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<li>religious schools like BYU, Bob Jones, Liberty, etc. Not even schools with laid-back affiliations like Georgetown, ND, etc.</li>
<li>conservative schools or those with a strong conservative element like UVA, Duke, etc.</li>
<li>rural schools</li>
<li>Southern schools in general (for the first two reasons; I can’t imagine being in a Bible-thumping, Republican/conservative/red state, even if the school itself isn’t that way)</li>
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<p>So for me, the ideal is a suburban or urban school with no religious affiliation and a liberal population (professors, students, and local residents). I would say that LACs aren’t for me because of their size, but that doesn’t make me adamantly opposed to them. Swarthmore would be a great school, even though there are lots of other larger schools that I’d prefer to attend.</p>