<p>NSPEDS: I do go to UT. I dunno about Bush being booed of stage... where/ when did this happen? I just know that he did get rejected from UT and went to Yale (it may be an urban myth tho).</p>
<p>jedipsohn: I wanna go to a well balanced school... where i meet both types of people.... UT is a little conservative bend... Berkeley is TOO liberal. The problem with this conservative/ liberal system is that people arent willing to change. Conservatives usually agree with everything the republican party stands for, Liberals agree with everything the Democratic party stands for... I am neither
hope this clarifies my stand on the issue.
-hindustani</p>
<p>I disagree, hindustani. Liberals and conservatives don't necessarily match up with Democrat and Republican. I am conservative in my values, but don't love Bush politics. This is why it's difficult to answer a thread that asks, what school is liberal? "Liberal" can mean two conflicting things at times.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone has answered the question about whether Berkeley had become more moderate in recent years</p>
<p>UT is only considered liberal bc it is the closest to liberal in Texas. But in the business school it seemed really conservative. I would say the natural sciences are probably conservative as well (except for like stem cells).</p>
<p>wow this is an old thread! but, UT-Austin is EASILY the most liberal school in the entire South. Duke and Emory are practically Bob Jones compared to UT. Rice is more politically apathetic than anything. </p>
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I just know that he did get rejected from UT and went to Yale (it may be an urban myth tho).
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<p>It's not an urban myth... George W Bush was indeed rejected from UT, but it wasn't for undergrad. UT Law rejected him before he went to Harvard for his MBA. This isn't a new story by any means, though.</p>
<p>i dont think there are many leftist colleges in america because of the way the usa is set up. it seems like most people who go to college are from wealthier backgrounds because to go to college, you have to be able to afford it. usually people who come from wealthy backgrounds have right wing, conservative tendencies. if you look at alot of these mentioned schools like nyu, wesleyan, berkly, columbia, brown. many graduates end up working for very capitalist, right wing, bourgeois corporations. this could mean a few things. these students were never liberal in the first place, the schools are not liberal, or these students completely ignored the “liberal” education. you have to keep in mind that america itself is on the extreme right of the spectrum. just about any university in europe would be further left than any college in usa. i think the better question would be, which colleges in america are not on the far right.</p>
<p>TAIWO, extreme right on the spectrum would be fascism, and America is quite far away from being fascist. America on the whole, is about centre-right. Yes it’s capitalistic, but government does intervene in the economy (for example, the bailouts), there are welfare programs, free K-12 education, all of which many (actually, most) countries don’t have. To put it as an extreme rightist is very narrow minded. The US is actually ranked as the 6th most promiscuous nation out of 48 nations survey in a research (whether that’s a good thing or not, I’l leave it up to you :p). About 15 states have same sex union/domestic partnership or marriage. Freedom of speech and religion is protected. It’s not as if US is stuck in 16th century Europe or something.</p>
<p>P.S. I just read an article in the magazine yesterday about the rise of fascism in Europe. Now that’s extreme right.</p>