know don't really think about that.

Brilliant, intense, passionate, politically active, diverse (in terms of race, class, geography). There are over 110 student run organizations at Swarthmore in everything you could imagine. Grad school after Swarthmore is a given.

Honestly, I don't really know too many people on campus yet. I am a freshman who played varsity soccer in the fall, and I had a boyfriend for the majority of the year so I kind of kept to myself and wasn't that social. I really regret that, but I am now ready to start experiencing the social life that swarthmore has to offer. In terms of the political spectrum...the majority of people are extremely liberal here, but I am ok with that and have no problems with anyone.

Swarthmore is certainly very diverse, and most groups of friends and dining tables are highly mixed racially. The only thing that I've found, as a Middle Eastern student, is that the Middle East is not very well represented here. There seems to be a group on campus for every other region of the earth (except perhaps Antarctica and Australia) besides the Middle East. It's somewhat disappointing.

The decrease in racial diversity is subtle, but very distinct. I think the numbers go back to 1970, when we had more Black students accepted than we had in the class of 2011, which is very dissappointing to see that a "progressive" institution such as this is so limited in its racial scope, and usually the type of people that categorize that racial scope, in terms of social and class background.

Coming from Los Angeles, I believe that I came from a very diverse community of people; however, at Swarthmore I have experienced more diversity than anywhere else at Swarthmore. There is a great mix of race, religino and sexual orientation among the student body and, Swarthmore has a persona that allows all different subgroups among these groups feel welcome among the campus. I really believe that very few people would ever feel out of place at Swarthmore.

people pay too much attention to these issues, issues that are clearly not a problem on campus, i am not going to get into the student body

The student body leans towards a very liberal. Almost everything goes. Students feel very free on campus. I think that being conservative could create some difficulties. The most noticeable table in the dining hall is the Sci-Fi people's table,

So...we're liberal. We're smart and we know it. A lot of Swatties are involved with a lot of progressive groups and organizations, and generally there are some pretty amazing people all around you. That girl next to you in seminar? Wrote a book. That guy in front of you at Sharples dinner line? Professional mountain unicyclist. Most of us are pretty idealistic and want to change the world, so we're all resigned to living in boxes. There aren't really any cliques or anything, although there's the general SWIL group and athletes. Since it's such a small group, we have a fair amount of mixing. We really are very diverse here, racially, socio-economically and so on. Whereas in high school, all my friends were Asian, here my closest group of friends are Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Black, South Asian, Asian, Hispanic...and that's really pretty much the norm. People here are also really, really nice. Like, everbody. I've never had so many people who don't personally know me open doors for me or hold an umbrella over me when it's raining. We are generally very considerate and we have good relationships with each other, the professors, the EVS, the Sharples staff.

Students are super aware in some ways, but not so much in other ways. People will be throwing around the words "hegemonic" and "heteronormative" when talking about gender oppression, but will have no idea what you're talking about when you mention the Elliot Spitzer scandal. We have a week for everything -- Class awareness week, coming out week, earth week, peace week, the list goes on. Most people here are middle class students who love to talk about oppression and injustice and want to help every poor person in the entire world. Most students are from Pennsylvania and New York, with a big population from New York City and a sizable amount of kids from the Philadelphia area. Almost everyone is liberal and being an extreme leftist is pretty much the norm. The College Republicans may be the least popular group on campus, but they do exist (after fighting for like two years). Very few people talk about how much they'll earn one day, most people think earning money is evil. If there were four tables of students in the dining hall, there would be the hipsters (men clad in super-tight jeans, girls in flannel and tights, listening to atonal music and discussing obscure art exhibits in NYC and even more obscure books, printed on an independent printing press in the Meat-packing district), the athletes (in their sweaty clothes, fresh from practice talking about how many men/women they "banged," how drunk they're going to get, how much they hate their "faggie/dykie" roommate), the kids that were mocked mercilessly in high school (usually wearing tye-dye, or shirts with animals screen-printed, or long, flowey skirts with those strap-on sandals, talking about video games and Dungeons and Dragons), students of color (generally dressed well, in clothes that reflect the fashions of the time, talking about different things -- movies, books, classes, life). (Sidenote: these are probably the four most sizeable and extreme groups, there are a lot of normal, average people at Swarthmore, and very few people sit at the same table or with the same people in the dining hall).

