<p>Yeah my list might look more like:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Princeton</p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth/ Penn/ Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard/ Yale/ Brown</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The recent election of three non-administration approved petition candidates to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees bodes well for nudging the administration and faculty back to the center....but it could take years. The student body as a whole is not overtly political.</p>
<p>I thought it was two petition candidates...</p>
<p>Two this year, one last year.</p>
<p>all the ivies are rather liberal, and Brown & Yale are <em>extremely liberal</em>
the others are more moderate, but all still lean very left</p>
<p>Ivy League*</p>
<p>< RIGHT ----------------- CENTER ---------------- LEFT></p>
<p>< P-ton D-mouth Penn Cornell Columbia Harvard Yale Brown ></p>
<p>*(this spectrum is of course all RELATIVE to each other - i.e. none of the Ivies can be considered truly one extreme or another - if anything they all lean to the left of center vs. mainstream America - that said, Brown RELATIVE to Princeton would be considered liberal)</p>
<p>I think this is sort of accurate, although I might slit Dartmouth left of Penn and maybe even Cornell. One thing is that "liberalism" is hard to guage. There will be very very liberal elements at all these schools, and overall the student body will be on the left. Conservative views are much likely to be accepted at Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth, and Cornell however.</p>
<p>Is it true that Princeton is generally politically apathetic or is it just the most conservative Ivy?</p>
<p>if you don't want to encounter and engage in political debate during your four years you shouldn't go to an ivy league school. regardless of your politics, there is no such thing as an apolitcal opinion or mode of inquiry, regardless of whether you study literature or math.</p>
<p>of the schools you mentioned, MIT is the most politically apathetic, but even there students will organize behind causes that are important to them--particularly if they are related to issues on campus.</p>
<p>i think your concerns are misplaced.</p>
<p>agree with Slipper's comments about the difficulty of guaging the "liberalism" at any one of these schools (they all do lean to the left in the overall scheme of things) - I was trying to "paint" an overall picture of the relative "liberalism" vs. one another.</p>
<p>That said, each school will have "pockets" of conservatism and as Slipper mentioned those views will likely have more acceptance at the schools at the "right" spectrum.</p>
<p>Yes, Princeton is so politically inactive that students staged a two-week long filibuster in front of the student center and then took it to D.C. That's political apathy if I ever heard it ;)</p>
<p>While Princeton isn't known for political activism, it's definitely not politically dormant. And yes, it a moderate (though left of center) university, which makes for interesting in-class and late-night discussion :)</p>
<p>one would think that UPENN isnt that really politically active</p>
<p>dcircle - MIT is actually REALLY liberal. I visited during admit weekend and MIT's administration as well as its students are amazingly liberal. Science and math lean quite left.</p>