<p>to the same degree as in high school? my hs is really bad. People from different cliques (ethinic, social or any clique) NEVER mix. Its like once the cliques are formed at the start of the year, no one ever clique-hops, and just hang around the same people all the time...</p>
<p>Are colleges like this? i espeically dislike ethnic cliques.</p>
<p>still clique-ish, the only difference being that the cliques are a little larger size</p>
<p>that's true at least for my school anyway</p>
<p>Yeah, a little cliquish in all aspects, but especially ethnically in many universities.</p>
<p>However, college has many more people to meet and many more things to do, so it won't be as bad as a crammed up high school where you pass by the same people in the same halls every day.</p>
<p>At my school, yes it is pretty cliquish.</p>
<p>Depends on the university--attitudes of students toward cliques, what the university does to facilitate mixing and diversity and so forth.
My advice would be to not be afraid of getting to know people outside your "clique." Also, look for places that other interesting people might hang out.
One office here that actually focuses on diversity is called Multi-Ethnic Programs (MEP). My entire freshmen year and first half of my sophomore yr, I avoided that office because I'm white! But a number of my friends (Caucasian, Asian, African-American, and Hispanic) work there and other students go and hang out there. The office is built to facilitate hanging out (i.e., all the desks face inward and there are couches facing inward as well with the 2 doors right beside the couches and an old Super Nintendo and TV sit in the corner--although they rarely get used because people love to just hang in there and socialize).
So anyway, look for hidden gems on campus. Student Unions and so forth can be great at some schools as well. Don't be limited by cliques!</p>
<p>It depends on the size of the school. I go to a large University, and it's not really cliqueish like HS....I mean, you do tend to hang out w/ the kids from the activities you're involved in the most... And Greeks tend to be on their own too kinda...but everyone mixes together... Nobody is "popular" or "unpopular". I would imagine it is more cliqueish at smaller schools</p>
<p>I've found the cliques are much smaller in college (my new school) but that's probably because it's tiny. At my old college they were big and ugly. In high school, there were groups that hung out, but really three big cliques: "preps/jocks", "nerds", and "goths". I was a prep/jock despite being in band (me and maybe 15 others in the band). Most of the band people were nerds, and trust me, they never got along with the popular people. Nor did they ever really make an effort. The goths we just avoided altogether, probably because the girls were afraid of them and the guys just hung with them.</p>
<p>At college, the biggest group seems to be African Americans. They never hang with the white people. Keep in mind I'm in PA, where discrimination is not a problem. Even in class, they sit in their own "section" for some reason. I don't understand it.</p>
<p>The "clique" I'm in is me and two other guys. We all went to my high school so we hang out. However, I'm managing to join other cliques for when they're not around. I brought a few groups of friends together in middle school to form one big group (I had a party and they all kind of got to know each other). I'm hoping for the same thing here because I think my old friends would really like these other people...we'll just have to see what happens. They may even know these guys through classes, you never know.</p>
<p>Oh, and another thing--typically the "like" people dress the same. At high school, it was A&F. At college, many of the people I've gotten to know dress like I do. Funny how that works out.</p>
<p>*** is a clique</p>
<p>Life is cliqueish</p>
<p>My college is pretty big. But within dorms, classes, etc, cliques definitely form. It just happens. I guess it's not as obvious as in high school, since this school is so much bigger, but they're still there.</p>
<p>It does depend on the school, but what I've noticed is that cliques tend to form out of people's natural fear of learning something new.</p>
<p>Ironically, a college can actually remove that fear. Some of the schools I've seen caused people to gather friends from all walks of life; all that was required was that you had SOMETHING in common with that person, be it a love of theater, or a passion for Russian literature, or a need to be intensely Democratic.</p>
<p>Yet at the same time, you might realize that the person you're friends with is a Republican, and loves theater, or perfers Eurypides over Tolstoy, but voted for Al Gore last election. </p>
<p>The one thing that draws you to a person doesn't mean that all your interests will be alike. </p>
<p>It's actually a very cool thing, because then you wind up meeting people who have a wide variety of interests, and because they share one or two of YOUR interests, you learn about new things from them, and in so learning, you cease to fear the newness of it all.</p>
<p>It's part of growing up, and it's actually a lot of fun to experience.</p>