Williams College Top Questions

People think Williams students are conceited and obsessed with work and GPA's which is simply not true. We do well because we love what we do. What love academia and the way which it brings us into contact with the world.

They're preppy jocks who drink a lot on the weekends.

that we are over-extended and try and do everything, that we are super-dorks, that we are all personality-less jocks, that we work hard and play hard

Jocky

Jocks, Goal-Oriented, From-Massachusetts, Conservative.

very preppy, very rich, white, outdoorsy, competitive, most of the students are athletes, we live in a purple bubble and we must all love williams, great education, social scene can suck

Jocks; pearl-wearing art history girls; privileged, rich, apathetic.

That they are smart pretty jocks.

Williams students are geeks and athletes

Preppy, athletic, rich.

preppy, athletic, pretty, perfectionists, smart, hidden talents, well rounded

All white, all preps, all polos and j crew stuff, all athletes.

Wealthy jocks. More conservative than students at other liberal arts colleges. Politically apathetic.

Jocky, Preppy

- Williams is in the middle of nowhere. - Williams students are ultra-brainy intellectuals. - "Williams College...OOhhh, I know, William & Mary right?" - A lot of us are jocks

Jocks, rich, preppy

Williams students spend all their time in their rooms studying, or are all really preppy jocks.

That they're birkenstock-wearing hippies... or polo-shirt wearing jocks.

atheletic preppy ugly

Williams students are seen as high achievers who do excepetionally well in many different areas (academics, athletics, arts, etc). They are always happy, doing well, and get along with others easily.

That they are either very athletic or work too hard, or both.

Williams students are often depicted as a bunch of ridiculously preppy, superathletic rich white kids.

Williams and its students can sometimes be seen as either very left-wing, very snobbish, or absurdly rich.

preppy rich elitist

I dont think there are many stereotypes about Williams.

Athletic bookworms

We are all Jocks trapped in the purple bubble, not caring about the outside world.

stereotype about the school: it is not at all like the real world stereotype about students: they are rich, well-to-do, stuck-up, preppy kids

That they are a bunch of super-athletic over-achieving rich white people.

It's often said that the student body is fairly homogeneous; the majority of students are white and upper class. As a small private college, there can also be a fairly snobbish atmosphere sometimes.

Preppy Jocks, Rich j-crew catalog types

We work too hard; we're all jocks

Williams students are perceived to be smart and driven nerds. There is also a notion that Williams students are mostly rich white kids.

jocks, outdoors, and lots of books

Nerdy Jocks

People think Williams students have no lives outside of school and that weekends are boring because we aren't in a metropolitan area.

the girls are ugly, everyone is smart

preppy, jock, no social scene, work too hard, rich

That all the people here are rich, white jocks.

Northeastern, white prep school kids. Smart, and athletic, and they know it.

preppy, old-money rich, athletic

All students are really stuck up and nerdy. They only study and do homework, even on the weekends.

Most people assume that Williams students are just athletic, white and rich. People just assume it's a white conglomeration of students who drink constantly.

Preppy, rich, too "well-rounded"

It's really annoying when people assume that Williams students are all really stuck up and elitist. I mean, it's true that there are a lot of people who act like that, but I think it is just because there are so many intelligent people here. Just like at any college, there are pretentious, quiet, and outgoing students. All Williams students just happen to be extremely articulate and smart.

Williams: isolated Students: white jocks

Many people think we have a lot of nerds and that we don't know how to party. Some people also think of Williams as a very liberal school.

They study a lot...They all have dreadlocks and are very earthy and very liberal. They are stuck-up and wealthy. Everyone does everything.

Williams has a reputation for being a party school among the other colleges in NESCACS, so many people stereotype Williams students as avid partiers. On the opposite spectrum of stereotypes of Williams students is the idea that most do not emerge from the depths of libraries until the official closing time. Williams obviously has a very rigorous academic curriculum, which leads many people to have preconceived notions of students here as bookworms and nerds. Finally, there is definitely an established image of Williams girls as, well, unattractive and plain. Williams goggles have become a regular part of most boys' vocabulary in describing the lack of "hot" girls on campus.

There are probably two major stereotypes about Williams: One is that there is some huge divide between athletes and non-athletes, that some kids here only got in because they happen to be a good athlete and not because they're at the same academic level of those students who don't play a sport. The other stereotype is that because Williamstown is so isolated, there's nothing to do while you're on campus.