<p>A lot of schools, especially less selective ones or those with high commuter student populations, have relatively apolitical scenes, along with a higher proportion of students in preprofessional majors.</p>
<p>Many of the more overtly conservative colleges have a relatively heavy religious influence, and may be inappropriate for those not of the same religion. A few, like Hillsdale, are conservative but non-religious now (although Hillsdale was neither when it was founded before the Civil War, being affiliated then with an anti-slavery denomination and writing non-racial-discrimination in its charter).</p>
<p>The conservative-aligned <a href=“http://www.collegeguide.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.collegeguide.org</a> has red-yellow-green light ratings reflecting how truly conservative the raters think the college is. (Students looking for the opposite political alignment can just invert the traffic light ratings.)</p>