I’m a junior looking into colleges and Pepperdine has been at the top of my list for a while now. However, I’ve heard a lot of negative things about a rich and stuck up social aspect of the school. I’m a middle class student from New England, and I’m worried I won’t fit into the California mold of the students. Can anyone tell me anything else about it?
Honestly, New England schools can have a lot of rich and stuck up students as well. I think the main difference with Pepperdine is that it’s very Christian and very conservative.
I have only visited once but I definitely did not get any sort of snobby vibe from it. Everywhere I went, people would walk past and say hi and it just had a very friendly atmosphere to it. I am middle class too but one of the reasons why I want to attended pepperdine so badly is because I feel like it has a very welcoming community.