<p>Unless your son is looking to adapt considerably I do NOT recommend Penn. To be quite honest. It would take a lot of adaptation.</p>
<p>I am sure by conservative he means a school that would rather read aristotle than central american poetry. As a paleoconservative I have done lots of research on finding a good conservative university. Here is a small list.</p>
<p>Sewanee (University Of The South)
Duke University
Vanderbilt University
Rhodes College
Trinity College
Colgate
Hampden-Sydney College
Washington & Lee
Wofford College
Roanoke College
Baylor University
Samford University (Dry Campus)</p>
<p>Duke, Holy Cross, Notre Dame,and Davidson- all great academic schools with very strong alumni networks.</p>
<p>My d is a freshman at Vanderbilt this year and she has found it to be very much a "work hard, play hard" school. You don't have to party, of course, but the prevailing expectation seems to be that you will.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt may well be more conservative than many other schools. However, I've read that a recent poll found the student body to be equally split between liberals and conservatives. I know there are active Democratic and feminist organizations on campus. When my d was making her mind up last spring, she happened upon an editorial in the student paper by a conservative student columnist decrying the liberal mindset on campus - that one surprised us. In 2004, Nashville and Davidson County went for Kerry.</p>
<p>Boston College has been recommended a few times. It's a terrific school, but the party scene is undeniably huge there.</p>