<p>It may be too small for your daughter but Pepperdine U might have the type of atmosphere that your daughter seeks, although the undergad body is smallish at les than 4,000 I think. But the school–which is an expensive private–is proud of its conservative Christian cultural and political values (this is, after all, where Ken Starr , who investigated Clinton during the Lewinsky thing, taught ). </p>
<p>Its in Malibu, which is beautiful or course, and it does require students to take some religion courses. But I understand that the education is basically secular while the vibe is certainly Christian. </p>
<p>I’d just be wary, however, about expecting a totally low-key, low-drug, low-drinking. low-party social atmosphere at almost any school. Especially at the ones that tout their conservatism a lot of that activity gets driven underground or off campus. Its not blatant, but its sill defintely there.</p>
<p>Mahalo to everyone for your responses, I wish I did this earlier. We’re checking into all the states & schools suggested + WUE. My daughter mentioned U.B.C. in Canada because her friend is going there, but I don’t know if it’s right for her. She doesn’t mind snow and wants a ‘climate change’ away from Hawaii. She’s been taking Japanese (reading, writing, speech) since 5th grade and is doing well considering we’re not Japanese decent. She’s going to Japan for summer school to cement speaking capabilities. But she gets C+s in Japanese which brings the gpa down to 3.4. She might do a Japanese subject test in Nov?
She picks up languages (also knows some german & wants to learn Latin) but doesnt’ know what to do with it… Thank you again to everyone.</p>
<p>of the 4 big California Universities, I’d say only Stanford is liberal, and only somewhat. But Cal, USC, UCLA have more conservative student bodies. The profs at all of these schools will be liberal, but I think you’d have to go to a christian college to find conservative profs.</p>
<p>I’d rank Stanford as the most liberal, then USC, Cal, and UCLA as the most conservative. No empirical data to back it up but all of my asian friends in socal and asian co-workers who went or sent their kids to Cal/UCLA are what I’d call conservative, and Cal and UCLA are 45% asian. USC is conservative as well with a large student body coming from Orange county.</p>
<p>If the profs were half & half ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ like when I was in school I wouldn’t be thinking about this but I’ve heard most schools lean left. Maybe this is incorrect but classmates’ parents have told me this often. Does anyone know about Canadian schools? Her best friend is originally from Canada and looking into them. I hear they like Americans because we pay higher tuition than Canadians.</p>
<p>Look at the Catholic colleges. Other than a few that do have a religious bent, most are not blatantly religious. They tend to be a bit more conservative that most schools, and often offer merit money. Also, a lot of the state schools west of the Mississippi tend to be more conservative with the exception of CA and CO schools. My son was at U of Oklahoma this semester for a sporting event, and he loved the school.</p>
<p>You might like the book, “Choosing the Right College 2010-11: The Whole Truth about America’s Top Schools” John Zmirak (Editor). ‘Right’ in the title stands for conservative, leans right. I picked it up at our library thinking ‘Right’ meant best fit. Even though a conservative bent wasn’t a deciding point for us, the book had some good information and would probably be very helpful for those actually looking for less liberal schools.</p>
<p>Is your D looking for a school where politics and ideas are vigorously discussed/debated across the political spectrum, or is she looking for a right-wing school?</p>
<p>Per stats from Peterson’s website, admissions should be pretty easy (maybe too easy for OP)…</p>
<p>Admission: 3,713 applied; 3,542 admitted; 1,472 enrolled Average high school GPA: 3.43</p>
<p>Test Scores
* SAT critical reading scores over 500 72%
* SAT math scores over 500 73%
* ACT scores over 18 97%
* SAT critical reading scores over 600 28%
* SAT math scores over 600 28%
* ACT scores over 24 56%
* SAT critical reading scores over 700 4%
* SAT math scores over 700 1%
* ACT scores over 30 10%</p>