<p>Aristotle, it was a joke. I'm not even a liberal.</p>
<p>@spideygirl</p>
<p>That's exactly my type of conservatism. I've looked into this myself, and I'd recommend avoiding Columbia; it's a very liberal school. Watch this video of Columbia students charging someone who opposes illegal immigration and booing him off stage:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnn7wTgoE8%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnn7wTgoE8</a></p>
<p>Freedom of speech indeed. Personally, I'd recommend the University of Chicago; there's an entire laissez-faire school of economics named for it (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_School_of_Economics)%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_School_of_Economics)</a>. It's an intellectual university which definitely tolerates conservatives, as any school with an internationally renowned economics program must. Many, many conservatives have thrived at that place.</p>
<p>@arbiter
My bad ;) .</p>
<p>If you're looking for economic conservatism, try Trinity (CT).</p>
<p>Strictly speaking, the noted economists of the Chicago School, such as Dr. Milton Friedman, practiced economic liberalism. They were not, however, by any definition, socialists.</p>
<p>^^That's the contemporary meaning of economic conservatism, but yes, they were classical liberals.</p>
<p>USC and pepperdine</p>
<p>wow, spideygirl, if you have the attitude that you will be shunned at schools, maybe there is something in how you present your ideas</p>
<p>"freedom of thought" if you go to a "conservative school" you won't get much of that, if you look at the truely conservative schools</p>
<p>like for years, one school, conservative poltically, and in its economic teachings, wouldn't let you date someone not of your race</p>
<p>Look at Facebook network profiles to see the % of students identifying themselves as conservative, liberal, moderate, etc. Seriously.</p>
<p>VADude...you cant view the profiles of a network without joining the network.</p>
<p>spideygirl, what do you mean "survive"? Conservatives can survive anywhere, even at the top schools, but not necessarily thrive there (unless "thriving" does not preclude being on the defensive side all the time). To thrive, you will need to find a student body that's at least half conservative. No top school meets this criterion.</p>
<p>Try the following:
Bob Jones University, Liberty, Brigham young, Wheaton (IL), Thomas Aquinas (CA).</p>
<p>If you go to schools where the majority of students are majoring in business or engineering you are likely to find a lot of fiscally conservative students. Business owners tend to be fiscally conservative because they need low business taxes in order to survive as a business. People majoring in practical, career oriented majors on average tend to be more fiscally conservative. If you want politically conservative, you can go to any state school in a red state and you will probably find a lot of Bush supporters.</p>
<p>wonder why most of the top schools have that liberal leaning, and the conservative leaning schools, not so great, in general (with some notable exceptions)</p>
<p>hmmmmmmm</p>
<p>Because smart people are liberal.</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>Haha. As a conservative... a teenage conservative... I have to agree with a previous poster who questioned the idea of wanting to go to a school aligned with your views. I've definitely learned from - if not always enjoyed - my liberal peers (the vast majority). There's so much to be said for putting yourself in an environment where your ideals will be tested.</p>
<p>Tell me "teenage conservative"... What is a 'conservative'?</p>
<p>@ ricegal, I come from a red state and let me just say that you have to search high and low to find a bush supporter, much less at a state college.</p>
<p>There are some interesting asumptions in some of the posts.</p>
<p>Citygirlsmom...Um...yeah...I'm going to have to say that...I guess you should just read the rest of my posts on this thread which came before yours. (Office Space intonation - watch it it is hilarious). BTW, the reason for the original post was that on some campuses, conservative ideas have been met with outrageous intolerance no matter how appropriately they were presented. And that is not a good thing for a place of learning.</p>
<p>Ricegal: Fiscal/Political Conservative does not necessarily = Bush supporter.</p>
<p>^ I've never met anyone, no matter how liberal, who would actually get on someone's case for being fiscally conservative; 90% of the controversy is purely social. Can you elaborate on what you mean by politically conservative?</p>
<p>To me, being a conservative involves having opinions that happened to be shared, more than 50% of the time, by the Republican party (or, at least, claim to share...). I know that "conservative" and "Republican" are not interchangeable but in this day and age, it's kind of what it turns out to be, even if that's not quite accurate. Political conservatives have both fiscal and social conservative views which together give them that title.</p>
<p>Of course, the fact that on those "political leaning" quizzes, I tend to answer 13 right-wing and 12 left, makes me more clearly a moderate than anything else, but my friends still like to argue with me, even if I agree with them half the time. :-)</p>
<p>That's what I thought, but the OP said that she doesn't mean socially conservative, so that only leaves fiscal.</p>