Top Schools For Conservative Family

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Yes, we do exist LOL. Which top schools (please don't say Liberty!) would be tolerant of a conservative in their midst? We don't mind opposing viewpoints but want DC to feel comfortable at school. When I went to college, we just didn't talk politics at all. Have many, many friends with differing viewpoints that I think is good. I'm thinking Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Colby College? Thoughts? And, please no politics. Just school ideas. Please.

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Colby College seems like an outlier. The rest of those schools are fine. But good luck getting admitted.

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Literally every prominent conservative political figure went to an Ivy League school.

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Boston College
Villanova

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Anonymous wrote:Literally every prominent conservative political figure went to an Ivy League school.

like the entire supreme court (+ Notre Dame)

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Southern schools probably have more conservative populations generally.

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Agree with recommendations like Villanova and Notre Dame and would add Santa Clara (many but not all Catholic universities will lean conservative).

A lot of the SEC schools
Auburn
State schools in the mountain west (think Utah, Idaho)
And then of course Grove City and Hillsdale

Maybe Pepperdine?

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I'd add BC, Bucknell, Davidson, Princeton, Harvard, Penn, Ga Tech, Florida, Vandy, WashU, Wisc, Rutgers, Ohio State, UT, Texas A&M and lots others. Also, (if Christian) Wheaton College or Messiah Univ (both solid academic schools with students who have differing viewpoints and both without the culture war mentality).

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, we do exist LOL. Which top schools (please don't say Liberty!) would be tolerant of a conservative in their midst? We don't mind opposing viewpoints but want DC to feel comfortable at school. When I went to college, we just didn't talk politics at all. Have many, many friends with differing viewpoints that I think is good. I'm thinking Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Colby College? Thoughts? And, please no politics. Just school ideas. Please.

If you are looking for a SLAC, add Colgate and Bucknell. Both are more apathetic that liberal or conservative. Washington and Lee too

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with recommendations like Villanova and Notre Dame and would add Santa Clara (many but not all Catholic universities will lean conservative).

A lot of the SEC schools
Auburn
State schools in the mountain west (think Utah, Idaho)
And then of course Grove City and Hillsdale

Maybe Pepperdine?

DP. I would not include Grove City or Hillsdale if you want a school with varying points of view. They are both bastions of culture wars right now (Grove City wasn't always like this). I mentioned Wheaton and Messiah above as better alternatives if thinking Christian colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd add BC, Bucknell, Davidson, Princeton, Harvard, Penn, Ga Tech, Florida, Vandy, WashU, Wisc, Rutgers, Ohio State, UT, Texas A&M and lots others. Also, (if Christian) Wheaton College or Messiah Univ (both solid academic schools with students who have differing viewpoints and both without the culture war mentality).

WashU? Be serious.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, we do exist LOL. Which top schools (please don't say Liberty!) would be tolerant of a conservative in their midst? We don't mind opposing viewpoints but want DC to feel comfortable at school. When I went to college, we just didn't talk politics at all. Have many, many friends with differing viewpoints that I think is good. I'm thinking Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Colby College? Thoughts? And, please no politics. Just school ideas. Please.

While colleges tilt liberal (mainly because young people in general tilt liberal), the vast majority of colleges are comfortable for people of all political stripes as long as your DC is also tolerant of others' perspectives. The only places I would avoid are very small liberal arts colleges just because a minority political perspective will have less of a cohort. Now, that said, your list is all very hard to get into, so I would think you'd want to be sure to add some likelies that also fit the bill.

FWIW, my kid went to W&M and had a range of friends with diverse political perspectives though liberal perspectives were more common.

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Hillsdale?

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale?

OP wants tolerance and varying viewpoints. Hillsdale offers neither.

[Anonymous]

While colleges tilt liberal (mainly because young people in general tilt liberal), the vast majority of colleges are comfortable for people of all political stripes as long as your DC is also tolerant of others' perspectives. The only places I would avoid are very small liberal arts colleges just because a minority political perspective will have less of a cohort.

Well said.