How liberal or conservative are the Virginia colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

The president of the school endorsed trump, it’s a conservative school based on a conservative version of a religion that is really only comparable with conservative political views

Are these conservative views related to passing one's wife around to various other men?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

The president of the school endorsed trump, it’s a conservative school based on a conservative version of a religion that is really only comparable with conservative political views

Are these conservative views related to passing one's wife around to various other men?

Don’t forget while watching!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When I attended university, no one talked about politics although it was a very liberal institution which made me a little uncomfortable at times the way people despised religion. Luckily though politics was in the background. Virginia colleges seemed much more balanced and I wish at times I had attended one of them. Now it seems politics is front and center and very divisive. Are Virginia colleges today more center leaning or do they now have clear political leanings? I'm hoping Virginia colleges are still places where very liberal people to conservative people can attend and feel comfortable.

Grow up.

Stop with the threads about people not being conservative enough or religious enough.

If you want religion in college there are private colleges for that. Otherwise it's comparative religions at a public university. Liberty comes to mind. Sucky education, but religion they got that down.

You don't get to decide how much religion or your ridiculous views get taught at public colleges. JUST LIKE PUBLIC LOWER SCHOOLS>

You seem to have forgotten the USA is made up of people of many religions not just your version of Christianity. Which by the way at this time needs some serious reckoning. Because the Bible says "Thou shall not lie" "thou shall not steal" Yet Trumpers seem just fine with both of those. Hypocrites!

NP. OMG, overreact much? Nothing in the OP called for your hysterical reaction. Clearly, it is you who needs to grow up.

NO I am tired of conservatives thinking every college needs to meet their specific needs. They do not. The object of college is to get out and get a job. Ultra conservative views do not belong in public colleges. You want that head to religious private colleges. That is what they are for.

Send your kid to a school like Liberty and see what kind of education they get. Garbage.

I agree with you, but funny you don’t mention ultra-liberal views as also being somehow acceptable at public schools. They are not.

[Anonymous]

Unacceptable *^^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

No one care about you or Brown. Irrelevant and uninteresting. This thread is about VA colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:When I attended university, no one talked about politics although it was a very liberal institution which made me a little uncomfortable at times the way people despised religion. Luckily though politics was in the background. Virginia colleges seemed much more balanced and I wish at times I had attended one of them. Now it seems politics is front and center and very divisive. Are Virginia colleges today more center leaning or do they now have clear political leanings? I'm hoping Virginia colleges are still places where very liberal people to conservative people can attend and feel comfortable.

Grow up.

Stop with the threads about people not being conservative enough or religious enough.

If you want religion in college there are private colleges for that. Otherwise it's comparative religions at a public university. Liberty comes to mind. Sucky education, but religion they got that down.

You don't get to decide how much religion or your ridiculous views get taught at public colleges. JUST LIKE PUBLIC LOWER SCHOOLS>

You seem to have forgotten the USA is made up of people of many religions not just your version of Christianity. Which by the way at this time needs some serious reckoning. Because the Bible says "Thou shall not lie" "thou shall not steal" Yet Trumpers seem just fine with both of those. Hypocrites!

NP. OMG, overreact much? Nothing in the OP called for your hysterical reaction. Clearly, it is you who needs to grow up.

NO I am tired of conservatives thinking every college needs to meet their specific needs. They do not. The object of college is to get out and get a job. Ultra conservative views do not belong in public colleges. You want that head to religious private colleges. That is what they are for.

Send your kid to a school like Liberty and see what kind of education they get. Garbage.

I agree with you, but funny you don’t mention ultra-liberal views as also being somehow acceptable at public schools. They are not.

Honestly, the only one I know like this is Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I attended university, no one talked about politics although it was a very liberal institution which made me a little uncomfortable at times the way people despised religion. Luckily though politics was in the background. Virginia colleges seemed much more balanced and I wish at times I had attended one of them. Now it seems politics is front and center and very divisive. Are Virginia colleges today more center leaning or do they now have clear political leanings? I'm hoping Virginia colleges are still places where very liberal people to conservative people can attend and feel comfortable.

Grow up.

Stop with the threads about people not being conservative enough or religious enough.

If you want religion in college there are private colleges for that. Otherwise it's comparative religions at a public university. Liberty comes to mind. Sucky education, but religion they got that down.

You don't get to decide how much religion or your ridiculous views get taught at public colleges. JUST LIKE PUBLIC LOWER SCHOOLS>

You seem to have forgotten the USA is made up of people of many religions not just your version of Christianity. Which by the way at this time needs some serious reckoning. Because the Bible says "Thou shall not lie" "thou shall not steal" Yet Trumpers seem just fine with both of those. Hypocrites!

NP. OMG, overreact much? Nothing in the OP called for your hysterical reaction. Clearly, it is you who needs to grow up.

NO I am tired of conservatives thinking every college needs to meet their specific needs. They do not. The object of college is to get out and get a job. Ultra conservative views do not belong in public colleges. You want that head to religious private colleges. That is what they are for.

Send your kid to a school like Liberty and see what kind of education they get. Garbage.

I agree with you, but funny you don’t mention ultra-liberal views as also being somehow acceptable at public schools. They are not.

Honestly, the only one I know like this is Berkeley.

Oberlin, Middlebury, Brown, Yale...

[Anonymous]

They aren’t public

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

The president of the school endorsed trump, it’s a conservative school based on a conservative version of a religion that is really only comparable with conservative political views

So what? That's one person! You are conflating religion and politics again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

The president of the school endorsed trump, it’s a conservative school based on a conservative version of a religion that is really only comparable with conservative political views

So what? That's one person! You are conflating religion and politics again.

NP. Why is anyone talking about Liberty in the first place? OP wasn’t asking about fake colleges for dumb religious nut jobs. Go start a new thread.

[Anonymous]

https://www.niche.com/colleges/liberty-university/students/

Check out the conservative/very conservative percentages.

[Anonymous]

Liberty has been involved in politics for a long time and the students are political. They have speakers at the mandatory convocation each week and it’s a mix of religious and political speakers. The students were all about Ted Cruz in 2016, so there was a ton of discontent when Pres. Falwell went for Trump.

[Anonymous]

UVA vs VT. Please let me understand which one of the two has less DEI and social justice crap. Computer science major.

[Anonymous]

In the good ol days, kids tended to be liberal in college--democratic leaning and then after they graduated and started paying taxes starting moving more center to right.

I think that is different nowadays because the world is so effed up and these kids are coming out with such huge loans and can't afford housing--so they look at candidates that they think will help that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the good ol days, kids tended to be liberal in college--democratic leaning and then after they graduated and started paying taxes starting moving more center to right.

I think that is different nowadays because the world is so effed up and these kids are coming out with such huge loans and can't afford housing--so they look at candidates that they think will help that.

^ I didn't mean to imply that one was better or the other with "good 'ol" more just that I'm old . But we all rejected our parents' politics as coming of age in college.