<p>How do you find a college that is not a party school and has a great sports program and a great academic program and is in California? We were completely taken by the college admin that our son currently attends and were shocked to find a party atmosphere that would make most strippers blush not to mention greatly embraced homosexuality. How can you cut through the marketing fluff they know parents want to read and find out the true story?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, partying of some form or degree is a college “right of passage” at nearly every school. The CA “party light” schools may be Azusa Pacific or Point Loma.</p>
<p>I’m a little confused by what the predicament is. Is your son wanting to transfer?</p>
<p>You need to be looking at conservative religious colleges. Especially if you don’t want “embraced homosexuality,” because most colleges support equal rights for all students regardless of gender orientation.</p>
<p>Kids party even on dry campuses. The only thing you can do is guide your child toward making the right the choices. You will never find a college that is sans party.</p>
<p>Pepperdine is relatively conservative, but don’t know how non-partying it is.</p>
<p>There’s a book – I don’t know the exact name but it’s something like “Choosing the Right College” (emphasis on right) that evaluates campuses from a conservative perspective (though not necessarily Christian). I’ve seen it both at B&N and Borders.</p>
<p>Jenae - Think about what you’re asking. You don’t want a morally upright college - you want a college that mirrors your own personal moral positions. Nearly all students come to college reflecting a particular cultural vantage point, and what any good college will do is encourage them to gain multiple, objective viewpoints. The morality you see on campus is the morality that the students bring with them. You can look for colleges that attract only one particular kind of student and try to limit those students’ exposure to a particular vantage point, but that’s not much of a preparation for life in the 21st century. It’s far better for students to develop a sense of self that allows them to follow their own moral compass regardless of the choices of those around them. Otherwise, they’ll have to be cloistered among like believers indefinitely.</p>
<p>Just so you know - most parents who are looking at good colleges with their kids would find an expectation for the oppression of gay and lesbian students to be morally repugnant.</p>
<p>For the sake of the discussion, How do you cut through the marketing that is given the parents vs what is actually happening on campus? An overnight visitation by your student can sometimes bring this out. This has it’s drawbacks. If the host is part of party-central on an otherwise conservative campus, your student could be turned off if they are looking for something more conservative. It can however be used as part of fact finding that should be done prior to selecting a university.
I use the word conservative loosly… conservative party animals most certainly do exist.</p>
<p>A friend of mine, who is very conservative and what I would classify as a fundamentalist Christian, sent his daughter to Westmont College in Santa Barbara. For athletics they are NAIA, I believe. I personally don’t know that much about it, however.</p>
<p>My grandmother went to a Christian college way back in the 1920s. She then went to graduate school at the University of Texas. She always told me that quite a few of the kids at the “Christian” college didn’t act that way, and were no different than the ones at the secular school. I thought it was interesting that it was that way 90 years ago! I doubt things have changed much.</p>
<p>I’m thinking University of Tehran might be a candidate.</p>
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Because of the strong sports program?</p>
<p>^^A little closer to home, but still not exactly California, is Pensacola Christian University. Problem is the academics aren’t top notch and their marketing department has been a little over the top at times.</p>
<p>^^^^ LOL, sylvan! I’m still laughing.</p>
<p>Not in CA, but Liberty Univ in VA comes to mind… they have a fairly big sports program and are very socially conservative. Also very religious (fundamentalist Christian, founded by Jerry Falwell).</p>
<p>Biola? It’s a conservative Evangelical college located in La Mirada.</p>
<p>Schools with popularly-attended sports programs and partying tend to go hand-in-hand. However, that does NOT mean that most kids participate or get drunk all the time. </p>
<p>However, who wants this “morally upright” school? YOU?? or your child???</p>
<p>Sounds like you want a bible college, but I don’t thinks sports programs are popular there.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>There might be some choices for non-partying schools. There was even a top ten list for no party school (huffingtonpost had one, i recall).</p>
<p>However, if you are looking for colleges that do not promote equal rights for gay students and preach tolerance, you are essentially only looking at religiously affiliated schools - even here, not the main stream schools (like Georgetown, etc), but schools associated with fundamentalist Christian activist community. You will be better off going to the web site of fundamentalist Christian community for suggestion and advice. College Confidential is not exactly that - based on what I have seen thus far, the majority “expressed” voice is not representative of your moral leaning. </p>
<p>(personally, I would NEVER equate “being morally upright” with “not supporting equal rights for LGBT students”. I believe when you say colleges “embraced homosexuality”, you mean they promote equal rights and tolerance of homosexuality, since I have yet to see/hear any college that is actively trying to convert heterosexual students into homosexuality. Anyway, my personal opinion just that - my personal opnion, and you are entitled to your own values and views as long as you don’t impose yours on me. Good luck on your search).</p>
<p>Okay, back to the OP’s issue at hand. My BEST suggestion BUT it is OOS:</p>
<p>BYU !!!</p>
<p>Strong sports, good academics, and tops Princeton Review’s list of schools with no “hanky panky”, other than the military schools.</p>