<p>you should avoid religous affiliations</p>
<p>Hillsdale is also pretty conservative.</p>
<p>"Texas A&M is pretty covservatice politically, but it is one of the friendliest campuses in the United States. The students are polite and very welcoming, and complete strangers will give you a big ole' Texas 'Howdy!' "</p>
<p>While Aggies are, for the most part, very friendly, one can run into trouble in College Station for trying to incite liberal politics. I would like to note, however, that the president of Texas A&M's Young Democrats last year became a Rhodes Scholar, so it can't be all bad.</p>
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While Aggies are, for the most part, very friendly, one can run into trouble in College Station for trying to incite liberal politics. I would like to note, however, that the president of Texas A&M's Young Democrats last year became a Rhodes Scholar, so it can't be all bad.
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<p>Well, for the most part, politics at Texas A&M arn't discussed with people you don't know very well. They only discuss things such as politics and religion with freinds, and no matter what your political affiliation is they won't judge you on it. I can't say that is true for all aggies though. That is just how most were raised.</p>
<p>At Texas A&M, outsider's biggest worry should be the traditions, not liberal politics. 'Cause if you find them stupid or childish, you will run into trouble. Or if your a UT fan, thier arch-rival. But for the most part Aggieland is great :)</p>
<p>I may not discuss things with those I don't know, but I don't really need to when a t-shirt or bumper sticker makes the statement for me.</p>
<p>"you should avoid religous affiliations"</p>
<p>Yeah, if you're a closed-minded, religiophobic idiot. </p>
<p>Many of the finest and most prestigious colleges in the world are religious-affiliated, most often Roman Catholic. I can't speak for the Protestants -- which is where you will find your "Bible-belt fundamentalists" -- but Catholics know how to educate, especially the Jesuits, the Franciscans, and the Dominicans. They are brilliant men. And no, they will not ask you "Have you been saved?" or quote Bible passages at you. What you will get is a top education, whether you are religious or not. Look at Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Fordham. </p>
<p>After all, the Catholic Church invented the university, and developed most of the arts and sciences we study into what they are today. Believe it or not.</p>
<p>"Yeah, if you're a closed-minded, religiophobic idiot."</p>
<p>Clever language for a rebuttal...</p>
<p>I try. Anyway, but rebuttal was the paragraphs after that.</p>
<p>Haha, Bob Jones is scary. Mandatory hair lengths? A+F banned? And no Hillary-Clinton style buisness slacks for girls? ^^;</p>
<p>You do make a great point, Fides, but not all Protestants are fundies, of course.
Episcopalians just elected a woman leader and are generally more progressive, and Columbia and Bard are both affilaiated with them. And there are some smaller liberal-arts Universities founded by Quakers and I heard that they're definitely open and progressive.</p>
<p>A lot of universities have sort of lost the religious affiliation, as well. Look at Northwestern.</p>
<p>"You do make a great point, Fides, but not all Protestants are fundies, of course.
Episcopalians just elected a woman leader and are generally more progressive, and Columbia and Bard are both affilaiated with them. And there are some smaller liberal-arts Universities founded by Quakers and I heard that they're definitely open and progressive."</p>
<p>You are quite right. Although all Christian fundamentalists are Protestant, not all Protestants are fundamentalists -- the fundies are actually a very small (albeit vocal) demographic within Protestantism. And there are several world-class Protestant colleges, here and abroad, especially Church of England (Anglican/Episcopalian) ones. Oxford and Cambridge, to name two. I'm a devout Catholic, and I would give my left nut to go to either of those schools.</p>
<p>A&M more conservative than BYU?! Pardon me while I laugh my arse off for an hour or so.</p>
<p>Unless you go looking for a fight, hardly anyone at A&M is going to give a damn that you're liberal. I know some EXTREMELY liberal people (who would probably rather drink battery acid than talk politics with anyone that has differing views) that go there and absolutely love it.</p>
<p>And anyone who thinks A&M is more conservative than the Latter Day Saints' BYU is crazy. I have a ton of Mormon friends up there...there's really no way you can say that they are less socially conservative than party-school A&M.</p>
<p>I would think Vanderbilt somewhat</p>
<p>When it comes to QUANTITY of conservatives. UF takes the cake because its one of the biggest population colleges in the nation.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>Why do people say Arse?</p>
<p>Actually most kids at Liberty U are pretty middle of the road and the school is reducing the rules more and more all the time. Jerry Falwell just says some of that stuff to get press. He's even getting pretty soft in his old age and when he retires I'd expect further moderation at LU.</p>
<p>Eh, for me it's just habit. I have a lot of friends who don't cuss and are very uncomfortable around people that do...but somehow arse is less of a cuss word than ass to them? I don't get it, but oh well. </p>
<p>I pretty much just picked it up from a British friend of mine, though, and my other friends caught on after that.</p>
<p>"Catholics know how to educate, especially the Jesuits, the Franciscans, and the Dominicans. They are brilliant men."</p>
<p>I'm hoping you intended "men" in the generic sense -- to include all of us? But perhaps not? Catholic institutions have traditionally excluded women from leadership roles, which is perhaps one reason they are seen as conservative.</p>
<p>Catholic institutions have traditionally excluded women from leadership roles, which is perhaps one reason they are seen as conservative.</p>
<p>How do you make that connection? And anyway, aren't Jesuits, Dominicans, etc. usually priests or brothers and, therefore, men?</p>