<p>So rather than learning anything new, she only wants her present leanings affirmed?</p>
<p>Well do you recommend that liberal atheists attend conservative christian schools?</p>
<p>Notre Dame is not much for merit aid. A girl in S2’s class had scores like your kid’s, and she is at Notre Dame…full pay. Loves it, but it’s making her parents dig awfully deep. OP, if you can expand into Texas, Texas A & M is worth a look. We know a lot of student there, and grads as well (like my brother). </p>
<p>Why not just go to the best school possible (such as Northwestern or U. of Chicago) and make the most of it, since those schools are large enough that they will have huge numbers of right-of-center people in them (even if they are a minority)? The bigger the school, the easier it is to find a like-minded subset of people in it, and to avoid others. </p>
<p>I went to one school that would probably be considered “centrist” (by academic standards; most students were Democrats, but generally apolitical) and then to an Ivy which has been described as “the command center of American liberalism”, yet I didn’t find the Ivy any more liberal than the other school, in part since the Ivy was so large and thus had large numbers of conservatives in it, even though they were a small minority.</p>
<p>OP, can you detail whether you’d need need-based aid because your EFC is fairly low, or whether you’d need merit aid because your EFC is high and you can’t afford paying full freight?
This would probably lead to different suggestions.</p>
<p>In any case, I second Hope, Centre, Sewanee, Rhodes. If you like Wheaton, check out Hope, Calvin and Gordon.
St Olaf isn’t very conservative on the spectrum, although it’s probably a little more so than most MN LACs. It’d be good (both need-based and merit for your daughter’s stats), Dickinson same thing. </p>