<p>Okay well I have visited Pepperdine and absolutely loved everything. The campus was stunning, the students were friendly and their attitude and clothing exuded school spirit. The girls were hot too. The schools top 2 majors are business and communications, and that's what I'm looking into. Malibu is a very nice and secluded city, but Santa Monica is only 20 min. away. So the schools seems to have perfect balance.</p>
<p>BUT.... I've heard the school is extremely religious and forces it upon you. But when I visited it didn't seem like that at all. I mean you have weekly convocation and religion requirements, but that isn't that bad. I also heard the school was extremeley strict, and that nothing ever happens on campus. </p>
<p>I don't know if these are over exaggerated, bc from my visit, they definately seem to be. So do current Pepperdine students, or anyone with info on the subject have any thoughts?</p>
<p>Well, I don't know if this means anything but I want to let you know California has lots of liberal and all-inclusive churches. There can be churches where the people don't really talk about the Bible. Given it's right near where the Hollywood celebs live, I doubt it's ultra religious and conservative. I always got a weird feeling whenever I see the celebs mention God on TV.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://www.theu.com%5B/url%5D">www.theu.com</a></p>
<p>There are two posts about Pepperdine;</p>
<p>Pepperdine falls within the very conservative end of religion and is so affiliated and funded.</p>
<p>Yet, from what I heard, material wealth (high-performance cars and fancy bags..etc) is evident everywhere on campus. I may be wrong but convervative Christians that I know tend to be more modest in those areas. My intuition is it's not similar to places like Wheaton (where Billy Graham went). Often, the adminstration and the student body can be very different. But then maybe that's just the Malibu version of convervatism. :)</p>
<p>Well, I don't see this alone as big deal. I was in a Catholic high school and we have to recite The Lord's Prayer or Hail Mary every morning and take religion all those years. Most students are hardly religious.</p>
<p><a href="http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2002/2002-10-24-lux-cars.htm%5B/url%5D">http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2002/2002-10-24-lux-cars.htm</a>. seems to me on average, students care more about designer clothes and cars than students in any other privates I know of. Not that material wealth is a bad thing but that seems to indicate the student body and atmosphere are fairly secular.</p>
<p>I have two friends from Pepperdine. One's fairly religious and didn't seem to have a problem (she's also like 5'1" and 90 lbs so it doesn't take much to get her drunk). The other is not so much, fell in love with the location, but has told me often that she didn't like the way the church curtailed things like partying and the "less than pious" activities. Not saying that she was doing anything outrageous, but she's told me that my undergrad experience (at a StateU) sounds a lot more fun than hers was.</p>
<p>Okay, I don't know where this "designer clothes = liberal" idea came from, but it's not true. I go to a private school in a wealthy area. The students who are obsessed with designer clothes actually seem to be the MOST conservative. </p>
<p>(I live in a similar area).</p>