<p>^^</p>
<p>True to a point, but I do believe that Oberlin’s tends to have one of the most progressive and left-leaning student bodies compared to most colleges and universities, especially during my time there in the mid-late '90s. While students do experience being pulled in both right and left directions politically on most mainstream campuses, at Oberlin, the pull tends to be overwhelmingly to the left, especially during my time there. </p>
<p>In fact, I recalled one classmate who transferred from Berkeley to Oberlin because he felt Berkeley was “becoming too pre-professional and conservative” for his taste. </p>
<p>Moreover, most fellow Oberlin classmates who ended up at supposedly “liberal left” campuses such as Harvard, NYU, and Columbia for grad school felt the grad campuses were much more conservative than Oberlin. In fact, the ones at Columbia tend to laugh at how the mainstream media regards their grad campus as “left-leaning” as they tend to perceive Columbia’s student body…especially the undergrads on average as “right-leaning centrists with conservative tendencies”.</p>