I was happy with my experience at Swarthmore as a gay. No anti-gay sentiment or anything like that--being gay is completely unremarkable at Swarthmore. Given the school's small size, if you're a gay male you can only really hope for 25 gay guys max per class, so incoming classes' crops o' gays are scrutinized intensely for potential mates. (The straights do this too, although there is a little less pressure on them.) Student attire: It is not possible to feel underdressed at Swarthmore; on the contrary, it is very possible to feel overdressed, as wearing "nice" (i.e. expensive but conventional-looking) will make you stick out like a sore thumb and make you feel like an ass. Political diversity at Swarthmore ranges from centrist Democrat to anarchist. The six or seven Republicans on campus any given year are usually obnoxiously vocal and viewed as douches by everyone else.

i like the "diversity." sometimes i feel the people here try to have discussions about racial or socio-economic issues too much. because the discussion can never get past the surface because their so worried with being politically correct and not offending anyone

Outside of Heidi, there are not a lot of pretty girls.

There are many diverse ppl from whom i learn to accept other pl that are different. a student who is stupid would feel out of place. I wear a ripped flannel plaid jacket to class. one table is jeff santner, ben starr, and chris caruso. one table is travis and heid and jimmy jinn. one table is saxmaster scott. one table is the music majors who all eat together. The aristocracy is the most prevalent. students are politcally aware and hav incorrect belifs about plitics. we are mostly lefties. I will earn 150,000 dollar per annum.

diverse passionate caring loving open intense opinionated funny awkward outgoing weird nerdy proud smart easy going liberal achieving better than haverford from all demographics from all backgrounds from all experiences from the places you can't even imagine with life stories that inspire you with goals that seem unreachable with the ambition to reach those goals with the drive to find the facilities to make goals realiteis active aware searching finding looking for more finding more insatiable if you want greek life, dont apply here if you dont want to interact with all kinds of ppl, dont come here somewhat in your face, but always with respect one dining hall,you sit with everyone there is no one that falls through the cracks there are no cracks

Students here definitely care about many different issuea. And its hard because everyone has their own passion and you want to support all of your friends. It just difficult to keep grounded when you are so obsessed with learning these specific things and then you go out into the "real world" and no one really cares.

Most students are left. don't come here and expect to not be constantly under attack/ have to defend your beliefs if you are a hard core conservative or religious person.

For domestic students: Lots of Californians, lots of New Yorkers, lots of Pennsylvania kids, and it seems like all but 5{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the rest are from New England. Midwesterners and Southerners aren't at all shoved out of social situations or anything; it's nice to have that diversity, but there sure are concentrated areas of origin. There are lots of international students, thankfully, because that's a really cool element of Swarthmore. Sadly, a lot of those students just head toward the sciences and never peek their heads out of the engineering and chemistry books, but hey, there are times when everyone mixes. Every religion and sexual orientation is openly presented and accepted, so that's fantastic. Class issues are actually a source of hidden confusions sometimes, however; financial aid is rarely discussed, but some people get really class-conscious and push things into the open that perhaps don't need to be discussed. The one type of kid that would feel like an outsider here would be a Republican with a southern accent, especially if they were rich and flaunted it. The political leanings on campus are certainly liberal, and there's often a slightly aggressive element of politically active students. The College Republicans are often kind of defensive but what little presence they have is valuable and acknowledged.

Lots of talk about race, sexuality and class. Lots. Sometimes too much. There's one week where LGBT community "chalks" drawings of explicit LGBT stuff all over campus. Sometimes its a little too much--I'm not homophobic but I don't need anal sex thrown in my face everywhere I turn. I admit that I was born into a pretty wealthy family but sometimes I feel like that's a bad thing when I'm here. I shouldn't have to feel like that but I feel like if I complain about it I'll look like a spoiled priss. The clothes people wear to class varies greatly. Some people wear pajamas, some wear suits, some wear jeans and a shirt. And even these vary--some PJs come from the local Target and some come from Ralph Lauren. Some jeans come from Levi's and others are Sevens and Rock and Republics. But despite all this, everyone interacts well. Sexual orientation, religion, race, and class don't get in the way of making friendships.

