“My daughter is at Vassar, and by any normal definition is pretty liberal. She is on the conservative end of the spectrum at Vassar (or at least so it appears to her so far). But the particular flavor of liberalism at Vassar was palatable to her, while there were other schools (Brown in particular) where the style of liberal/progressive politics on that campus was a big turn off.”
As an example, my daughter at Penn is definitely liberal, but she is annoyed by students who want to protest every silly thing. She thinks it devalues protests over bigger issues. Thankfully, Penn students tend to be a lot like her. This pragmatic approach also has allowed her to have a couple of good friends who are conservative and I think that is a good thing. They just don’t discuss politics.