<p>Also known as SJWs.
I'm not particularly fond of these movements due to various school experiences. </p>
<p>Probably most of the more selective and residential ones, although at most of these, you can tune them out if you do not care about their causes.</p>
<p>Swarthmore, for sure. Turned my DS off in a big way. </p>
<p>So you want to avoid active radical social justice movements?</p>
<p>I agree with @ucbalumnus – such things are not likely to impinge on your life if you don’t seek them out. You’re unlikely to be trampled by a gay rights march as you’re walking to class. And although people could recommend to you schools that are more strait-laced and conservative, anyone could start up a social justice group at any of those schools any time – and it might be your roommate who decides to do it! You can’t predict these things.</p>
<p>Perhaps a heavily-commuter college where everyone goes home or to work right after class, and where most students major in pre-professional subjects, may be less prone to that kind of social activism.</p>
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<p>I disagree - dependent on school. At smaller selective schools, all but impossible to avoid. The campus and student areas are but so big. </p>
<p>There’s overlap in the list of the most annoying LACs and the most annoyingly SoJo:
<a href=“Help Us Pick America's Most Annoying Liberal Arts College”>http://gawker.com/280270/help-us-pick-americas-most-annoying-liberal-arts-college</a></p>
<p>I don’t agree that it’s equally easy to avoid the movement at every campus that has it. It’s not even equally easy at every small campus in the same reason. You can’t tune this out at Oberlin. You probably can at St. Olaf. Huge difference in culture.</p>
<p>Look for colleges that are focused on pre-professional studies (ie. STEM and/or Business), that have sizable commuter populations, or where Greek life is an important part of campus culture, if you are not attracted to overtly conservative, religious-affiliated colleges. Southern schools are less likely to have a left-leaning campus culture than Northern ones. A college like Claremont-McKenna has a conservative reputation, but that is only in context and by comparison with its larger, extremely liberal community. Its students are likely to be professionally ambitious. Most large universities outside the South will have a very broad range of students, and so you might find a range of political demonstrations competing with Greek-letter pledging and pep rallies for attention. So, in short, avoid Quaker colleges, heavily female campuses, explicitly progressive liberal arts colleges like Hampshire, Pitzer, Bennington, and New College of Florida . . . or go wherever you’re inclined, and don’t worry about the rest.</p>
<p>UCB for sure.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle - I suspect that a serious pre-medical or engineering student at Berkeley could manage to get through his or her day unmolested by “radical social justice activists.” I even bet that you could attend the Cal-Stanford football game without encountering too many, but only if you make the choice not to be bothered by people with different views. If the very sight of these rabble-rousers affects your delicate sensibilities, then you should probably avoid the Bay Area, if not the entire Left Coast.</p>
<p>Nothing personal. I mean historically UCB is known for this sort of radical movement. It tends to attract people who notice injustice and what not. </p>
<p>It’s not personal: that’s precisely what I mean when discussing a campus with more than 20k undergraduates. It gets at least as many freaks, geeks, and jocks as it does political activists of all leanings.</p>
<p>Yes but you’ll find less at other school like USC for example with the same number of students.</p>
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<p>And it is easily ignored if you are not interested.</p>
<p>IMO it would be far more helpful to make a list of colleges you’re interested in based on other factors and then eliminate those where the radical SJW activists are hard to ignore. It would also be helpful to list what you consider to be SJW causes. For instance at Emory, hardly a radical campus, there are some ideas, currently considered far left by the majority of right wing commentators, which are widely accepted. Other movements, including those which Tumblr is often mocked for promoting, are considered too absurd to be taken seriously by the majority of students. </p>