Tell me about Catholic U

[Anonymous]

If you are Catholic with a capital C, it can be a great place and launching pad into the DC political world.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I met a guy from Saudi Arabia enrolled at Catholic. He was a Muslim (though not a devout one).

[Anonymous]

The administration makes decisions that frustrate even moderate Catholics sometimes. She needs to do her own research to decide if she’s comfortable with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP and while I do know a lot of Catholics, including some in my own family, who are indeed strong advocates of social programs and charity, to be fair to OP there are plenty of very visible right-wing Catholics. Kavanaugh and Scalia come to mind pretty quickly, for instance. FWIW my own impression of CUA (I got my grad degree there several years ago, which is a different experience than undergrad but did give me some experience on the campus) is that its student body does lean more conservative, especially in the religion/history/politics areas.

As for the individual student experience I think in part it depends on the major. The STEM disciplines have plenty of secular students who are just there to get their degree for reasons like those you mention, OP - it's convenient location-wise and with aid can be perfectly affordable. But if she's going to major in politics then yeah, I suppose a lot of her classmates are going to be there because it's CUA and they are conservative Catholics. But it's not like Liberty or anything. I agree with 13:41 that she would be fine, and as 13:51 mentions, there are definitely Catholics who are left-leaning, progressive, and/or supporters of the Democratic party. She'll find her crowd if she ends up there. As an atheist I never had anyone give me any flack, though some did try a bit to convert me (unsuccessfully ).

How about Justices Kennedy and Sotomayor? And don't forget Nancy Pelosi. Weird that you picked those two and not the others.....

How about Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, Chris christie, Alito, Roberts, Thomas?

[Anonymous]

OP, I’m the poster who was an adjunct in the political science department. If there is an active College Democrats chapter on campus, as a pp mentioned, I would have your niece contact them and see if she can talk with some of their members. They would be the students taking advantage of any resources or connections between the CUA and Democrats/progressive organizations in DC and so would have a good idea if CUA would be a good fit for her.

[Anonymous]

Great suggestion! Actually, the list of active clubs on campus could also be informative.