<p>Which of the top schools ilike HYPSM is the most politically moderate ? Which campus has the least political fervor and conflict? Im interested in these schools because i dont want left wing and right wing debates to consume my undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>actually, u can probably go to any of the ivies and not participate in political debates...</p>
<p>i think politics is just......useless? my step-father spent one hours per day bashing Bush...has anything changed? no. politics are for the rich and the powerfuls. in the mean time, if you really care about politics, you'd better study your ass off to be the future's rich and powerful, so you will at least have some influence..............</p>
<p>are you asking about ivies or HYPSM?</p>
<p>Id like to know more on HYPSM since theyre the top but knowing about the atmospheres at other schools would be also helpful</p>
<p>Most Universities will be more liberal than conservative. Vanderbilt and Wake seem to be slanted right though.</p>
<p>I would say the more "moderate" of the Ivies are Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Penn.</p>
<p>dartmouth?? i dont think so!, dont remember but its too demo or republic!!</p>
<p>dartmouth is pretty liberal</p>
<p>Barbara Bush enjoyed 4 very productive years at Yale. Students at the ivies can engage in politics, or not. I don't think you should give this factor too much consideration. Most kids at these schools are there to learn, and if it's not an election year, you probably won't be distracted by politics if you choose not to be.</p>
<p>More moderate in comparison, all Ivies are liberal (and pretty much 100% of the top 15 colleges) but Brown, Yale, Harvard are more militant PC than the other Ivies which are politically liberal but more moderate overall.</p>
<p>New England will be blue, the South will be red as far as the east coast goes. Isn't Georgia Tech crazily conservative (in general)? I always thought most of the NC schools were too (Duke, UNC, NC State). You can pretty much take a look at the 2004 election map and figure out a school's political alignment.</p>
<p>But either way - I wouldn't worry about it too much. There will be liberal and there will be conservatives whereever you go Sure, I would never go to Brown and stand in public places advocating hardline, conservative politics, just as I would never go to Auburn wearing tie-dye and advocating gun control, but you should be respected whereever it is you go.</p>
<p>And, just to answer the question, I think schools around here (Maryland), which kind of separates Northern liberals and Southern conservatives, tend to be rather moderate. Johns Hopkins would be a school for you to look at, maybe?</p>
<p>duke and chapel hill are in a liberal area of north carolina. duke is pretty liberal. you will realize that most institutions for higher education are liberal. as studies have shown, the more education tends to see left-ism. you shouldnt not attend a university because it has a liberal leaning. if u dont want to go to a liberal school, you have very little choices.</p>
<p>if ur talking about political apathy....then im not sure what schools have a general student body that is that apathetic or indifferent towards politics.</p>
<p>Yeah, saying Duke and UNC are conservative is also wrong. I literally dont think any of the top 15 or so schools has a right leaning student body.</p>
<p>I dont think any of the top 25 schools has a right leaning student body</p>
<p>UChicago allows and argues all points of view. If what one wants is an intellectually intense atmosphere where many points of view are available than it may be the place for you, but be prepared to defend (usng the Chicago style of argument) whatever point of view you may hold. There is also a discernible lack of PC police.</p>
<p>What is HYPSM?</p>
<p>HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT. The most prestigious* of America's Universities.</p>
<p><em>What is prestige?</em>*</p>
<p>**That was rhetorical.</p>
<p>how about Princeton's atmosphere?</p>
<p>Liberalism and the flavor of the month:</p>
<p>you will realize that most institutions for higher education are liberal. as studies have shown, the more education tends to see left-ism.</p>
<p>Today's Special:
That truth is not objective but simply a function of power and that choice is the end alleven though, according to the latest fashion, all things are determined and therefore lacking free willis a conceit that an up and coming professor would, I think, find quite agreeable; re-inventing the wheel may be difficult, but its not impossible (overheard in class): </p>
<p>of course whether or not a wheel is round or square or triangular is simply a matter of choice and a function of power.</p>
<p>Indeed it is.</p>
<p>All these schools are indeed liberal, but at a few of them a contrarian will not feel quite the same need to keep her/his mouth shut.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Dartmouth/Princeton</p></li>
<li><p>Penn/Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard/Yale</p></li>
<li><p>Brown</p></li>
</ol>
<p>they say princeton is "the least politically active campus" of the ivy league, if thats really saying anything =P</p>