<p>besides the obvioussss</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Because you give us so much to go on…</p>
<p>I consider myself very conservative (I campaigned for Alan Keyes, and support essentially all of his positions except I am pro-gay rights), and I would much rather go to a liberal college which is tolerant of conservatives and open to discussion than a homogeneously conservative school.</p>
<p>^ That’s nice, brewerfan99, but it’s very possible that the OP doesn’t feel the same way.</p>
<p>OP, look into religious schools (Jesuit, etc.) Usually they are the most conservative.</p>
<p>There are varieties of conservative, right? So which are you?</p>
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<li><p>a cultural conservative who wants a core curriculum with heavy emphasis on the Great Books? (check out St. John’s College/Annapolis or Santa Fe, Thomas Aquinas College)</p></li>
<li><p>a religious conservative who wants a school with minimal drugs/alcohol, and perhaps required church attendance or religion classes (check out “Christian” schools such as Liberty University, Patrick Henry College)</p></li>
<li><p>a political conservative who wants a school with an active Young Republicans or other conservative organizations (possibly Dartmouth)</p></li>
<li><p>a libertarian who wants strong academics, and may be o.k. with a liberal school environment as long as your own views about capitalism & small government are tolerated (consider the University of Chicago)</p></li>
<li><p>not especially religious or political, just a traditional guy who wants a traditional college experience with rah rah sports, fraternities, lots of beer, not too much political activism being pushed in or out of the classroom, women who get dolled up to go to 9AM classes, professors in tweeds not addressed by first name, etc. (check out large state schools with major sports teams, especially in the deep South)</p></li>
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<p>A good resource is the collegeguide.org site, which offers college reviews from a conservative (mostly cultural conservative) perspective. Also the lists/ratings in Pr<em>nceton R</em>view and C<em>llege Pr</em>wler.</p>
<p>professors in tweeds not addressed by first name, etc.</p>
<p>and argyle sweaters. LOL (actually, I like seeing profs dressed professionally)</p>
<p>check out large state schools with major sports teams, especially in the deep South</p>
<p>She’s already been accepted to Alabama, which is more “middle of the road” politically. </p>
<p>Jesuit schools are not “conservative” - LOL (The Jesuits would laugh hysterically at that notion.) People mistake being against abortion as being the litmus test for being conservative - it isn’t. The Jesuits are largely a liberal-minded, left-leaning, democrat-voting group. Right-leaning Jesuits like Fr. Joseph Fessio are an exception.</p>
<p>Agreed with mom - Jesuit schools are not universally “conservative”, and as tk suggested, there are many types of conservative.</p>
<p>For politically conservative you could try Pepperdine</p>
<p>Actually, Jesuits are conservative on several issues. Its not in their nature to be sheeple who don’t challenge the pablum that CNN feeds us. They will look at issues separately.</p>
<p>However, there used to be a great divide about 30 years ago between “Old School” Jesuits, many of whom wore berets and cassocks all day, and “New Age Liberal Jesuits”, many of whom didnt even don a roman collar and black jacket. There was severe tension in many houses of Jesuit residential colleges. Many of the old timers have gone “to heaven” we presume, and the liberals had free reign for some time. Now, there is a resurgence in orthodoxy inside the Roman Catholic Church seminaries and many younger priests of many orders are more “conservative theologians.” How they vote politically is anyone’s guess.</p>
<p>Some Jesuit colleges are more pronounced in their liberalism than others and still yet some are more secular in their administration. </p>
<p>As for what is a “conservative”, I agree with tk, that there are many flavors of conservatism. I lean to the conservative side, but on some issues I am more independent or moderate. I am definitely more populist than the RNC. </p>
<p>There is a book out called, Choosing the Right College, which is an excellent resource for examing a lot of the well known schools around the country and rating them as Red Light (extremist liberal) to Yellow Light to Green Light. Its description of each school focuses on many factors, including whether they still have a strong core curriculum which the authors seem to prefer. You may or may not agree with their analysis and labels, but its a good place to start and in my opinion, a better resource than college-p’rowler or PrincetonReview. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>As TK showed, “conservative” by itself is meaningless. </p>
<p>Re Jesuit schools, although I agree that Jesuits are often liberals within the context of the church and politics, I am not as sure on such campus issues as required theology courses; required core curriculum; coed bathrooms; openly gay students; view of pot smoking; providing birth control through health clinics; or showing sexually explicit movies.</p>
<p>The analysis in Choosing the Right College is rather suspect and deals with a lot of preferences that are not as clearly stated as they should be and not as connected to conservatism as the authors suggest, IMO.</p>
<p>In the Big Ten from Most Conservative to Most Liberal:</p>
<p>Illinois
Penn State
Purdue
Ohio State
Michigan State
Minnesota
Northwestern
Iowa
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin</p>
<p>(That’s not to say Illinois and PSU are conservative, just not as in your face activist liberal as say Wisconsin)</p>
<p>I bought Choosing the Right College even though we are definitely liberal, but my S likes to look at all sides of any argument, so I thought he’d like to see this book. I have to say that as a college guide, I actually found it very thorough and informative about the schools, not just the liberal / conservative angle.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that there are too many young republicans at Dartmouth. Maybe 5% of the student body.</p>
<p>@yabeyabe2 … That’s the thing, there’s some variation in what “liberal” means, too. I would expect many Jesuits to be very liberal on civil rights, foreign policy, and the role of the federal government, but more conservative on issues involving personal behavior (not just abortion). </p>
<p>As for the collegeguide site, I was too cheap to subscribe, so I only read the 3 freebies and many of the synopsis paragraphs. I have not bought the book or stolen a read at Borders yet. The site does not appear to be written by far-right nut cases, anyway, so if you are looking for an alternative perspective, might be worth a look.</p>
<p>I’d be interested to hear you elaborate a bit, modestmelody.</p>
<p>It’s primarily written from a Horowitz-light perspective, and if you take him seriously we have to have a whole separate discussion.</p>
<p>OP, do you want a school that is conservative in general, or that has a strong conservative presence, or either?</p>
<p>Princeton is generally liberal, but any student would acknowledge that the conservative voice on campus is a strong one, backed up with several prominent faculty members. This is obviously a different campus from, say, a strongly Christian college.</p>
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<p>I understand the conservative Dartmouth Review distributes ~4,000 newspapers on campus. Does this not suggest there are quite a few political conservatives at Dartmouth? Or is the DR popular among students/faculty across the spectrum?</p>
<p>I’m not a Dartmouth student, but I would say that the fact that 4k are distributed in no way means that 4k are read.</p>
<p>Choosing the Right College is a pretty ridiculous book in that it operates under the immediate assumption that a college having a stringent core curriculum is not only for the best but an absolute necessity, thus the writer proceeds to trash schools with open curricula like Brown and Wesleyan and label them with a red light, which they say means the schools fail to “maintain an atmosphere of open inquiry” …um?</p>
<p>Check out Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>While the OP is a smart girl, she doesn’t have the stats for ivies, etc. She’s also a senior, so recommendations would have to be schools whose deadlines haven’t passed.</p>
<p>GPA - Weighted: 3.65
Class Rank: top 33%
Class Size: 348
Honors classes- 13
AP- 4
(Spend my 2nd semester abroad in Italy, there fore i didn’t 'boost my grades"
Senior grades 1st semester- 3 A’s (AP stat, AP Poli sci, Internship) </p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 620
SAT I Critical Reading: 560
SAT I Writing: 620
SAT I Combined: 1800</p>
<p>ACT: 26 (22,26,30,27) ; 27 (24,27,28,27) (October 24th one); took the december one</p>