Anonymous
04/23/2018 19:39
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, my kid had similar criteria to yours. She *leans*
conservative and wanted a place where she wouldn’t automatically be shouted down for her beliefs. But she also wanted to be at a “mainstream” school/didn’t want to be at a school that is explicitly conservative (eg no Hillsdale College).
She applied to:
Clemson
Miami of Ohio
Alabama
Wake Forest
SMU
Auburn
Virginia Tech
Lehigh
Ended up at Miami with a nice merit scholarship and is just finished up her freshman year. She LOVES it there.
For anyone considering Alabama and leaning away from liberal campuses, think about Samford University. Identifies as Christian, top-ranked private university in the state, and has some nationally ranked programs.
I'm PP who's daughter is at Miami. First of all, OP said no religious schools. Samford would not have been a fit for my daughter because she is Catholic (barely) and did not think she would fit in culturally at a school populated/sponsored by Evangelical Christians.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 19:33
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Most southern private LACs.
Most large southern or Midwestern state universities. The majority of students are fairly conservative.
This isn’t true; there’s barely a college town in the country that isn’t a blue precinct. In comparison to the Oberlins or Berkeleys sure, but ‘a majority of the students at places like OSU or IU or even U of Georgia are not conservative.
Elizabethtown has a conservative vibe and I know it’s political science faculty has some Republicans on it.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 19:14
Subject: Re:What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
PS: Samford ranked 17 on niche list linked above
Anonymous
04/23/2018 19:13
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:OP, my kid had similar criteria to yours. She *leans*
conservative and wanted a place where she wouldn’t automatically be shouted down for her beliefs. But she also wanted to be at a “mainstream” school/didn’t want to be at a school that is explicitly conservative (eg no Hillsdale College).
She applied to:
Clemson
Miami of Ohio
Alabama
Wake Forest
SMU
Auburn
Virginia Tech
Lehigh
Ended up at Miami with a nice merit scholarship and is just finished up her freshman year. She LOVES it there.
For anyone considering Alabama and leaning away from liberal campuses, think about Samford University. Identifies as Christian, top-ranked private university in the state, and has some nationally ranked programs.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 19:02
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Here's the list from niche: https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/most-conservative-colleges/
I see Texas A&M on the list. I imagine any conservative would feel at home there.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 17:48
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Here's the list from niche: https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/most-conservative-colleges/
Anonymous
04/23/2018 17:42
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Emory
Univ of Chicago
Most schools in Florida
Notre Dame
BYU
College of Charleston
But any big school will have people all across the spectrum. UVA for instance.
Good list, but I have doubts about Emory. Probably the science schools -- MIT, CatTech, the Calif small lib arts school that is part of the Pomona family (I forget the name) -- maybe Carnegie Melon.
Nope. Hate to break it to you, but they're not. Plus they have a ton of Asians - a group that generally leans liberal.
Right -- Harvey Mudd. The Asian kids as a whole may lean liberal, but in the Northeastern ivy my DC attends have a large percentage of non-activist students and probably even a larger percentage of conservative students than the percentage of conservative white kids.
PS Harvey Mudd is the one you're thinking of.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 17:27
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I agree with big state schools.
But part of being an adult is learning to identify bias, [/b]and interact with people who have different beliefs than you do.
This is why I am extremely glad my kids would never consider going to places like Oberlin or Brown.
Because you want to expose them from different views than what they see at home?
What's wrong with Oberlin? Didn't Fox contributor Michelle Mallkin come out of there? She's been bashing Oberlin ever since she was a student there. [b] But never heard Oberlin bad mouthing its alum.
What an insipid statement. Why would it? I criticize my SLAC for its crazy SJW antics (which has severely hampered its rise up the rankings). It would never criticize me. It needs my money.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 17:20
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Emory
Univ of Chicago
Most schools in Florida
Notre Dame
BYU
College of Charleston
But any big school will have people all across the spectrum. UVA for instance.