Students are generally very much into grassroots organizing. Most students are left-minded and the College Republicans take a lot of abuse from pretty much everyone.

There are many minority support groups and associations. These groups often meet to discuss issues relevant to their group and to the campus at large. Students that would feel out of place at Swat would probably be closed-minded people and people who feel the need to exert their intelligence or wealth. Students tend to not be very conscious of dressing nicely--typical jockwear for athletes/athlettes or ugly high school-ish clothes for those completely out of touch with their new college life. There seems to be a hipster resurgence going on in terms of fashion, but it's annoying since it's mostly annoying rich kids playing boho-chic dress up. Most students are from NJ, CA, PA, and NY. Students are politically aware and active--predominantly left. I would say that most students probably don't talk much about future earnings--most probably will end up poor activists or end up as poor grad students. I think a lot of the people at this school are probably well off--but people always talk about class issues as if they were raised poor. It's weird. Different types of students definitely interact, but I wouldn't say that they hang out together all the time.

so diverse yet so boringly liberal.

I was gonna say Heidi has a hot student body but not anymore cuz she just penned me up.

Swarthmore is a very socially conscious community, being very liberal and very aware. People bend over backwards to not be offensive, heteronormative or supportive of malicious dominant paradigms. That being said, Republicans might feel a little uncomfortable, but they'll fit in just fine. Students are mostly from the World. They are from Varied backgrounds. The 4 tables of students will be Mixed and Diverse. Students wear Whatever they want to class. If students ever talk about how much they'll earn one day, it's in dispair over being a liberal arts major. Here's to living in a box!

Swarthmore has a very diverse student body, with representatives of many races, nationalities, religions, sexual preferences, etc. If anything, a politically conservative student may feel slightly out of place here as Swarthmore is largely liberal, however, the College Republicans do have a presence on campus as well.

A highly conservative student, one who cannot appreciate the fantastic offerings of diverse thought would feel quite out of place at Swarthmore. However, that is not to say that politically conservative students have no place at Swarthmore, especially given the great re-emergence of the Swarthmore Republicans group. Most students dress like average college students in Sweatshirts and jeans, athletic apparel, or polos and khakis (the latter being least represented), with the exception of students who dress up in suits on 'Foxy Fridays.'

In the Sharples dining hall, you find these four groups of students, each sitting at their own table: 1. The Swarthmore Warders of Imaginative Literature (SWIL) kids, also known as Swillies, all huddle together playing board games, wearing cloaks, and making inside jokes that relate somehow to sci-fi, fantasy or general absurdity. This is the club that puts on the pterodactyl hunt each year and also re-enacts the Valentine's Day Massacre. 2. The international students. They seem to arrive on campus before all the other freshmen and are already bonded together as friends by the time classes start. 3. The jocks and frat boy types, a maligned minority, looking generally hostile toward everyone in this egghead atmosphere. Most of the College Republicans can be found in this group or in economics classes already wearing suits and carrying briefcases. 4. Studiers with textbooks open. They are quizzing each other on the new German vocabulary and halfheartedly picking at their peanut butter bagels.

People are too PC. You have to watch over your shoulder anytime something you say is vaguely referring to any race, gender, socio-economic class or whatnot. People need to let loose about their hang ups on the above mentioned groups.

i'd say that students are pretty segregated, which i think is sad, but not different from any college in america. ha, i know republicans feel out of place at swat. students wear anything, i've seen stiletto heels and i've seen pajamas. different types of students definitely interact one and one, but the groups of students you see together tend to be fairly homogeneous. if there were 4 tables, one would be the fratboys, one would be the dirty hippie frisbee players, one would be the SWIL table (but they aren't called that anymore), and one would be a sad kid sitting all by himself and mumbling into his cell phone headset. students are from all over the country and even the world. i'd say upper middle class to rich predominates financial background, which i find sad, again. i felt really out of place often because to these students, it's nothing to pay $100 per private dance lesson, or to go to rome on spring break. students are VERY politically aware, though certainly you find apathetic people. they are very left with some loud conservatives. i don't recall most of them talking about making a lot of money, except for some of the aforementioned conservatives.

