Conservative Colleges

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Most southern schools (including VA) have a large number of conservatives among students. Places like Liberty are super fringe.

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Anonymous wrote:For the most part, conservative colleges are truly a terrible investment in your child's future unless you're dead-set on your kid only ever working for a Republican. A degree from Liberty sends huuuuge red flags for most firms.

Yeah, I can attest to this, I got two qualified Liberty resumes last year and excluded them right away. It's just a very weird to go to super fringe schools, I don't need the headache of the kind of person that would pick it.

But are we really talking about "conservative" as in super extreme or just conservative in terms of not being super woke liberal? I'm a Republican and find most colleges to be painfully liberal but I think there is generally a mix of students in these schools. Schools in the midwest tend to lean more conservative (purdue, chicago, uwmad) and schools on the east and west - super liberal. But in most cases I think you should be able to find your people in almost any decent sized school and if you can't figure it out there, you will have issues in the larger world beyond college - the bubble must break sometime.

Just met a medical resident who went to Liberty. He said it was nearly impossible to get a residency because people assumed a lot of things about him and his values, etc. It does make you think

Well were they wildly wrong that a liberty student would have conservative values? Could that impact medical decisions? Vaccine science, reproductive health, LBGQT health issues, etc.? IS this resident on board for all the latest and greatest modern medical advancements, science ,etc?

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Sewanee is very conservative.

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Anonymous wrote:Sewanee is very conservative.

+1 Sewanee was explicitly founded in the 1850s to provide a college slaveowners could send their sons to and not worry about them learning any crazy abolitionist ideas from Yankees.

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Anonymous wrote:where do politically conservative leaning DMV kids apply to college?

Small red state colleges would be my guess. I actually don’t know any politically conservative kids!

You may want to step out of your bubble at some point.
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DP here. I’m a high school history teacher and do not know any conservative high school kids either.

And you actually think all high school kids are freely sharing their political beliefs with you?

Yes, I know they are. Are you a high school teacher?

Oh, wow... you are so deluded.

Again, are you a high school teacher?

DP. Just curious why do you think kids in your class freely share their beliefs. When you teach the class do you present alternative view points including those that are not PC? Do you question liberal ideas from the conservatives view point?

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No doubt the PP is obviously liberal, so liberal students feel comfortable sharing their politics with her. It's a given that there are conservative kids *everywhere* and none of them would dare challenge a liberal teacher (or liberal students). They simply stay quiet or pretend to agree.

Agree. My DC is economically conservative, and when he attended a DC private school and I questioned something he was being taught, he said “Don’t worry. I don’t believe it, but I know what the teachers want to hear.” (FWIW, it was about energy policy, which is my line of work.)

Or, maybe he knows what you want to hear?

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Anonymous wrote:Sewanee is very conservative.

Sewanee has conservative, Old South roots, but it's politically balanced today. Maybe even slightly left leaning.

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Hillsdale College in Michigan.

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We don't hire anyone from Liberty, Norfolk State, BJU, The Baptist College of FL, Cedarville U, College, and a few others.

Well, blatant discrimination is illegal, immoral and unethical.

Yawn. Prove that’s why they weren’t hired. Good luck.

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We don't hire anyone from Liberty, Norfolk State, BJU, The Baptist College of FL, Cedarville U, College, and a few others.

Well, blatant discrimination is illegal, immoral and unethical.

Where you went to college is not a protected class; so no, not illegal.

It becomes one if college’s religious or conservative ties are held against you.

Oh, darn. One of the other candidates was a better fit for our corporate culture. Buh-bye!

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Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine and SMU
We toured both I absolutely love Pepperdine, I mean LOVE the school.

Me too! On Pepperdine. I have mixed feelings on SMU.

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Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee
University of Richmond
Liberty University
Auburn
Wake Forest
Elon

I would only agree with Liberty, Auburn, and maybe Richmond.

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Wake Forest and Elon both clearly lean liberal

+2 Wake is very liberal

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University of Richmond
Liberty University
Auburn
Wake Forest
Elon

I would only agree with Liberty, Auburn, and maybe Richmond.

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Wake Forest and Elon both clearly lean liberal

+2 Wake is very liberal

The university is but the town of Wake Forest is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee
University of Richmond
Liberty University
Auburn
Wake Forest
Elon

I would only agree with Liberty, Auburn, and maybe Richmond.

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Wake Forest and Elon both clearly lean liberal

+2 Wake is very liberal

The university is but the town of Wake Forest is not.

Funny, the university has not been located in the town of Wake Forest since the 1950s. Thanks for your up-to-date information.

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Hillsdale College in Michigan.

+1. Hillsdale is trying to become the next Liberty.

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Lots of places in the Bible Belt are conservative. Think Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Univ of OKlahoma, Nebraska State, etc.

Once you get outside the coastal areas, that’s more the norm.