<p>I was just thinking about this when I saw a post that said Harvard sucks because it's too conservative.</p>
<p>So basically, I want to know out of the top schools, some of which I'm considering and a lot that may not matter to me, but may benefit others for hearing, what respected schools do you think have a visibly tipped political scale? Which side?</p>
<p>Almost every top school minus the religiously affiliated ones have a liberal slant...Chicago and Penn seem to be economically conservative but thats pretty much it.</p>
<p>I think most of the top schools are moderate.</p>
<p>I know someone really conservative, went to Harvard, and was seriously unhappy there because the campus was too liberal.</p>
<p>But then, she came from a ultra-conservative family that wouldn't be caught dead voting Democrat, so her opinion doesn't reflect the majority of people's.</p>
<p>Wow, I have thought that the top schools were quite conservative by collegiate standards. Colleges as a whole are very liberal entities, so it's tough to find one that is TRULY conservative (BJU and its ilk aside). But I kind of see the breakdown like this:</p>
<p>CONSERVATIVE:
Princeton
Dartmouth
Wash U
Duke
Georgetown
UVA
Harvard
Yale
Penn
UT Austin<br>
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
U Chicago
UCLA
USC
Cornell</p>
<p>LIBERAL:
Berkeley
Brown
Stanford
...?</p>
<p>This isn't based on anything except stereotypes and my own perception, and in a few cases (WF, Berkeley, Vandy, Brown, Stanford, UVA, Dartmouth, Duke, UCLA, USC), visits.</p>
<p>No offense, but that list is ridiculous, lol.</p>
<p>Which ones would you move?</p>
<p>Nearly all universities are going to be liberal. This said, the "conservative" list up there is still very liberal.</p>
<p>There are some schools that are quite obviously liberal (Bard, Sarah Lawrence) or conservative (Grove City, Pensacola, Bob Jones). Very few, if any, would disagree on those. </p>
<p>But if a school's political orientation has arguments from both sides (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, etc.), I think it could be considered moderate. A moderate school could be considered either conservative or liberal, depending on the individual.</p>
<p>I don't think any of those schools is conservative, they are all moderate/liberal.</p>
<p>Most, if not all of the top schools are very liberal. Notable exceptions exsist. For example, I'd say Georgetown is on the whole conservative due to its Catholic affiliations. Princeton is perhaps the most conservative of the Ivies, but that really doesn't say much. I'd say most economics professors, UPenn and UChicago, will be slightly more conservative than the tree-huggers at Yale and Harvard. Also, this liberal slant to higher education isn't confined to the top tier schools. Alot of schools have a notable absence of conservative professors. Kenyon, Grinnell, Stanford, Berkley, Brown, even Duke and Vanderbilt (to a lesser extent) have liberal leanings. This is simply the case because most people who define themselves as conservative would rather pursue a life outside the Ivory Towers, whereas more liberal people seem inclinded to doan Academicals.</p>
<p>UT Austin is liberal</p>
<p>How could UT be liberal? It's in Texas. I mean, Austin is the most liberal part in Texas, but still.</p>
<p>Anyway, what's the best place for a liberal premed major? Assuming the only factors are prestige and a liberal environment.</p>
<p>the problem with calling a school like princeton conservative is that it is socially quite liberal. economically, however, schools with very affluent, conservative-dressing student bodies tend to be relatively moderate. so while these schools have many republicans for economic reasons, a vast majority of these republicans are actually more liberal than most democrats in this country.</p>
<p>as an aside, pennsylvania is a great state to demonstrate this phenomenon. the average republican in the philadelphia suburbs is actually more liberal than the average democrat just 100 miles away.</p>
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<p>Just because it's in a conservative area doesn't mean the school can't be liberal, there are a lot of liberal schools surrounded by conservatives.</p>
<p>UT-Austin is liberal compared to the rest of Texas and other state schools like A&M. Some kids at my school weren't allowed to apply to UT-Austin because it's "too liberal" according to their parents.</p>
<p>The Young America's Foundation recently listed the "Top</a> 10 Conservative Colleges" for 2005-2006, plus 5 Honorable Mentions. </p>
<p>Top 10:</p>
<p>Hillsdale College
Grove City College
Franciscan University
Indiana Wesleyan University
Thomas Aquinas College
College of the Ozarks
Liberty University
Patrick Henry College
Christendom College
Harding University </p>
<p>Honorable Mention:</p>
<p>Brigham Young University
St. Vincent College
Thomas More College
Regent University<br>
Kings College</p>
<p>It would be fair to suggest that most of these schools are not very widely recognized or particularly prestigious. I would suspect, for example, that there is not a great deal of interest in most of these schools here in the collegeconfidential.com forums.</p>
<p>True, most elite colleges are liberal institutions, just be design (education breeds liberalism).</p>
<p>NYU and Columbia are REALLY liberal. And don't even get me started on LAC's.</p>
<p>And BTW I'm really liberal myself.</p>
<p>semiserious,</p>
<p>UCLA is conservative? LOLZ. Seriously. LOLZ.</p>
<p>UCLA was one of Mother Jones' top 10 activist campuses.</p>