The University of Texas at Austin Top Questions

We party hard.

Everyone who got in was in the top ten percent of his or her high school.

That nobody knows each other because there are so many students. Everyone is liberal.

Which races choose which majors, Greek life, athletes

they are smart, liberal, and hippie green children

That we are party students and that all the girls are blonde sorority types.

That we are a huge party school

Texas is a hippy liberal school. The students are all this type of tree hugging student

-that they're competitive -that they think they're better than all other schools in Texas -that they're hick

Rich, liberal, smart

That UT is not a challenging school in comparison to ivy league school. UT is just a bunch of rich kids. At UT you are just a number.

Like to drink, southern?

Smart, liberal, Texans, partiers, sports fans, rich, in a frat or sorority, apathetic

Liberal, independent, ethnic, active

Stereotypes are that they party all the time, everyone wears cowboy boots, everyone loves football

liberal campus, smart students, huge student body, lots to do

Don't really know. We're too liberal, we're too conservative. Texas sucks. It doesn't suck. Whatever.

rich and bright

A stereotype that I do not appreciate is that Texas is just another state school. People that do not apply to Texas do not know how hard it is to get in.

It is BIG. The student population is very diverse, you will feel lost.

If you are in a fraternity or sorority you are rich and just buy your friends.

That U.T students are snobs. There are also the stereotypes taht all frat boys and sorririty girls are stupod

We are the BEST! We are great fans, we attend most games and scream like crazy. We love to party but study during the week.

Smart, Huge school where its impossible to meet people

I don't know if there is any one stereotype in particular. To some there is a stereotype that we are very fratty and that everyone here likes to party a lot. Also there is one that business students think they are so much better than liberal arts students. Thats about all I know of.

Weird, "Austiny", eclectic, snobby, rich

smart party-ers hippies gay/lesbian

I hear UT students party a lot, but I don't personally know. Lots of liberals apparently (which is pretty awesome)

the stereotypes people have about is that we're really smart and studious, which isn't often true. they also believe we all like football.

Fraternity members are good for nothing except contributing to the profits of alcoholic beverage companies.

Cowboys, Liberal, from Big Cities, from Texas

We are all bad ass

We love UT, we love UT football. It is very diverse but very racialy separated too

Gosh I don't know what the stereotypes are. That it's Asian invasion perhaps. I have friends from A&M come here to visit (which they do a lot on the weekends because there's NOTHING TO DO IN COLLEGE STATION. Ha ha) who are surprised by the sheer amount of non-white students. Granted, there's a buttload of of them here, but that only means UT is very, VERY diverse and cultured, and you can make friends anywhere given the self-motivation.

sixth street party people liberal rich smart and accomplished embracing of all-natural products superficial and obsessed with acheivement

Most people think that UT students party alot and are really into greek life.

We party a lot

Party School

party animals

They are all party (drink) students, liberal. They love football and basketball.

binge drinkers, partiers, could have gone to a better college but decided to go to UT for cheaper tuition and friends

They're all football fanatics.

the students always party and the usual "Texan" stereotypes

That we are all liberal, smart kids that party all the time.

Having gone to a very conservative, Christian high school, I was always told that UT was a school comprised primarily of crazy liberals and "hippies", with few "normal" kids.

Hmm....I have heard it say many times that the campus is so big it takes and hour to walk to class. Also that everyone that goes to UT are smart

Being one of the largest universities in the United States, UT has one of the most diverse campus's. There are stereotypes ranging from smart Asians to stupid sorority girls to the athletic black people.

Diverse and liberal

Students that go to other universities, especially other schools in Texas, seem to think that UT's students are stuck up, especially when it comes to athletics (which may explain why so many people think it's cute to throw down the Horns.)

The majority of the state of Texas is quite conservative. However, the lovely town of Austin remains the sole haven for those with leftist leanings, so naturally everyone, or at least everyone in Texas, assumes that the majority of UT students are liberal pot-smoking hippies. There is an overwhelming fear among adults that their good conservative Christian kids will do a complete 180, becoming radical anarchists, environmentalists, homosexuals, atheists, or a number of other dangerous classifications. A mother, father, or high school counselor might semi-jokingly warn a UT-bound student, "Now, just make sure you don't turn into a liberal atheist or something crazy like that!"