Here is what I found out when I investigated this. Students are usually quite liberal at most selective schools. What keeps the environment sane is the administration and the board that can hire and fire the administrators. It is amazing how much difference this can make to the school environment.

At Places like Yale, some of trustees are selected from the alumni body by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee. Alumni trustees are elected by the alumni of Yale College and the Yale graduate and professional schools. This means that you can get a very liberal board and this can create all sorts of problems in administration, if you don't want "freaky liberal" nonsense at schools.

Harvard is even worse, because their members of the Board of Overseers are elected by Harvard degree holders. So if the alum pool gets too liberal, you get a uber liberal board that drives the university in all kinds of crazy directions, like what we have been seeing at Harvard.

If you want a sane school, which is not "super liberal", pay close attention to how the board of trustees is elected and how many there are and how they can be removed form the board.

Ideally you want the following

A large number of trustees, so that one idiot with ultra liberal viewpoints or agenda can't influence the whole board

The terms should be staggered, again so that one board member doesn't cast undue influence

Only board members should be allowed to vote in other trustees. This way, SJW alumni can't influence who gets on the board. Also alums who have not achieved anything in their lives cannot dictate who gets on the board.

There should be a provision to eject any Trustee from office with or without cause by a simple majority vote of the Trustees. This keeps a super liberal board member in check.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all universities are moderate. The idea that universities/colleges are liberal is a conservative myth.

If the child doesn't want to deal with people who have other perspectives then maybe you should homeschool them.

DSs college in Colorado cancelled classes for 4 days after the election. They were too traumatized.

Citation?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all universities are moderate. The idea that universities/colleges are liberal is a conservative myth.

If the child doesn't want to deal with people who have other perspectives then maybe you should homeschool them.

DSs college in Colorado cancelled classes for 4 days after the election. They were too traumatized.

Many people mourned at that time. Mourned the country that we thought we were and thought we could be be. The election was a huge wake up that we have a long, long way to go for decency.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all universities are moderate. The idea that universities/colleges are liberal is a conservative myth.

If the child doesn't want to deal with people who have other perspectives then maybe you should homeschool them.

DSs college in Colorado cancelled classes for 4 days after the election. They were too traumatized.

Bob Jones University

Pretty much all universities are moderate. The idea that universities/colleges are liberal is a conservative myth.

You've got to be kidding me. Your views must be so far left that your idea of "moderate" is a little skewed.

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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.

You ... think this thread is only going to be read by OP? Interesting.

I addressed my post to anyone considering Alabama and leaning away from liberal. OP is looking for something specific, but there has been a lot of conversation since the first post, you know.

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.

Wheaton.

Maybe Washington University. (Lots of liberals, but also plenty of conservatives.)

Anonymous wrote:Princeton is liberal, but conservative Professor Robert George is a gem.

He tends to be well-respected even by liberal students, because he treasures honest discourse and debate.

Princeton is liberal, but conservative Professor Robert George is a gem.

Pretty much all universities are moderate. The idea that universities/colleges are liberal is a conservative myth.

If the child doesn't want to deal with people who have other perspectives then maybe you should homeschool them.

https://heterodoxacademy.org/top-150/

https://www.thefire.org/spotlight/using-the-spotlight-database/

check fire and heterodox academy grades for freedom of speech. that's really what matters and it is relates to "moderate"
vibe. I remember that Chicago and Carnegie Mellon score well there but there are many other top schools (or more obscure schools).

Christopher Newport
Grove City (yes, religious, but it fits)

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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.

That, BYU and Ole Miss are the only schools on that list I’ve ever heard of except for in the context of being super religious.