@Joblue would you say that example of your friend’s daughter rises to the level of “persecution” or “forced indoctrination?”
@Zinhead - perhaps that’s because Christians are plentiful and accepted at literally every college and there’s no recent history of Christians being denied basic rights in US society. That there appears to be a new “victim” narrative among some US Christians is a source of rich irony indeed.
To the OP: As your son is an Anglican, I’m quite sure he’ll find life at any top US school to be just fine and won’t be forced or indoctrinated in any way. There are significant Christian populations at literally every top US college. Every one. And there’s definitely no conspiracy (or even desire) to change that fact.
@zinhead I don’t think the issue is really tolerance of Christianity. There are plenty of Christian SJW’s. One of my D’s friends is gay, Republican/Libertarian, and wants to go into ministry. He’s very accepted for being gay and for being Christian. It’s his political views that make him unpopular.
Penn has a good number of conservatives because of the number of pre professional students. I don’t think they will challenge you on your beliefs unless he can’t tolerate people with other perspectives. For example, I am aware of a blow up this week because a conservative CS student decided to explain to a large group of CS students his view that women are not able to write CS programs because they don’t have penises.
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For example, a very conservative religious student is going to be having a very bad week next week after expressing to a CS group his view that women can’t code because they don’t have penises. In his club position he has subsequently begun rewriting code submitted by women because, well, they are women, so trying to get good code from them is pointless. Any issue with a man’s code is sent back to the man with questions for potential editing because they can code.
Haven’t read the whole thread, but where are the match or safety schools on this list? Literally every school is a reach. And OP says the family is conservative and Christian. Are you sure that is the kind of school the son wants?
What about the service academies?
Does he have an issue with coding in high level languages which compilers are used to convert to machine code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#UNIVAC
Political views starting from middle to right are not tolerated at most campuses these days. It is surprising to see so many campuses disowning freedom of speech by protesting any non-liberal speaker from entering campuses.
Practice of any religion is mostly possible on all campuses. I am always amazed to see Holi being celebrated on most college campuses and it is a festival of Hindus who are not a large group on most campuses but everyone seems to like throwing colors at everyone else.
The list is a very exclusive in terms of admit rates and it is very hard to get into most of the schools. If someone is a STEM kid in engineering classes, it is not like they are being asked to express their views in about 85% of their classes.
@texaspg , protesting is an exercise of freedom of speech, whether liberal or conservative.
This is untrue.
@NoVADad99 that’s not my experience as a former AF officer (USAFA grad) who worked with Navy and Army personnel.
Protesting is an exercise of freedom of speech. Blockading the entrance to a venue so that those who want to hear a speaker can’t get in, or pulling the fire alarm to drown out the speak, is suppression of speech.
@“Erin’s Dad” I worked with Army combat arms officers on the ARSTAF after leaving active duty, and the difference between those guys and my USAF experience was night and day. Granted I was in the non-rated community, and spent a lot of time with enlisted grunts. But I have run into very few Army officers that I would consider to be very religious or evangelical. Most were, shall we say, quite salty in their language and lived hard and played hard.
Some of those schools have a more left-leaning population, but they are pretty tolerant of people from different political viewpoints(at least the ones I’m familiar with). Of course there are always going to be bigots anywhere he goes, but the majority won’t be too pushy about his beliefs.
If you really want to go to school that has more of a conservative population, Texas A&M and Virginia tech are pretty conservative and also have very strong STEM programs.
“@ucbalumnus Does he have an issue with coding in high level languages which compilers are used to convert to machine code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#UNIVAC”
Apparently, he is not only very religiously conservative, but is also an international student from a country where womens’ rights are much more limited than in the US. Based on his comments, I am pretty sure he has no idea that Borat is supposed to be a comedy. He definitely messed with the wrong woman this week.
To the OP:
Your son will not be happy at any of those colleges. All of them have gay, lesbian, and transgender students. There is premarital sex. People smoke marijuana and get drunk. His roommate is likely to have condoms in the room.
With the values that you have, your son is best off going to a conservative Christian school like Liberty University or even Brigham Young University.
@brantly Yes, all of those things happen, but there are many students who do not do those things. There would be many students who are also conservative on most of those campuses.
@texaspg - “FIRE” is a partisan ideological astroturf group, funded by such delightful interest groups as “The John Templeton Foundation,” which “tries to encourage the integration of religious beliefs and free-market principles into the classroom.”
More “FIRE” funders:
[The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation](Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation - SourceWatch):
[The Sarah Scaife Foundation](Scaife Foundations - SourceWatch)
[url=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Castle_Rock_Foundation]Castle Rock Foundation/url.
[url=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations#Contributions_of_the_Claude_R._Lambe_Charitable_Foundation]The Claude R. Lamb Charitable Foundation/url.