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[quote=PaleoConPrep]As DCUMs arch-conservative anti-egalitarian Monarchist, here's what id say to conservative parents. Don't send your kid to a school that's too "conservative" or to liberal. Most of the schools that call themselves "conservative" today are just bastions of Neoconservatism. The main issue with these so-called conservative colleges is that they're way too focused on politics for my liking. Let's use Hillsdale as an example. It's advertised on all of the NeoCon talk shows( Limbaugh, Levin, Hanuty, etc) and seems to only invite NeoCons to speak there. They may invite a few Libertarians, but never someone who is truly on the Right.( Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, John Derbyshire, etc)  Hillsdale has statues of  Reagan, Thatcher, and Churchill (all Saints of Neoconservatism) on  its campus. Patrick Henry and Grove City are similar. I'd avoid these places unless you want your kid to be  lectured by NeoCons for 4 years. I wanted to attend a college that would give me a strong classical education, not one that would lecture me on "American exceptionalism", the greatness of democracy, and the wonders of the free-market. A truly "conservative" college would be like what Oxford and Cambridge were in 1800. Christian, aristocratic,  and devoted to the study of the Classics. No such college exists today. Look for a place where the primary goal is education, not Left-wing or NeoCon indoctrination. With mainstream colleges, you need to make sure the faculty is sane. There needs to be a good number of conservatives on the faculty. Whether the student body is Liberal or conservative does not matter. You can avoid students who are militant SJWs. If the faculty is Leftist, then conservative stdents will have a hard time. They're the ones who are going to be teaching and grading you. That's why I wouldn't go to a place like Reed.( even though the environment is really intellectual)  Not only are the students Liberal, but it's faculty is overwhelmingly Liberal as well. A conservative can't survive at a place like that. When I was looking for a college, I was really looking for four things.
1. A college with an intellectual environment where EDUCATION is the primary focus( not sports,  politics, social justice, or vocational training)
2. A college that would give me a strong classical education rooted in the Western canon.
3. A college where Right-wing views are tolerated, and where people with different political/religious views can co-exist.
4. A college with at least a few conservatives on its faculty 
The only college I found that met all of these requirements is St. John's College in Annapolis. I'm headed there this fall. [/quote]

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