Can anyone suggest schools where Republicans are welcome?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from small, NE liberal arts colleges.

Yeah, God forbid he go to a good school where he would have to actually discuss and think about his own positions.

Apart from Bob Jones and BYU, I don't think you could find a school where a student would not be exposed to the liberal viewpoint. The challenge ( And it is a challenge) is finding a college that presents both sides of issues such as diversity, reverse discrimination, liberal social policy and environmental regulation. Studies have shown that more than 85% of ALL college professors SELF IDENTIFY as liberal to extremely liberal.

When SMU agreed to host the Bush Library it's academic ranking fell significantly based largely on peer reviews (under the USNWS methodology) - an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars that didn't cost the university actually hurt the schools image because it was not politically correct... That what we are dealing with.

[Anonymous]

As other posters have noted -- almost any school in the south will do OP and almost any Catholic School (maybe not G'town) will do as well or any other Christian School based anywhere will do.

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Anonymous wrote:Stay away from small, NE liberal arts colleges.

But really any college will have conservative students. Even though universities are generally left leaning places by nature, most schools now value diversity and have political diversity as well as racial and geographic diversity.

Why beware of small NE liberal arts colleges? Some of the NESCAC schools have lots of conservative students. We are screaming liberals but half our student's friends are Democrats and half are Republicans. He is also taking a course on the Intellectual Roots of Modern Conservatism. This course may challenge his views and if so, so be it. It's his life, not ours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from small, NE liberal arts colleges.

But really any college will have conservative students. Even though universities are generally left leaning places by nature, most schools now value diversity and have political diversity as well as racial and geographic diversity.

Why beware of small NE liberal arts colleges? Some of the NESCAC schools have lots of conservative students. We are screaming liberals but half our student's friends are Democrats and half are Republicans. He is also taking a course on the Intellectual Roots of Modern Conservatism. This course may challenge his views and if so, so be it. It's his life, not ours.

it was a little bit tongue in cheek. i think this is kind of a ridiculous question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from small, NE liberal arts colleges.

Yeah, God forbid he go to a good school where he would have to actually discuss and think about his own positions.

See above. I was kidding.

[Anonymous]

Yale has an awesome, though small, conservative scene, if your DS can get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale has an awesome, though small, conservative scene, if your DS can get in.

That ended with affirmative action - you won't see WFB types (or even Bill/Hillary types - wrt law school) coming from Yale any time soon.

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Haven't read the thread but almost every single repub I know graduated from Virginia Tech

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most any fundamentalist religious college. Try Liberty Baptist in Lynchberg VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale has an awesome, though small, conservative scene, if your DS can get in.

That ended with affirmative action - you won't see WFB types (or even Bill/Hillary types - wrt law school) coming from Yale any time soon.

You can't blame affirmative action. The college application scene has become much more competitive since the 1960s and 1970s, and now even legacies are no longer a shoe-in, let alone legacies with C averages.

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U of Dallas

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I think OP has a good question. My British husband came to the US for ugrad and was amazed at how in-your-face the student Democrat groupies were. They couldn't answer basic questions on economic policy or civics but boy did they like to do political marketing.
He and the other foreign students also noticed the strong biasedness with the professors, a left-leaning one.

If you find a nonjudgmental, non brainwashed groupie school, do share! Otherwise go abroad!

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Why is no one mentioning Hillsdale? Great books school. They were interested in having me teach and I'm definitely a William F. Buckley type conservative.

Also, George Mason University tends to be more conservative than some of the other schools.

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I just don't get this whole thread. If your ideology is so threatened by people who think differently than you, perhaps your ideology is flawed?

I went to a catholic HS (I'm agnostic) and a very conservative campus in the south already mentioned in this thread. Guess what? I was one of the only bleeding heart liberals when I started, and I remained that way and still am to this day. I truly enjoyed the spirited debates I had with my many right-leaning friends. I liked to hear their perspective, and at times it did shift my views a little, as well as my points shifting theirs a little. Honestly, this is the way things are SUPPOSED to work in this great land of ours - compromise, meeting in the middle. Surrounding yourself with only like minded individuals is no way to live.

I was a politics major and there were professors from BOTH sides, as well as true moderates. Not all college professors are trying to convert your kids into commies, no matter what you hear out there. College is supposed to be about being able to think for yourself and defend your viewpoint, as well as learning from others.

[Anonymous]

^^^So well said. Thank you.