Good list, but I have doubts about Emory. Probably the science schools -- MIT, CatTech, the Calif small lib arts school that is part of the Pomona family (I forget the name) -- maybe Carnegie Melon.
Nope. Hate to break it to you, but they're not. Plus they have a ton of Asians - a group that generally leans liberal.
PS Harvey Mudd is the one you're thinking of.
Asians seem to be more of the mildly liberal variety though. You don't see too many of the wackadoodle types.
Asian here. Yes Asians vote blue as a whole but are generally too busy working to get ahead to be bothered being upset by “microaggressions” or whatever the latest SJW issue of the day is.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 17:19
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:And no, I don't want to hear Liberty or any other religious colleges for that matter. Yes, I realize that all colleges excluding the super religious ones are more liberal than not, but I would like to know which colleges are relatively speaking somewhat more moderate.
Go West, Go Canada, Go Europe.
The further from crazy DC and northeast, the better.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 16:21
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
OP, my kid had similar criteria to yours. She *leans*
conservative and wanted a place where she wouldn’t automatically be shouted down for her beliefs. But she also wanted to be at a “mainstream” school/didn’t want to be at a school that is explicitly conservative (eg no Hillsdale College).
She applied to:
Clemson
Miami of Ohio
Alabama
Wake Forest
SMU
Auburn
Virginia Tech
Lehigh
Ended up at Miami with a nice merit scholarship and is just finished up her freshman year. She LOVES it there.
conservative and wanted a place where she wouldn’t automatically be shouted down for her beliefs. But she also wanted to be at a “mainstream” school/didn’t want to be at a school that is explicitly conservative (eg no Hillsdale College).
She applied to:
Clemson
Miami of Ohio
Alabama
Wake Forest
SMU
Auburn
Virginia Tech
Lehigh
Ended up at Miami with a nice merit scholarship and is just finished up her freshman year. She LOVES it there.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 16:14
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Emory
Univ of Chicago
Most schools in Florida
Notre Dame
BYU
College of Charleston
But any big school will have people all across the spectrum. UVA for instance.
Good list, but I have doubts about Emory. Probably the science schools -- MIT, CatTech, the Calif small lib arts school that is part of the Pomona family (I forget the name) -- maybe Carnegie Melon.
Nope. Hate to break it to you, but they're not. Plus they have a ton of Asians - a group that generally leans liberal.
PS Harvey Mudd is the one you're thinking of.
Asians seem to be more of the mildly liberal variety though. You don't see too many of the wackadoodle types.
Yes, they aren’t progressive tree huggers. They just do their work and don’t care about campus politics.
Anonymous
04/23/2018 16:13
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
OP, just go on Niche and type the school in. Go under students section and click on “more about students” and it will show how liberal or conservative your potential college is by a political affiliation poll and what you consider your campus setting (progressive, liberal, moderate, conservative)
Anonymous
04/23/2018 15:51
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Harvey Mudd/MIT/Caltech are all liberal. Mudd actually has one of the most liberal leaning faulty of any school in the country: https://www.crowdpac.com/games/lookup/universities
Anonymous
04/23/2018 15:45
Subject: What are some colleges that aren't super liberal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Emory
Univ of Chicago
Most schools in Florida
Notre Dame
BYU
College of Charleston
But any big school will have people all across the spectrum. UVA for instance.
Good list, but I have doubts about Emory. Probably the science schools -- MIT, CatTech, the Calif small lib arts school that is part of the Pomona family (I forget the name) -- maybe Carnegie Melon.
Nope. Hate to break it to you, but they're not. Plus they have a ton of Asians - a group that generally leans liberal.
PS Harvey Mudd is the one you're thinking of.
Asians seem to be more of the mildly liberal variety though. You don't see too many of the wackadoodle types.
Asian here. Yes Asians vote blue as a whole but are generally too busy working to get ahead to be bothered being upset by “microaggressions” or whatever the latest SJW issue of the day is.