University of California-Santa Barbara Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at your school?

Ericka

We like to party, and do it a lot, possibly making others believe we spend little time studying.

Alexa

that all we do is party and get drunk

Kristin

UCSB is seen as a party school, and the students might be seen as surfer-stoner-slakcer partiers.

Andy

Negative: Beach bums, STD-ridden students, and drunken promiscuous persons. Positive: Amazing classes/teachers, best campus/location EVER, multifarious students, and incredible/friendly/HOT young adults everywhere.

Alex

They always party and are a little out of control. They are not good students. Girls are slutty and all students do is drink and have sex.

Alex

drinking school, partying school

courtney

that it is only a beach-hippie school

Alex

we are only here to party!

Christine

We are constantly thought of as a party school with tons of binge drinkers and lots of sex. I've heard the constant "U Can Study Buzzed" reputation or "University of Casual Sex and Beer"

lydia

Spoiled, white, rich kids who party all the time. Laid back surfers.

Corey

party school, hottest UC

Katherine

Everyone thinks we party too hard, don't get any work done, and drink too much.

Amy

People think of UCSB as the smart party school. The students know how to work hard and play hard. Students are stereotyped as being party-crazy, drunks, beach bums, or blonde bimbos.

Jennifer

That we drink too much.

Marie

Many stereotypes about UCSB are that is it just a big party school and that is it. Also, that students here are unintelligent and unfocused. When a parent asked me as a senior where i was going and responded with UCSB, they said "you're too smart for that." People seem to look at UCSB as a joke in some ways.

Rebecca

That they know how to study hard and play hard. They are also stereotyped as attractive and unfortunately not diverse.

Alexandra

We seem to be labeled as primarily blonde surfing beach bunnies who love to party.

alexa

partying, drugs, beautiful people, wealthy and white, promiscuous

Carson

Some stereotypes are that all we do is party and lay out in the sun. I mean at least people are half right. What bothers me though is that people don't realize that the majority of the people attending UCSB are really intelligent and are also dedicated about academics.

Blake

Pretty, superficial, slutty, party school, do a lot of drugs, binge drink way too much, dirty and have a lot of STDs.

Jess

Some stereotypes about UCSB students include people who drink too much, are always at the beach, and rather be anywhere but in class.

Katie

that all we do is party

Jamie

The stereotype is that all we do is drink. We are all blonde, beautiful, thin, tan & in our bathers 24/7. No one takes school or their classes seriously & we are just here to party for 4 years [or more if we can].

Michelle

A lot of people think that we're shallow, dumb, and all we care about is partying.

Jordan

They party too much

Olivia

UCSB is definitely known as a party school, but there is no doubt that we are also known for our incredible research as well.

Jessica

They party really hard all the time, they arent that smart.

Brittany

party animals, slackers, beach bums

Andy

Party school, skanky, lazy

Christina

UCSB is known to be a crazy party school whose students do nothing but drink and party all day and all night.

Owen

That all we do is party and no one cares about school.

Laura

It is filled with superficial party students. We party all day everyday. We are number 1 for STDs.

Andy

I think people think we are a lot of rich white kids who only want to get drunk and party

Sasha

I know that we have the reputation for being a very fit school, so this naturally means that most people here are in shape (there aren't that many fat/obese students)! There is the obvious assumption that we are all hardcore partiers thanks to our school's reputation as a "party school".

Sara

that we party hard; that we are an outta control party school. that we're a lot of surfers. tan, pretty, blonde, have eating disordesrs.

Brittany

The fact that UCSB is a "party school" and that the majority of the students here (both male and female) have some form of sexually transmitted disease.

Jennifer

alcoholics, sex-crazed, bitchy girls, meat-head guys, a lot of money/wealth

Laura

We party a lot and are sluts. Everybody is dirty.

Leah

UCSB is typically seen as a party school where all of the "beautiful people" go. Since it is seen as so much of a party school, the students are seen as not as being as smart as they really are.

Andy

we all love to party all the time.

Ryan

Hard partyers, "couldn't get into a 'real' college," all blonde so-calers,

Vanessa

Alcoholics, Surfers

Tate

Hot girls, party school, students drink a lot, not a very good school...

Lauren

We drink and party a lot, but we are smart. All the students here are blonde and beautiful.

Vanessa

That we party all the time and are not very smart. People think that there are just a bunch of pretty people that go here that just lay on the beach all day.

Danielle

unintelligent, superficial

Katie

That all we do is party, where in reality we do work really hard at school and have a great academics.

Parker

That most of the students here are rich white kids who are simply here to party.

Mary

UCSB students drink heavily and are party animals.

Casey

Party School, alcoholics, sexaholics, drug addicts, hippies, beach!