<p>I'm a junior looking at colleges. I want to go to a top school, but as I research the ones on my preliminary list, most every one of them is noted as a bastion of liberalism. I'm a moderate-conservative, and ideally I would like to go to a school that is relatively evenly distrubuted politically. I wouldn't really mind if it leaned to the right, but I really don't want to have to deal with all the arbitrary protests, etc., that are associated with more liberal institutions. Are there any places like that?</p>
<p>okay #1 dont got to columbia, but some school that lean to the right are DUKE, Vanderbilt, UVA, Princeton</p>
<p>i just don't want a, like, 70%-30% liberal-conservative distribution.</p>
<p>Washington & Lee, Richmond, Sewanee, Wabash (if you're a dude), Notre Dame (probably Holy Cross as well, but not so much BC), Rice, Wake Forest, Berkeley (j/k, to see if you're awake).</p>
<p>I'm sure there are others, but those are probably the least liberal of the top schools that I could think of. Of course, there's also Wheaton in Illinois, which is a quite religious and conservative LAC.</p>
<p>Here's my list. If you could rate them like, conservative, liberal, or if the split is like 80-20, unbearable, that would be great:</p>
<p>Swarthmore
Stanford
UPenn
UChicago
Northwestern
Rice
WUSTL
Emory
Washington and Lee
Brown
Carleton
Columbia
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Middlebury
Amherst
Williams</p>
<p>Carleton & Brown?! Kid, you would rather eat a frisbee topped with tabasco than set foot on those two campuses if you are looking for a conservative school. I went to Brown back in the day and loved it, but certainly not for everyone. And don't let the midwest location fool ya, Carleton is pretty far left on the political spectrum as well.</p>
<p>Bucknell
Chicago
Colgate
Davidson
Deep Springs
Duke
Georgetown
Holy Cross
Notre Dame
Pepperdine
Princeton
Richmond
Trinity (CT)
Vanderbilt
UVA
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee</p>
<p>Bible schools.</p>
<p>definitely nix brown, columbia, and amherst. upenn is also very liberal. georgetown and williams are pretty conservative. most of the other colleges are probably a mix, with more leftist than rightist but not really any bashing; my brother went to stanford and he said it definitely leaned to the left, but not as much as brown, and there wasn't any discrimination against conservatives or anything.</p>
<p>Columbia is very liberal, so is Rice. Your list is made up of mostly liberal schools.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I'm pretty moderate and I can't stand the far left liberals on campus. Unfortunately, this is how most colleges are.</p>
<p>A few that I know that aren't liberal for sure
Texas A & M
Baylor
Vanderbilt
UVA
University of Arizona- very moderate
Notre Dame
BYU
Clemson
Pepperdine</p>
<p>Swarthmore - not sure</p>
<p>Stanford - definitely leans left, especially on social issues</p>
<p>UPenn - very moderate</p>
<p>UChicago - my favorite school. Very libertarian = liberal on social issues, fiscally conservative. This is a product of the economics department. Don't come here and expect to preach social conservatism though, you'll get knocked down fast.</p>
<p>Northwestern - very liberal.</p>
<p>Rice - I'm actually guessing this leans left. It seems to me like something of a liberal oasis in Texas. Houston is not a terribly conservative city, either.</p>
<p>WUSTL - liberal, but not overwhelmingly.</p>
<p>Emory - moderate, I'd say it's more conservative than Rice.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee - very conservative on all fronts.</p>
<p>Brown - lmao; liberal as a default, almost thoughtlessly so.</p>
<p>Carleton - very liberal.</p>
<p>Columbia - very liberal, but there are probably a strong faction of thoughtful conservatives/libertarians.</p>
<p>Georgetown - very moderate.</p>
<p>Dartmouth - very liberal.</p>
<p>Middlebury - extremely liberal.</p>
<p>Amherst - moderate to liberal.</p>
<p>Williams - moderate.</p>
<p>I would say nix Middlebury as well. Middlebury, in the middle of Vermont, is indeed quite liberal. But yea, go for Bible schools, generalling speaking.</p>
<p>Princeton is definitely not known for its majority of conservative students. </p>
<p>The only reason why the College Republicans are more well known than the College Democrats at Princeton is because the Republicans happen to have much better leadership. Otherwise the College Democrats would be a much more prominent organization.</p>
<p>The Princeton Tory (the conservative publication) does not have a very loyal following as well. </p>
<p>The reason why people think Princeton is more conservative is because Princeton is not well known for rampant student activism like at Berkeley, Columbia, and others. Politics are kept quiet here for the most part, and more emphasis is placed on environmental issues as well as international and domestic social issues. However, a few years ago the "Filibuster Frist" campaign against Sen. Bill Frist's move to discontinue filibustering had a huge following, despite the Frist family being very big contributors to on-campus development.</p>
<p>To continue renindetroit's list:</p>
<p>Princeton - liberal, especially on social issues</p>
<p>Duke, Princeton, Holy Cross, Davidson, Notre Dame, W&L, Colgate, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>even if a campus has a large liberal contingent, i'm not really worried as long as i'm not always referred to as "the conservative" or anything. i have no problem with liberalism in itself(you can, and should, think whatever the hell you want), but since i'm from oklahoma, most liberals around here are smug, self-satisfied, faux-intellectual, faux-enlightened douche bags. that's what i don't want to deal with.</p>
<p>a) I would argue that Dartmouth is split because it is known as the most conservative ivy...</p>
<p>b) Check out Claremont Mckenna College in CA, it's a 50/50 split which leads to good debates, but you won't be cast as the conservative villan either</p>
<p>c) If you want true conservative: check out Bob Jones Univ. haha</p>
<p>"even if a campus has a large liberal contingent, i'm not really worried as long as i'm not always referred to as "the conservative" or anything. i have no problem with liberalism in itself(you can, and should, think whatever the hell you want), but since i'm from oklahoma, most liberals around here are smug, self-satisfied, faux-intellectual, faux-enlightened douche bags. that's what i don't want to deal with."
In that case, you're like me.</p>
<p>Almost all of friends at school are liberal, but most of them are constantly b!tching about how bad of a president Bush. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is not widespread on campus. There are lots of protests and wannabe hippies.</p>
<p>My advice to you would be to avoid the ultra liberal colleges such as
Reed College
Columbia
Pitzer
NYU
Wesleyan
Swarthmore
Brown</p>
<p>I think you'd fit in at most of the colleges in your list, just avoid the radical ones. If there’s one on my list that you really want to apply to, go visit the school. You should be able to figure out whether you’d fit in at the college.</p>
<p>If u know anything about NYU Stern you know that it is pretty righty and a majority of sterns are conservative</p>
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<p>UT-Austin is more of a "liberal oasis" in Texas than Rice. Students at Rice are actually more known to be generally apathetic about politics compared to UT. There's a reason conservatives refer to Austin as "Babylon on the Colorado" and "The People's Republic of Austin"! Friends at Rice have remarked it's not particularly liberal, or conservative for that matter.</p>
<p>Rice is pretty liberal. Still, you shouldn't rule it out because it's a great school.</p>
<p>"If u know anything about NYU Stern you know that it is pretty righty and a majority of sterns are conservative"
Many people who major in business tend to be more conservative. The school as a whole is extremely liberal. I have two friends who go there. They told me protests are definitely not out of the norm.</p>