<p>Hello. I've heard that UNC is a very liberal school. I consider myself Republican and I'm going to be attending in the fall. Is there a fairly sizable number of conservatives on campus? Will I be odd as a more conservative student? Thanks.</p>
<p>I consider myself to be a conservative, and I will be attending in the fall! You aren’t alone! :)</p>
<p>I am a Republican as well. I’m not sure that I will be attending, though. Considering UNC mostly comprises people from North Carolina–a state that has many Republicans–I can’t see there being a shortage at UNC.</p>
<p>Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.</p>
<p>UNC is a large enough school that there will certainly be plenty of people on campus you will agree with politically - and plenty of those you won’t!</p>
<p>Liberal/progressive organizations are very visible at UNC-Chapel Hill, from the service-minded (Campus Y) to the policy-oriented (Roosevelt, BluePrint), to the overtly political (Young Democrats). </p>
<p>There are a large number of moderates and conservatives at UNC, however fewer of them seem to be involved in explicitly conservative student groups on campus - and those that are involved tend to be the most conservative, so the most prominent conservative voices on campus (e.g., Carolina Review, Cornerstone, College Republicans) are further to the right than most college-age Republicans.</p>
<p>Just about every Ivy, “public Ivy” and top tier school in the country is saturated with aging liberal hipster professors and naive idealistic hippy high school grads who know nothing about the real world or have any life experience. This is just reality.</p>
<p>However given that UNC is located in NC which is a fairly conservative state, the brainwashing attempts should be minimal compared to other schools of equal status. Besides a lot of it has to do with what college your major is in. Business schools tend to lean more conservative even at the ultra liberal universities. I plan on transferring there next fall.</p>
<p>“Just about every Ivy, “public Ivy” and top tier school in the country is saturated with aging liberal hipster professors and naive idealistic hippy high school grads who know nothing about the real world or have any life experience. This is just reality.”</p>
<p>Biased much? And dismissing the liberal point of view by painting everyone with the word hippy is a cheap method of attack. Please. And there is nothing naive about caring for people over corporate greed.</p>
<p>Also, it’s the professors that would be the hippys and the students that would be the hipsters. You have your decades confused.</p>
<p>UNC is certainly a mix between liberal and conservative. I wouldn’t let your ideological background get in the way of your admission decision.</p>
<p>Someone this dismissive and belittling of other viewpoints does not belong in college.</p>
<p>That’s for SpecOps, not the OP, of course.</p>