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Pretty off base. If I had to put numbers to Rhodes, I’d say it’s about ~45% moderate, ~40% liberal, and ~15% conservative. Greek life is not taken very seriously (i.e. it’s pretty open and nonselective), and all frats and sororities are nonresidential.</p>
<p>Guilford is a nice Quaker school. Pretty accepting and tolerant but not a hippie school. UNCA’s reputation for hippie-ness is also vastly overblown, though the town itself straddles an odd line between upscale/gentrified and alternative/artsy. Warren Wilson is admittedly pretty hippie-ish. </p>
<p>I’m likely no familiar with the others than you are…I’ll grant you that many of the others have reputations for moderate or slightly conservative leanings. Most still have reasonably sized and vocal liberal elements, however. It’s the less selective colleges with a strong regional draw like Samford and Presby that have the most noticeable conservative elements, I think. Colleges like Agnes Scott, Eckerd, and U Richmond are much more moderate/liberal than they are credited for being and, as sally305 mentioned, are pretty similar to many LACs in other parts of the country.</p>