I think it is difficult to be conservative on campus, but I would encourage outspoken, open conservatives to try Swat and make it a more even keeled place. Because friends are often based on freshmen hall configurations and classes as well as clubs, everyone gets the chance to interact. That's great. I wear jeans and a tee shirt (often barefeet) to my classes, but others go all out and dress up.

The four tables: 1. The frat guys and LASS girls. They aren't stupid, but like to pretend that they are and get drunk a lot. I'm convinced this is carried over from their lack of popularity and status as nerds in high school. 2. The SASS, SOCA, etc kids - aka, people of color. Although most groups of friends are mixed, some black, hispanic and asian students tend to hang out together. It's not exclusive, all of them have white friends; it just works out this way. This group is really loud and sometimes plays dance music in the cafeteria. Many of them are in Rhythm and Motion, a dance group. 3. The physics/math/computer science/etc kids. They can be identified by their typical nerd look and discussion of Star Wars. 4. The barn kids. These kids are hipsters - guys in tight jeans, girls in flats and leggings, interesting hair cuts.. and so on. Very indie. Many of these people are queer in one way or another. Of course, there are other types! A cappella nerds, drama nerds, Women's Studies girls, the LGBGTQ activism crowd, the not-frat-like jocks... I don't even know where I fit in. There is so much interaction between different supposed social grous that it's not necessarily worth identifying them. You will have classes, live with, and be in extracurricular activities with every type of erson you can imagine. Swarthmore is very diverse on issues of race, class, and sexuality. It is about 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white and maybe 10{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} queer. The one place where there isn't much diversity is in politics - Swarthmore is very liberal.

I think I mentioned this earlier, but Swarthmore boasts a very diverse student body. I'm not sure how diverse it is in terms of political tendencies, and I think it takes a decent amount of effort to really get to know people of different groups. I think Swat is predominantly a seemingly upper-middle class school. It appears as if most students are reasonably well-off, in terms of how people dress. In class you have everything ranging from sweats to suits, but most people wear jeans and a reasonably nice shirt or t-shirt. It's nothing flashy, but it appears as if people have enough money to buy brand jeans or whatever. However, I think that there is a lot more socio-economic diversity at Swat than there appears. People don't really talk about it that much. There is class awareness month, which tries to bring up campus discussions about class on campus, but I think that most people can easily go without consciously considering it.

Students are upper-middle class by and large, but try to hide it: there's a stigma associated with being rich. But you can tell anyway. Even as someone who was from just a middle class background, I was made aware of and uncomfortable with this difference from time to time - you could always tell who could be unconcerned about loans after school, who could have the fun unpaid internships and trips abroad, etc. Though the student body is making an effort to get people talking about class issues, an initiative backed by the administration and getting more and more attention (as far as I know - graduated two years ago!). Different racial, etc. groups interact with each other, but in a sort of limited way. The international kids are their own group, black students another, southeast Asians another. There's an activisty LGBTQ group that I feel like was less cliquey, but maybe that's just because I was tangentially socially involved with that particular enclave. As with the class thing, people are good about getting things out into the open and talked about on the Swarthmore campus - people are super involved with and aware of identity politics, which sometimes makes it feel like there are more problems at Swat than other places. This of course, is the opposite of the truth - we just care more. Swarthmore is a very liberal school - this is a pretty true generalization that can be made about the school. I will also say, however, that while the radical types get a lot of attention, there's a big swath of the school that's more generically moderate-liberal and fairly apathetic, politically. Though it does feel like there are about twelve open Republicans on campus.

People joke about "Swat goggles" because Swarthmore students generally don't make a conscious effort to look good. It's a very laid-back and down-to-earth atmosphere when it comes to appearance.

