Anonymous wrote:Calvin College
Rhodes College
Sewanee (Univ of the South)
Davidson

Calvin is likely going to be more conservative than the OP is looking for. BUT - would recommend a visit to west Michigan to visit both Calvin and Hope College (in HOlland, Michigan). Hope was started by the Reformed Church but other than a requirement to take A religion class (a class on Islam would count) to graduate, has developed more into a "regular" small liberal arts school. Having gone to one of the high schools that basically feeds into Calvin, Calvin could be a difficult place to get used to if you weren't raised in the Christian Reformed church. Hope, in contrast, is working on getting a Catholic priest on campus to sheperd all of the Catholics that attend and has become much more liberal (though compared to the DC area is still conservative).

Anonymous wrote:There are a few moderate Republican types at Claremont McKenna.

+1. I went to another Claremont college and CMC has a good mix of political types. Claremont was a amazing place to spend 4 years.

Faber College provided Dean Wormer is still around.

Most of the LAC in Virginia are not uniformly liberal. Washing and Lee, Hampton Sydney, Mary baldwin, University of Richmond etc...

Calvin College
Rhodes College
Sewanee (Univ of the South)
Davidson

I would add to the above after visiting both. Swarthmore seemed very liberal and very political. At Haverford, the students were just so nerdy, without a real ax to grind, at least the ones we met.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again - Haverford also sounds interesting and would probably be at the right academic level. Out of Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford, is Haverford the most conservative?

Aren't these all quaker schools? Quakers are almost uniformly very liberal.

Quakers tend to be very liberal, but they aren't always, and not everyone who attends Haverford, Bryn Mawr, or Swarthmore is a Quaker, anyway. In fact, most of them aren't. The student body will have lots of liberals, but neither all the students nor all the professors will be.

Does your child want to be surrounded by like-minded students or just not feel like the only one around?

There are a few moderate Republican types at Claremont McKenna.