<p>about UNL-Lincoln... I actually live in Lincoln, NE, and UNL is a highly regarded school. Fairly conservative with GREAT sports, a solid honors program, and they give out tons of merit based scholarships!~pm me if you have more ?s</p>
<p>Your college "must-haves" list sounds a lot like mine!</p>
<p>Rice- Great location (Houston) and easy access to the city without being in the "bad" part of town. Free access to public transportation system... etc. Their football team, well, sucks. They only won one game this year... but the baseball team is awesome. (They just one the Conference USA regionals and they're moving on to super-regionals this weekend). It's also not super-liberal, and it's more conservative than most universities of its calliber.</p>
<p>I would say go w/ either BC or Georgetown, they seem like the best fit.</p>
<p>just thought of a few others, not sure if anyone has mentioned them.</p>
<p>Wake Forest & Duke.</p>
<p>The problem with what your looking for is, as has been previously stated, that the majority of good/selective schools are either left leaning or very liberal.</p>
<p>I do think it is important to be at a school where you fit in politically. I was at a medium size catholic school in the northeast, which was very conservative and was one of the reasons i decided to transfer for next fall. I'm deciding between two fairly to very liberal top 10 LAC's :)</p>
<p>U of Georgia. Your safety?</p>
<p>Duke isn't conservative</p>
<p>dudedad--UGA is my safety, and I like it alot. </p>
<p>Drew00--Duke is much more conservative than schools of equal caliber right?</p>
<p>Right now i think my top choices are Georgetown, Stanford, Boston College, UNC-Chapel Hill, UVa, and Duke.</p>
<p>Come to britain lol!! Some unis that would suit: Oxbridge, Bristol, Durham, York, London, Nottingham, Edinburgh.</p>
<p>why are there so many misconceptions surrounding whether a school is conservative or liberal? i hope you all are kidding when you say duke, USC, Stanford are conservative; the most common (fallacious) reasoning i see for such blasphemy is that "there are lots of rich white preppy kids walking around there! lol!" can "rich kids" not come from liberal families? and regardless, such universities are liberal becuase of the faculty/ administration, NOT the economic backround of the average student. the only truly conservative colleges in this country are religious (mainly catholic) ones which few people on CC have never heard of-- thomas aquinas, franciscan u of stubenville, christendom college, etc. there is really only one prestigious college which is notably LESS liberal than every other one: Washington and Lee. Baylor and wheaton, although less prestigious, are also fairly conservative. However, schools like georgetown and boston college are NOT to be considered conservative merely because they were founded by the society of jesus in the catholic tradition. although they are perhaps more conservative than the ivies, duke, stanford, etc., they are generally still thought of as very liberal by catholics and the majority of the jesuit order.</p>
<p>It's maily just that schools like USC, Duke, and Rice are less liberal than other top schools, not that they're conservative.</p>
<p>Notre Dame (though its not in a city)
BC
Rice
JHU (less than 5000, only has d1 lax)
Northwestern (liberal)</p>
<p>UNC isn't really that conservative and is extremely hard to get into from oos</p>
<p>pirt- as a recent USC alum, I found it to be a very conservative school, particularly for its location. None of my teachers ever promoted a specific political agenda, so the attitude of the students really did dictate how I percieved the school. I may be different if you were, say, a political science major, or something where they talked politics a lot, but for most of the campus, at least at USC, the students ARE what determine the conservativeness of the school. Maybe other schools are different, but you're making some assumptions that are just not correct.</p>
<p>Davidson should fit the bill perfectly.It's smaller than your preference and about twenty minutes north of Charlotte.Otherwise,you'd love it.Washington and Lee is not close to a big city,but it boasts superb academics,sports,parties,etc.Hampden-Sydney College is an hour from Richmond.It is far and away the most conservative school with excellent D3 athletics,frats,alumni networking.</p>