Diverse and PC. There is definitely a leftwards lean in political opinions but it's nothing out of the ordinary for any college campus. Some people would point out distinct cliques of students but the fact of the matter is that each class is so small that all kinds of students interact with each other. I've never heard a complaint about Swarthmore's student body, so there really isn't too much to say. It seems that students are generally pretty satisfied with the way the demographics turned out. (I personally am, at least.)

Swarthmore has an idyllic campus and a somewhat scruffy looking student body. Fashion is not an imperative and sometimes it seems like more layers is always better. That haphazard charm means that there isn't a focus on brand names and designer goods. So, while a lot of students at Swarthmore come from families that can afford $40,000 in tuition annually (is it more now?) and not have to put their kids into debt, most students have the sense not to talk about it in a cavalier or bragging way. I would have like for there to be more transparency regarding socioeconomic status - it really seems like the last identity issue that is difficult for people to talk about because it's still quite sensitive and students want to be sensitive to that fact. Nobody talks about how much they'll earn one day except to complain that between grad school and the nonprofit sector, they'll never pay their debts. The less-than-ideal Swarthmore student would be: racist, homophobic, classist, politically conservative, unabashedly capitalist, and unaware of major domestic and international news.

The students are what really make this place stand out. We're an eclectic bunch and really diverse too, which makes it so much more interesting. I'd say that it's impossible for a college to not have any cliques but while Swat can be divided into a few types of people (if we generalize), there is usually no tension between cliques. Spontaneous conversations with strangers is highly common and people are normally extremely friendly and willing to help. The student body is predominantly democratic and many students are politically active.

everyone's welcome, except people who get in each other's faces too much. it seems this is the kind of place where "live and let live" reigns supreme. one table of students would be athletes, probably the guy's soccer team and a couple of their friends. one would be a table that is almost entirely black, and the other two would be "regular" swarthmore students, a mix of ethnicities, with most of them being pretty nerdy. swarthmore students are from all over, and surprisingly (to me), most of them aren't that well-off. they're mostly liberal, and in general pretty politically aware, unless they get swamped by schoolwork, which happens pretty often.

The only student that would feel a little out of place in Swarthmore would be an upper class conservative athlete. However, even they have their own small social niche. But even though most students develop bonds with a close group of friends, different social circles constantly interact with each other. Most students wear random clothes to class and don't care much about how they're dressed.

if you try, you can interact with everyone,..well, actually, correction: yes, everyone interacts because swat is so small! even if you dont know a person directly, there are about 2 degrees of separation here so chances are that one of your friends knows the person. swat is diverse in all areas except for political (leftist) perspective, i think. but thats even in the make of change right now!

Swat is diverse in many, many ways. I can't imagine anyone feeling out of place. Everyone has their own sense of style and some people wear sweat pants to class while others wear a suit. And all these different types of people get along amazingly well. Students tend to be politically aware and left. Not many care too much about how much money they will make in their future.

The students here are famous for being activist and tolerant. This isn't really true. Many students here are nominally activist but never do any actual activist work, only a small handful of the students take on that role. The students are politically tolerant if you agree with them- which defeats the purpose of being tolerant. in the classroom, discussions are very tolerant but when it comes to conservatives and religious people, students feel they have the freedom to bash them to their hearts content because they do not see a lot of opposition. The gay community is small but vocal and greatly supported as are different races. Students wear anything from designer wear to old pajamas to class. Nobody really notices, especially on days papers are due. Most people here come from very wealthy families who don't understand what it's like to come from anyplace else. I know a few people whose goals are to make as much money as they can but that's not prevalent at all. Most of the people I know are involved in art, philosophy, and socio-anthropology and have no idea what they would like to do when they graduate or would like to focus on volunteering or working for a non-profit.

All groups on campus respect one another and have joint activities commonly. No one would ever feel out of place here. It is really an accepting place for all people. Most students wear whatever they want (high fashion to pajamas). Most students are Swat are from the north east but there are certainly many from all over the world. The financial backgrounds definitely have a wide range. We are EXTREMELY socially active on campus and we definitely talk about professions and pay for the future.